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Article: True colors.(interior decoration)
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- House Beautiful
- Article date:
- May 1, 1998
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"It was all I could do to keep myself from going over to help!" said color expert Donald Kaufman. "I was in a paint store watching a young couple painstakingly choose a blue. I wanted to tell them, Go two shades darker and two shades grayer to get what you want." Most of us have never heard of this standard rule. Darkening and dulling the shade counteracts the intensification that occurs when the color is reflected back and forth from wall to wall.
I was having lunch with colorists Kaufman and Taffy Dahl and their colleague Suzanne Butterfield to discuss Butterfield's new book, Color Palettes, which is rich in such practical advice. The agony of choosing the ...