Window & Wall Ideas - Summer 2005

The Sunny Side

Window & Wall Ideas
Summer 2005

The Sunny Side

Color and texture reign supreme in Tammy and Paul Koonce’s Richmond, Virginia, house. Follow decorative artist Sunny Goode’s guidelines for making your house a similar work of art.

Choose your colors. “Pick whatever is going to dictate (your) colors-whether it’s a fabric or rug – and go from there,” Goode says. “Maybe choose three colors as inspiration. Then use shades of those colors throughout. Then it really works. That’s the rule of thumb.” Tammy selected shades of red, yellow, and green for her home, balancing them throughout the main level.

Add depth. Try coating textured wall coverings with paint and then a glaze to bring out the highs and lows of the pattern. “I think what’s nice nice about doing the glaze on that wallpaper is that you don’t walk in and go, ‘Oh these rooms are glazed.’ They’re dramatic, but not obvious,” Goode says.

Be judicious. Reserve daring colors for nonliving spaces. “You love to see it, buy you don’t have to live in it,” says Goode, who has a hot-pink hallway in her own home. “It’s a good place to make a statement and then go more subtle off of that.”

Age gracefully. Apply an aging treatment, as Goode did to the mantel in the living room, for an elegant touch with little effort. “That didn’t take any time, maybe 30 minutes,” Goode says. “That’s a great way to add color.”