You mastered blue-and-white long ago and are ready for the next crop of bold, fabulous, and truly inspiring color pairings. How many of these are you brave enough to try?
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1Media Platforms Design Team
Mint Green + Pale Pink
To bring a feeling of nature into a New York living room, designer Fawn Galli used a custom minty green: "I don't think a color should be too saturated or strong on a wall." Pal + Smith chairs in a cheetah print — Safari by Manuel Canovas — with a Paley sofa from Profiles, a Fiona Curran Palette carpet for the Rug Company, and a painting by Anne Siems give the room "a sense of storybook fantasy."
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2Media Platforms Design Team
Ruby Red + Turquoise
Nick Olsen designed a Moorish arched headboard in shiny red leather with lavender piping to contrast with the bedroom's matte walls in Fine Paints of Europe Eurolux Interior Matte in Navy Blue. A Directoire-style desk doubles as a night table. Vintage chair covered in a suede from Global Leathers. Bed linens, Frette.
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3Media Platforms Design Team
Pale Green + Bubblegum Pink
Color on the ceilings life the eye up making a room seem taller, hence bigger. Jamie Drake opted for Benjamin Moore's I Love You Pink to contrast the Grace Kelly green scheme throughout the two-bedroom Manhattan apartment.
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4Media Platforms Design Team
Orange + Pink
"It would have been a sad little attic-like space if we didn't make an effort to turn it into a super-groovy teenage girl's room," designer Katie Maine says of the space in a Newport Beach, California, house. She and designer Jason Maine swathed the room in Brunschwig's Bombay wallpaper, custom-printed on Mylar. Bed and canopy by Maine Design. Vintage suzani bedcovering from Yurdan. Moravian start light, Visual Comfort.
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5Media Platforms Design Team
Purple + Red
The velvet-covered banquette serves as plush seating at the dining table, draped in purple burlap from Elegant Fabrics. Designer David Kaihois' three-year-old daughter sits in the red Tripp Trapp high chair by Stokke.
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6Media Platforms Design Team
Teal + Copper
In a kitchen designed by Philip Gorrivan, iridescent mosaic tiles and a ceiling lacquered in Benjamin Moore's Oceanic Teal pick up a color from the wallpaper in the hallway. Thonet barstools by York Street Studio. Roman shades in Homer wool in Verdigris by Gorrivan by Highland Court.
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7Media Platforms Design Team
Royal Purple + Pale Blue
In a room designed by Nick Olsen, a Mexican serape is an unexpected upholstery choice for a Louis XV–style chair. The vintage blanket inspired the apartment's vibrant color scheme. Lavender wool felt by Holland & Sherry. Sofa pillows in pale blue Satin La Tour by Brunschwig & Fils. The love seat's white twill slipcover piped in green is echoed in Super White doors trimmed in Amazon Moss. Walls are Ocean Spray. All paint by Benjamin Moore.
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8Media Platforms Design Team
Bright Red + Bright Yellow
"The dining chairs and kitchen stools are a typical bamboo Chippendale style, but in high-gloss lacquer they're surprising," designer Jesse Carrier says. "It's like they're candy-coated." The yellow glaze for the walls was inspired by the backsplash tile by Popham Design. The kitchen cabinets are original, but the countertops were updated with Caesarstone quartz. The warm patina of Circa Lighting's Goodman Hanging Lamps in antique brass adds contrast to all the bright colors.
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9Media Platforms Design Team
Orchid + Gold
In a home designed by Miles Redd, the daughter's room is done in Lyford Trellis wallpaper by China Seas.
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10Media Platforms Design Team
Pink + Kelly Green
Designers Todd Nickey and Amy Kehoe brought a punch of color to the kitchen by painting the island a rich green — Benjamin Moore's Jade Green.
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11Media Platforms Design Team
Lime Green + Pale Pink
"We wanted the dining room to be a graceful, elegant jewel box that glows in candlelight," Murphy says. She wrapped the room in Stark's luminous Corean wallpaper, hand-painted on a silk ground. Hickory Chair's Linwood side chairs in silver-leaf finish and mirrored fixtures from Worlds-Away enhance the shimmery mood. Karim Ghidinelli painting.
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12Media Platforms Design Team
Purple + Bright Yellow
"We designated an entrance simply by painting a small outlined square just inside the front door," designer David Kaihoi says. He made the four collages with glossy paper cut out of magazines.
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13Media Platforms Design Team
Orange + Green
Nursery walls are upholstered in Marimekko's playful African Kuningatar in a New York City loft decorated by Steven Sclaroff.
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14Media Platforms Design Team
Kelly Green + Bright Red
"I love the hard geometry of the chest next to the frilly curtains," Nick Olsen says. To add a soft touch to the metal Heimdal bed from Ikea, he slipcovered a length of foam in Schumacher's Hong Kong for a headboard. Duvet cover and pillow shams by Schweitzer Linen. Because of their large scale, Mercury glass lamps from Circa Lighting make an impact. They're set on vintage end tables originally brown, Olsen repainted them a bright Chinese red, "because every room needs a touch of red."
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15Media Platforms Design Team
Pale Green + Purple
In 12-year-old Cece Bette's Cape Cod bedroom by designer Annie Selke, a Victorian bed from Annie Selke Home collection for Vanguard Furniture is upholstered in Seema from Calico Corners. Pine Cone Hill quilt and pillows. Walls are painted Fresh Cut Grass by Benjamin Moore. "We started with a happy green base and added pink, orange, and aqua," says Selke.
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16Media Platforms Design Team
Yellow + Turquoise
"Mid-century modernism resonates for me," says designer Jonathan Adler, who paired Warren Platner's 1966 dining table from Design Within Reach with his own Chinese Chippendale chairs. The chandelier is from the 1970s.
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17Media Platforms Design Team
Lavender + Chartreuse
Lavender, chartreuse, and aqua make a happy color combination in a Scarsdale, New York, living room. "They're bold colors," says designer Pat Healing, "so I used them only as punctuation." Bird's Nest Cocktail Table by HB Home; Campion chandelier, Urban Electric.
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I’m the Senior Editor of VERANDA.com, and you’ll also find me on our sister sites ELLEDECOR.com and Housebeautiful.com. I own far too many throw pillows, and dream of leaving my Brooklyn rental behind for a home I can wallpaper lavishly. Have a suggestion for the site (or for my dream home’s wallpaper)? I’d love to hear it via Twitter!
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