Barbara has written professionally for more than two decades. In the past five years, she has specialized in creating real estate and home improvement content. Besides writing for Forbes Home, she ...

Kristin is a lead editor at Forbes Home and has nearly a decade of professional experience as a writer and editor. She's previously worked at sites like Talking Points Memo, Insider, Delish, Angi and ...

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Color harmony, meaning the principle of colors working well together, is a significant component of design. Architects, designers and specifiers must strategically consider how colors will interact in ...

Throughout our homes most of us will have particular rooms earmarked as spaces we go when we want to feel a certain way. It might be that your bedroom soothes an overstimulated mind, your living room ...

Nostalgia is a popular buzzword in the interior design world. Whether it's a shade of faded yellow paint that reminds you of your mom's kitchen cabinets or a retro green sofa that takes you back to a ...

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 heavily impacts every moment of our lives: the clothing we wear, the décor in our home, the car we drive, the offices we work in. It impacts our mood, influences our behavior, and can even ...

A while back, I used an app to figure out if I was a deep winter, cool summer, clear spring, or warm autumn. Like many others, I hoped it would help me avoid colors that wash me out and find those ...