Interior design

As we enter 2024 with trepidation, let us take comfort in the fact that this year’s “Colors of the Year” are actual colors. I’m an interior-design enthusiast who takes color very seriously. Over the course of seven years, I agonized over narrowing down dozens of saved paint samples to just five shades with which to paint the walls of a hypothetical cabin. Monet and I are simpatico — color is our “day-long obsession, joy and torment.” The online algorithms are well aware of my interest in interior decorating ideas, which may explain my impression that paint manufacturers put out a new “Color of the Year” every couple of months.

Nothing says “you have a fantastic sense of style!” quite like... your choices offer “a valuable lesson in color trends.” Cockburn can’t imagine what Mrs. Cockburn’s reaction would be if he said that about her eveningwear, yet that’s the best Homes & Gardens could come up with in describing the “controversial” paint colors Kamala Harris chose for the interior of her official residence. Harris’s Number One Observatory Circle home is full of “anti-fashion” gray hues, explains the publication, with the open-place space boasting “a strikingly gray color palette — from the painted walls to the drapes, dining chairs, and large rug atop the wood floor.”   In other words, the vice president’s domicile is drab AF.