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  1. 2024 Horoscopes: The Best Paint Color for Every Zodiac Sign Get ready for a massive transformation. We’ll let you decide if it’s your personality or your paint color. Either way, 2024 is shaping up to be one for the history books. Planet of transformation, Pluto is back in the sign that governs people, Aquarius until September 1st. It will have one last cameo in Capricorn and shimmy back into Aquarius where it will stay until March 2043! Pluto in Aquarius will bring much needed changes to humanity. It won’t feel like a cakewalk, but trust that it is f...
  2. How Painting a Ceiling Black Can Turn Your Bedroom into the Cozy Cocoon of Your Dreams When it comes to painting a bedroom, what colors come to mind? Classic, a timeless greige, or Cloud Watching, a sky blue, are tranquil paint picks. But artist and Clare Collective ambassador Lauren Hom is always a fan of tapping into more daring hues. For her friend and fellow artist, Meg Lewis, Lauren crafted a one-of-a-kind bedroom design, which included painting a ceiling black and using punchy, vivid colors around the ceiling rail for a personality-filled space. For the design, Meg’s work...
  3. How to Use Cool and Warm Paint Colors to Create Your Ideal Vibe When it comes to establishing the mood of a room, nothing makes more of an impact than color. And the key to understanding the feeling a specific color evokes in a space lies in the concept of color temperature, which categorizes colors as warm or cool, depending on where they fall on the spectrum.One is not better than the other—and in fact, most spaces have a combination of both warm and cool elements to create beautiful nuance and balance. We’re breaking down what it all means and how to u...
  4. Color Drenching: What It Is, Why Designers Use It and How to Do It Right Calling all color lovers: if you’re craving an unapologetically bold, maximalist vibe at home, color drenching is your moment. This design approach wraps an entire room (walls, ceiling, trim, doors, even built-ins) in a single hue, creating a rich, monochromatic canvas that feels equal parts cozy and elevated. While it’s having a major moment right now, color drenching is anything but fleeting. It’s a timeless technique that works across styles, from classic to contemporary, and instantly tr...
  5. Have a Nook or Small-Space Laundry Room? These Ideas Will Help You Make the Most of It No matter how big or how small the home, there are always nooks, crannies, and smaller-than-ideal rooms that pose unique challenges. Perhaps it’s an unexplainable alcove in the bedroom, a bathroom layout that doesn’t make much sense, or a storage space that just doesn’t seem to store enough. We’ve all been there. Even interior designer and Clare Collective ambassador Hema Persad has had to troubleshoot tough-to-design spots and spaces. Take her sister’s hallway and her own laundry room, for e...
  6. Inside a Warm, Cozy Living Room and its Colorful Dining Room Counterpart Plenty of people prefer the ease and brightness of a crisp white room, and for good reason. It’s an easy pick-me-up for a dated, run-down vibe, the perfect backdrop for showcasing an art collection and easy on the eyes. On the other hand, a bold pop of color on the walls immediately turns a simple room into a statement. Plus it’s the quickest (and most affordable!) way to change the entire mood of a space. So why choose one over the other? This cozy living room and dining room duo by interior...
  7. Modern Home Design Ideas Give this Classic Brooklyn Brownstone a Fresh New Look There comes a point during the home-buying process where you need to start believing in kismet. It was this twist of fate that led Anna Greenberg, an iconic yoga and meditation instructor for Peloton, to cross paths with Clare Collective ambassadors and renovation pros The Brownstone Boys. As it turns out, Barry Bordelon, one half of the duo, was the selling agent on a brownstone she was interested in that had been converted into a multi-unit space in Brooklyn. “Anna was familiar with our wor...
  8. From Outdated to Awe-Inspiring: Inside a Modern Living Room with a Classic Spin When it comes to design, some things are best left in the past. At least, that was the case with stylist and Clare Collective ambassador Ashley Whiteside’s latest project: a renovation in Oklahoma City on a family home that’s been virtually untouched since it was built in the 90s. While it had excellent bones—and especially beautiful millwork—the home had a lot of details that made it feel dated, like pickled glazing and lots of dark wood. Together with her longtime clients, it was time to br...
