Look! Primary Color Scheme in Great Falls, Virginia Home Home & Design, October 2008

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...

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What do you think of this color combination?

[Photos by Lydia Cutter.]

Comments (14)

Feels quite late 80's or early 90's. Nice home though.

The title is almost halfway on it way to being misspelt Great Falls, Vagina

The colors are too basic and all the same saturation level. It lacks visual interest.

~Lorrie @ MyDesignSecrets.com

Big fan of primary colours. However, not a huge fan of the styling, especially the artwork and accessories. It feels so... dated...

Bruno chairs in those colors make me squirm. Very dated in a bad way. The house looks nice a good canvas.

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.

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.

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.

i'm such a purest, i hate seeing those lovely brno chairs looking like a box of crayons.

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.