3 Unexpected Ways to Decorate with Color

My name's David Netto,

and I would love to show you a beautiful beach house.

I'll tell you about the first idea I had for this house

on the main floor where we are divide it into zones.

A way that I did that was to paint the floors light blue

in the living room, dining room,

and a couple spaces upstairs.

Around us, in this little slice, which is dark

I thought that if we painted it this kind

of deep purplish midnight blue that it would feel

like you had walked out and you were under the night sky

between two separate buildings.

Sometimes you actually get more out of using less color.

And you don't want it to be the main gesture.

We're in a white room, but these Joseph Albers tables

deliver a lot of impact for something that's small,

and they don't distract from the fact

that it's supposed to be a light in the break room.

One of the prettiest combinations that you can ever do

yellow and blue go beautifully together.

You see the blue Gio Ponti tiles.

What I didn't know I was going to end up doing

was this incredible egg yolk colored breakfast table

which was made in London, and it's made for a yacht.

Every big house deserves one good cozy night time room

which should usually be dark.

That's sort of the way we handled this little room

which is the library, obviously.

It had certain things going for it like this bay window

which is sort of interesting, and we modeled the sofa

to pick up a little bit of the curve of that.

Then these incredible Joseph Hoffman

Vienna succession chairs.

I did this room with my own daughter,

who was I think 11 at the time,

and she picked all the colors and the patterns.

And I organized them and got the room done that way.

So it's actually room by one child for another child.

We decided to take a room that was near the pool

and turn it into a cabana.

I think that that was the perfect invitation to do a lot

of strong patterns against stark white boards

like these pillows and the saturated rich colors

of these photographs.

My feeling about this project was that you were never

going to out decorate the beauty of nature.

After all the pretty rooms we did my favorite part is still

the natural site and the fact that the light next

to the ocean is the most beautiful in the world.