  9. Love a Boldly Beautiful Look? Then You’ll Love this Cool Bedroom Design Because it’s the place where we’re meant to wind down, bedrooms don’t always enjoy the same level of experimentation that other rooms in the home do. Most of us are more likely to lean into neutrals—especially when it comes to the walls—but in this lush and cool bedroom design, interior designer and Clare Collective ambassador Hema Persad makes the case for going bold. Below, her best advice for color-drenching a bedroom and making this statement look work in any space. Before After Create ...
  10. Create the Ultimate Guest Bedroom Design with These Cozy Hues When it comes to working with color, Clare Collective ambassador and interior designer Orlando Soria doesn’t shy away. His Yosemite rental cabin, nicknamed the Londo Lodge, is filled with a myriad of hues, some quite surprising for a woodsy getaway. While the exterior features a deep navy, Goodnight Moon, an elevated pick for the once-beige facade, inside Orlando opted for cheerful, saturated tones. The guest bedroom design features wall-to-wall Wing It, our dreamy light pink, plus nightstand...
  11. Bring Your Space from Old to Bold with these Colorful Kitchen Renovation Styles “My favorite thing is to bring life to a space that others might deem hopeless,” says stylist and Clare Collective ambassador Ashley Whiteside, who recently reunited with longtime clients to give their dated 90s-built Oklahoma City home a full-scale renovation. The home—and particularly the kitchen—boasted all the trappings typical to the decade, like dark wood details, carpeting, beige tile and super-shiny brass finishes. But where others might see a daunting project, Ashley and her clients ...
  12. Neutrals, Who? Here’s How to Bring in a Pop of Color with Painted Trim When it comes to infusing spaces with color, stylist and Clare Collective ambassador Ashley Whiteside is pretty much a pro. Which is why client Katherine called upon Ashley to refresh a room off the entry of her young family’s home—a project she hadn’t had time to give attention to after moving in two years prior. Intended to be used as a music room and sitting area for guests, the space was essentially a beige box, but one with good bones, great natural light and tons of potential. In other ...
  13. Why a Beige Living Room Works Wonders in this NYC Apartment We love neutrals as much as the next person, but we have to admit a beige living room isn’t exactly groundbreaking. But with the right shade and finishing touches, beige can appear warm, welcoming, and—yep, we’re saying it—exciting. That’s exactly the vibe the Brownstone Boys’ Jordan Slocum and Barry Bordelon wanted to create when development company TF Cornerstone asked the duo to create a showroom model for its new Brooklyn apartment complex, 595 Dean Street. Before “Something that Barry...
  14. Create Your Dream WFH Space with These Home Office Paint Colors When it comes to your ideal work-from-home setup, you want to create a space that’s equal parts pretty and practical—one that inspires you to dial in, be productive and get stuff done. One of the easiest ways to give your workspace that extra oomph is with a fresh coat of paint, which will immediately make it feel fresh and like a space you’ll actually enjoy spending time in.Here, we’ll walk you through a few of our favorite home office paint colors to help you create the WFH space of your dr...
  15. A Two-Tone Approach Gives this Green Bedroom a Vibrant New Life When it comes to color, graphic designer, artist and Clare Collective ambassador Lauren Hom doesn’t shy away from the bold and the bright. This is a philosophy she even extends to rentals—and in this case, the space she’s temporarily staying in while completing a one-year culinary program in New York City. To bring a little life into her new bedroom, which she’s renting from a friend who also lives in the apartment, she turned to a duo of delicious greens—Extra Virgin and Daily Greens—to crea...
  16. An Unexpected Periwinkle Makes the Perfect Color for This Bathroom What does every color–curious homeowner want for Valentine’s Day? A bold color for the bathroom, of course—or at least that’s what happened when Clare Collective ambassadors Jordan Slocum and Barry Bordelon put the finishing touches on their Brooklyn-based brownstone. When the couple purchased their Bed–Stuy home in 2018—and launched their blog, Brownstone Boys, which has since turned into a full-time design and renovation business—they wanted to update their home without erasing the building...