Using White As Your Central Colour
Celebrities are undeniable fashion and style icons, and this spills over into interior design as well. In fact in a recent survey done by the BBC, over half of people who were doing up their home, looked at what the rich and famous were doing in theirs first. But of course it is rarely the celebrities themselves that come up with the designs or concepts, instead leaving the task up to professionals.
An interior designer to some of Hollywood’s biggest stars has told one newspaper that people wanting to create an impressive room can structure their design around a centerpiece, such as a piece of white bedroom furniture. Usually this is quite a large piece such as big white wardrobes, and it can afford to be as it is a neutral colour. If you did the same with a red or green centre piece for example, it would dictate the colour scheme of the rest of the room.
Kelly Wearstler told the Daily Mail that a big, bold centrepiece can provide inspiration and ideas for the rest of a room’s design, such as the bedside table or curtain design, and said that she loves the use of white and black to create contrast.Wearstler is one of many designers who use the black/white contrast in their work, a movement that finds its roots in the 80’s but has seen a resurgence of late.
She said “I have such fun playing around with whites and blacks as they can be fitted in to any design you think of. It’s the textures and materials that make it interesting.” She noted that a number of her clients have been amazed at just how much more they got from a once ‘nothing’ room, just by using simple contrasting black and whites.
The last point from Wearstler was that a room can often become “confused” when it is over-designed and keeping the colour clean prevents this happening. Its not a simple thing to get right, but if youre strict with the colors you use, you can pull off a very sleek look.
