Every room already has colours it cannot change — the floor, the walls, the timber. This is what those grounds will take: which pieces already on the property can be carried in, and where nothing here will do, what colour to go looking for.
Part one is about moving what exists. Pick a room and its ground is already decided for you. What is left is the choosing: a piece for the wall and a piece for the room. The strip across the top of each set reads left to right in that order, so you are looking at the finished room as one palette rather than as four separate swatches. Band widths are roughly how much of the room each colour accounts for — the ground is most of what you see.
Part two is for the shop floor. Some things this property needs do not exist here yet. Each target names a colour that is already in the building, the object it came off, and what to look for — material, scale, and what to walk away from. Nothing proposed anywhere in this document is impossible: equipment bolted into a rack, built-in shelving, poured counters and floors were measured for their colour and are never offered as things to move. Heavy pieces are only offered for the room they already stand in. Interior textiles are never sent outdoors.
Yellow Room HP Tapestry sits a clear step off the ground without fighting it. DeKor Couch sits a clear step off the ground without fighting it.
Live Room Drapery Fabric sits a clear step off the ground without fighting it. Instr - Gretsch Drumkit reads as the accent — it is the thing you notice.
Green Room Back Wall Tapestry sits a clear step off the ground without fighting it. Red Room Desk Wood Grain sits a clear step off the ground without fighting it.
Pendleton Common Brown Blanket sits a clear step off the ground without fighting it. Fender P Bass in Burnt Red reads as the accent — it is the thing you notice.
Live Room Rug 1 sits a clear step off the ground without fighting it. Furniture - Orange Stool sits a clear step off the ground without fighting it.
Yellow Room Oil Painting sits a clear step off the ground without fighting it. Log Cabin Ottoman sits a clear step off the ground without fighting it.
Lodge Utility Room Tapestry reads as the accent — it is the thing you notice. Log Cabin Green Chair sits a clear step off the ground without fighting it.
Live Room Rug 1 sits a clear step off the ground without fighting it. Lodge Hall Pendleton Style Bench Fabric reads as the accent — it is the thing you notice.
Church Pew Blanket reads as the accent — it is the thing you notice. Log Cabin Ottoman reads as the accent — it is the thing you notice.
RH Patio Furniture Fabric reads as the accent — it is the thing you notice.
RH Patio Furniture Wood sits a clear step off the ground without fighting it.
Church Pew Blanket sits a clear step off the ground without fighting it. Kitchen Chair Leather Stool sits a clear step off the ground without fighting it.
Pendleton Green Room Curtains sits a clear step off the ground without fighting it. Instr - Yamaha Drumkit sits a clear step off the ground without fighting it.
Lodge Buffalo Blanket Cabinet sits a clear step off the ground without fighting it. Chair Room & Board Camel Color sits a clear step off the ground without fighting it.
Red Room Curtain reads as the accent — it is the thing you notice. Instr - Mustang reads as the accent — it is the thing you notice.
Log Entry Tapestry reads as the accent — it is the thing you notice. Instr - Fender Strat Pre-CBS reads as the accent — it is the thing you notice.
Lodge Tapestry Nearest Staircase reads as the accent — it is the thing you notice. Instr - Gibson SG reads as the accent — it is the thing you notice.
Lodge Buffalo Blanket Cabinet sits a clear step off the ground without fighting it. Kitchen Chair Leather Stool sits a clear step off the ground without fighting it.
Lodge Tapestry Nearest Staircase sits a clear step off the ground without fighting it. Lodge Upstairs Bedroom Side Table reads as the accent — it is the thing you notice.
Furniture - Fabric or Leather Mats reads as the accent — it is the thing you notice. Log Cabin Couch reads as the accent — it is the thing you notice.
RH Patio Furniture Fabric reads as the accent — it is the thing you notice.
Furniture - Fabric or Leather Mats reads as the accent — it is the thing you notice. Instr - Unique Guitar Saba sits a clear step off the ground without fighting it.
Studio Bathroom Hallway Tapestry Burnt Orange sits a clear step off the ground without fighting it. Instr - Guitar Abernethy Green reads as the accent — it is the thing you notice.
Lodge Upstairs Bedspread reads as the accent — it is the thing you notice. Lodge Dining Chair reads as the accent — it is the thing you notice.
Green Room Back Wall Tapestry sits a clear step off the ground without fighting it. Lodge Dining Chair reads as the accent — it is the thing you notice.
Log Cabin Hallway Triangle Tapestry reads as the accent — it is the thing you notice. Lodge Upstairs Bedroom Side Table reads as the accent — it is the thing you notice.
These are the gaps — things this property needs that it does not have. Each one names a colour already in the building and the object it came off, so there is something real to compare against in a shop. Match the family and the material; do not chase the number. Where a choice has to be made between a slightly-off colour in the right material and a perfect colour in the wrong one, take the material every time.
A burnt orange-red that already exists indoors, brought outside as the one strong colour against granite, concrete and timber.
Warm timber or timber-toned seating that reads as an extension of the deck rather than as furniture placed on it.
Something genuinely pale, in quantity, in almost every room. The property has no light mass anywhere, and that is its one real structural weakness.
A runner or rug for the entrance and hallway, which currently holds exactly one movable object.
Every blue on this property is on a piece of rack equipment bolted into a rack. If a cool accent is wanted anywhere, it does not exist as something that can be moved — it has to be acquired.
The cabin's outside has one measured surface and no movable object whatsoever. Nothing on the property can be carried out there.
Blankets, cushions and throws in the browns and rust-reds already all over the building. Buy on sight when the material is right.
26 combinations across 11 rooms, and 7 things to go and find. Every colour on this page is a measured reading off a real object. Nothing was sampled from a screen and nothing was invented to complete a set.
Printed colour is close but not exact. Deep saturated reds, very dark browns and high-chroma golds shift most on an office printer. Where a colour matters, work from the screen version or from the object itself.