WHITE IS INTEGRAL TO ALMOST ANY SPACE and product… BUT WHY?
Firstly, white serves as a great palate cleanser for the eye. Allowing us a moment to pause, it prevents areas from becoming too overloaded with color and activity. Secondly, it keeps things fresh. Take any room or shirt, even after it has aged, and you’ll immediately see that white accents keep their brightness better than anything else — even after wear and tear. The clarity that comes from this color makes it easy to keep its luster at the top.
Thirdly, white is a FANTASTIC vehicle to highlight architecture — in a home and as a classic shirt. Because it strikes a clear mark, it defines like no other. It lifts ceilings, widens the walls of even the tiniest of rooms, and gives you mental and visual breathing room. White is the true transformer.
Of course, at LIIEVE white is an integral part of our product. But how to approach it in other aspects of design, like a home? There are so many different whites in the world! Well, start with thinking about what you wish to accomplish. Are you seeking warmth or brightness? Are you in need of purity or accents? A warmer white helps address approachability and warmth, while crisper whites exact things up. Untainted whites are perfect for definition, while whites with pink or blue undertones will help you tie into something else.
HOW TO CHOOSE A WHITE
When choosing white decor, fixtures, and appliances, you’ll find that your choices are endless. By removing color from the equation, your options become much more open, as texture, temperature, patterns, etc. become the focus. White is the great balancing value: suddenly, pairing many different qualities in texture and pattern and accent colors like gold, become effortless.
At my interior design firm, we use white a lot, and in all sorts of ways. We love it as a palate cleanser and frequently add it to custom pieces like built-ins for helping ground a room’s architecture. We love it on walls in its warmer version to make a space feel like it might just wrap itself around you. And with décor, you’ll find white all over our projects, simply because when used in variation, wonderful textures and patterns arise.
So think of white and gather options. It’s a true multi-purpose use color that can take on many pleasant forms.
