Interior décor, coloring books and you - Style One
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have joined in by creating their own. In the last year, the New York Naftali Group and Christie’s International Real Estate both have found that coloring books featuring their own properties and projects resonate with adult clients, not just the children. Real estate agent Fern Hammond of New York’s Halstead thought adult real estate-themed coloring books would make a great give-away at open houses. Some coloring books illustrate and teach architectural terms such as “Houses, Houses, Houses,” featuring early-American homes, and illustrator Steve McDonald published his detailed drawings of real neighborhoods in real places around the world in “Fantastic Cities.”
Coloring isn’t just for children anymore; probably never has been. If you are looking for something to do to calm your mind, relax the tensions of the day, and have fun with color, take another look at those adult coloring books. They might even help with your next home remodeling project.
Color and texture, light and space—what do you do with them when your house needs a change in décor and you are the one who decides what and where and how high? When is a color choice a right choice and when is it a mistake? To narrow down the choices, ask yourself, how do you approach life—do you color inside or outside the lines? Take a look at any number of home interior websites and you will find many tips on what colors to use and what to avoid, what is trending and what will be the next important color. Contradictions as to what is good and what is not abound and then there are those designers like Jeribai Tascoe at hgtv.com who will give you a few great tips and then advise you to break the rules if that is what you want and just go out and paint. Is there an easier and less expensive way to test colors than buying a quart in each of your favorites and painting the walls themselves? Yes, there is, and this brings us back to color, as in coloring books.
Karen Gross, a long-time outside the lines colorist, noted the popularity of adult coloring books in her 2016 article on the huffington.com Blog. She encouraged her readers: “Do not always color inside the lines. Do not always use expected colors. Color with joy and creativity.” This idea permeates
the coloring book “Color at Home ” by Sherry and John Petersik and Joan Borawski. The Petersiks write the DIY blog Young House Love and Borawski is the illustrator who helped bring the home interiors to black and white life. This is not the only coloring book on home architecture and design but as
Jenny Xie stated in her 2016 post, it is “one that explicitly wants to help you spruce up your home.” The drawings are very detailed home interiors, from built-in bookcases to ornate rugs, with a few pages of exteriors and furniture. They include hints on color and design and pages with exercises to test wild and crazy or bold and sassy or plain old different color and design ideas. Relaxing, fun, and practical, this coloring book is helpful as well as popular. Coloring page of real estate agent talking to man in front of a house In more recent years, coloring books featuring real estate, architecture, and cityscapes have found an audience among real estate-minded people. So much so, that developers and upscale city brokerages
