How do you ensure visual cohesion from room to room?

I always start with one room, usually the "main event," a living room, guest room or family room. Then build out the adjacent spaces from there. Finite spaces, bedrooms or others, can be individual events.

If going with classic white colour on trim, moldings and ceilings, what do you use?

Decorator's White OC-149 is my current favourite, and for many years I loved Mayonnaise OC-85.

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What are your favourite colours for interiors? Exteriors?

White Dove OC-17, especially from trim. It has lots of character, and it's not too bright, nor too gray. Lancaster White OC-144 is always an exterior favourite.

Are there any new and inspiring ways that colour has impacted your design work?

We recently completed a project in Miami for a family obsessed with colour. The architecture of the residence flowed from room to room without any "breaks." So we left all the walls a crisp white, but painted wide, horizontal bands of colour to set off the various rooms. For example, we painted a swath of bright orange in the living room beneath one of their paintings—such fun!

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What is your favourite colour for interiors? Exteriors?

Without a doubt, Benjamin Moore White Dove OC-17, which I find works beautifully in every space.

What are your favourite colours for clients?

Each of my projects is quite different from the next, but I personally always find myself circling back to moss green and berry tones.

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