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Crayola Colored Woodwork

January 27, 2016 by Jane F 3 Comments

crayola colored woodwork - corner of a living room with a gray french door and chartreuse painted trim - House Beautiful via AtticmagChartreuse windows and bordeaux red door frames show how far crayola colored woodwork can go.

Top New York designer Jeffrey Bilhuber must have been inspired by his 8-year old son judging from the crayola colored woodwork he used in a New Jersey farm house. The home was featured for its colorfest qualities in the February issue of House Beautiful. Sprawling, imaginative and chock full of patterns and interactive hues, it is nothing short of flamboyant. Most interesting to me, however, was all the color on the woodwork: windows and frames painted chartreuse or violet, door casings gone purple, and a staircase with green balusters. I was immediately reminded of my 2010 post on Wild Color Woodwork. This house moves the wild dial to wilder.

Benjamin Moore paint colors are used throughout. In a corner of the living room [top] the walls are painted in a pale historic blueish green called Woodlawn Blue (HC-147) which, against the strong fuchsia (Malabar’s Tabia) fabric on the sofa and the the bright red (Malabar Carom) curtains looks neutral. But check out the casing above the gray-painted french doors. That’s Brookside Moss (2145-30)  a chartreuse green that reaches out from the window to curtains in a similar yellow-green nearby.

crayola colored woodwork - staircase in a house by Jeffrey Bilhuber with red carpet, chartreuse balusters and gray posts - House Beautiful via AtticmagI’ve seen lavender used as a neutral but making chartreuse function like that is another story. On a staircase, Brookside Moss appears on the balusters while an unspecified dark gray is used on the stringer, handrails and posts. A predominately red striped Patterson, Flynn and Martin carpet covering the treads and risers, making you want to skip down the stairs whistling because it feels so childlike. Wildest of all are the two-tone baseboards that frame the floors with a pop of acid color — chartreuse on the bottom and dark gray on top. It’s difficult to tell whether there actual moldings or they are just painted on.

crayola colored woodwork - purple wall library with Bordéaux Red trim by Jeffrey Bilhuber - House Beautiful via AtticmagI had the pleasure of meeting and interviewing Jeffrey Bilhuber while I was a contributing write at AOL. I know him to be a serious and immensely talented person. He was clearly giving these clients a rule-breaking house. Purple library walls (Wolf-Gordon’s Bonaire vinyl in Orchid) coordinate with Benjamin Moore’s Bordéaux [sic] Red (1465) on the doorway trim and crown molding. That paint color is a dead ringer for an ancient shade of Revlon nail polish called Windsor and not likely because the Queen of England had anything to do with it. I adore the golden ‘antelope’ print carpet.

crayola color woodwork - master bedroom with chartreuse woodwork in a house by Jeffrey Bilhuber - House Beautiful via AtticmagMost riotous of all is the master bedroom where walls are painted in Colony Green (694), a pale Easter eggy color, with Brookside Moss again on the windows. “I get so tired of windows that look like bars in a cell and make me feel trapped inside a house. I often end up painting them green, to blend in with the landscape,” Bilhuber stated. In this house, the landscape feels like it was brought indoors and filled in with colors pulled from a 120-piece box of crayons. Such fun.

(Source: House Beautiful)

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Filed Under: Color Tagged With: Bordeaux Red woodwork, Brookside Moss green woodwork, crayola colored woodwork, House Beautiful, Jeffrey Bilhuber, Malabar fabrics, Schumacher Kasari Ikat fabric, wild colored woodwork, Wolf-Gordon Bonaire vinyl wallcovering

Comments

  1. Natasha says

    January 28, 2016 at 8:06 pm

    Such fun! I adore acidic yellow and greens too. Seeing the chartreuse here with purples and reds- yowza- I cut cut my caffein intake by half. Thank you for the great piece.

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  2. Natasha says

    January 28, 2016 at 8:07 pm

    Oooops that should say could cut- not cut twice. Too much caffeine today perhaps …

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  3. Deb says

    January 29, 2016 at 7:38 am

    I noted the color on the walls called Woodlawn Blue, because I am looking for a pale blue. Love the bold colors elsewhere!

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