
Flipping through the recent issue of Home & Design magazine, we came across this brightly colored home in Great Falls, Virginia. The owners used a muted palette of black, gray, and white decor to show off their accessories and artwork, which are mostly blue, red, yellow, and green. More photos below the jump...






Feels quite late 80's or early 90's. Nice home though.
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The title is almost halfway on it way to being misspelt Great Falls, Vagina
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The colors are too basic and all the same saturation level. It lacks visual interest.
~Lorrie @ MyDesignSecrets.com
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yuck
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Way too 80's. Not a fan.
view Claire K's profile
Big fan of primary colours. However, not a huge fan of the styling, especially the artwork and accessories. It feels so... dated...
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Bruno chairs in those colors make me squirm. Very dated in a bad way. The house looks nice a good canvas.
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Have the article in front of me. Read it a couple of weeks ago and my thoughts reflect everyone elses. Looks so '90s to me and the primary colors of everything make it look like a Pre School classroom. Architecturally though, it is awesome. It just needs a new decorator.
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I have to agree with Geno B here. I, too, am a big fan of primary colors, but there's something that's not working for me here. Maybe it's because the homeowner is trying to work every primary color in his/her design. For example, rather than multi color chairs, I would have kept the chairs all one color. But then again, that's just a personal preference.
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I like the concept. The colors are a little too crayola, but the same idea would make me stile with shades of peacock blue, lime green and magenta. I do like the shadowbox artwork piece on the wall though. And the large vases on the sideboard in the dining room. Those seem timeless to me.
And I think they should beef up that light above the dining room table. Thats a great spot for a beautiful, oversized, modern colored crystal chandelier.
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***make me smile
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i'm such a purest, i hate seeing those lovely brno chairs looking like a box of crayons.
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When I see something like this that evokes specific feelings in a number of viewers/commenters (primary school, crayons, 80's) I wonder whether the owner and designer intended those effects or whether they just don't see it in the same way. It's hard to believe anyone would deliberately expend this kind of careful effort to make their home look like a dated romper room.
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These colors never fail to make something look more like a nursery school than anything else.
@ amed studio, that is a very interesting idea that you wonder. I see designs on here sometimes where everyone is very pleased with the result, and I am swallowing my urge to say it looks like a big can of static guard, for example. Just for example! Then again, I didn't get as big a yuck reaction to the 80s Kelly Wearstler things posted fairly recently. They weren't Oh My God awful in the way that most posters expressed, just a little on the airbrushed side, fairly mild actually. The real 80s are going to be revived and everyone will be all out of adjectives and onomatopoeias.
Anyway, primary colors (I guess if we have to include green) just look so juvenile together, especially if we're mixing up the colors of our chairs and pillows, even steven, fair and square style. That dining room serves pb&j with the crusts cut off and e-z bake oven cakes for dessert. These sofas are for scheduled afternoon naps and you will get no graham crackers and juice if you don't stay down for at least 30 minutes! Ssshhhhhh!
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not my favorite.
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