Working on the design for a townhouse in a suburb of San Francisco, my first step was to simplify and unify the wall colors.  I went with Benjamin Moore’s Baby’s Breath (OC-62).  I love how this paint works almost anywhere – it can look grey, light blue, and even white (but it’s more interesting than white).  The color works with almost any color combination.  We used it all over the house. Click here to GET THIS LOOK.

Above is one corner of the townhouse before I got started.  Every wall was a different, unrelated color.  While paint may seem like an easy route to an interesting interior design, especially when furntiure and scale can be more complicated, so many people overuse the priviliege of a paint brush.