My Interior Design client downsized from a home with 10' ceilings and grand proportions to a workman's cottage of only 4 rooms, with a kitchen tacked on later to make 5. So why not make this adventure fun, and turn lost grandeur into present playfulness?
The ornate ceiling cornice of the former house became in this new home a row of multi-coloured Itten squares, turned on their ends. But why stop there? Each room varied the bright colours of these Itten forms, but they all harmonized since their shapes remained the same. I went one step further for her, gluing dime-store red, blue and yellow "crystals" between the squares leading up to the master bedroom.
Another unifying element became the collection of art by Awalay, aka Hollis Baptiste, hung throughout the house. Art need not always be hung on gallery-white walls! In the dining room, a simple floor canvas was made using the same motifs, in again, a different colour combination.
Bright colours are here to stay for the foreseeable future. Beauty is free, and colour is most certainly free.
