Austin-based interior designer Annie Downing agrees that earthy colors are in. One particular shade she loves? Yellowish-orange ochre. “It brings a sunbaked, lived-in quality to a room and pairs beautifully with both antiques and modern pieces,” Downing says.
Red
Photo: Anson Smart, Courtesy of Flack Studio
Multiple designers said that red and burgundy are favorites of theirs that are likely to pop up in many interiors this year. Downing is a fan of true, “bright, confident red,” she says, adding that this year, “I think we’ll see more bravery with color overall: fewer ‘safe’ choices, more personality.”
Lemon-vanilla
Photographed by Or Harpaz, Architectural Digest, June 2023
Lemon-vanilla is a way to use white in a softer way, and to accentuate the bolder and darker colors in the mix. Flack says he loves a 1950s-inspired, light yellow, machine-like shade for something surprising. “I love a neutral with a slight weird undertone of color through it, i.e. a pink, white, a lemon white or even a muddy brown white.”