Cookin' with Color

Designer Tracey Rapisardi shares her tips for colorful rooms with plenty of taste.

Pay attention to proportion
Deborah Whitlaw Llewellyn

Pay attention to proportion

Tracey took advantage of the dining room's high ceilings to experiment with pattern, but made sure the scale was appropriate. "The size of your patterns has to be proportionate," she says. To create balance, she had 8-inch stripes painted on the wall and complemented them with a large checkerboard pattern on the table.

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