As designer Lauren Gilberthorpe points out, 'There is a growing confidence in how designers are mixing patterns, with an ...

Looking for fun ways to design a space? Then why not consider fun color combinations. Instead of focusing on one color, consider “mixing it up” by blending various colors to create fun combinations.

The color wheel was first developed by English mathematician and physicist Sir Isaac Newton, who discovered that white light (what we perceive as colorless daylight) is composed of a spectrum of ...

Color – how and when to use it – is one of the more challenging dilemmas faced by many homeowners. For designers, education, training and some experimentation often yield the ideal result. But how ...

I flip through a lot of home design books in this job. Frankly, most run together. In fact, collectively, they could all be one big beautiful book of homes. However, “Design Happy ─ Colorful Homes for ...

While interior designers are generally all for taking risks with color, there are a few color combinations in particular that they're not at all excited about and would rather see people avoid ...

Lauren Ro is interested in baby gear (she’s a new mom) and the ins-and-outs of decorating a home. Prior to the Strategist, she was a writer at Curbed, and before that was Wes Anderson’s assistant.