Amy Lau Design
Family Circle, November 2010

Family Circle - 10 Fun Ways to Color your world

by Terry Trucco


Pattern play


"Big bands of color on the walls really pump up a white room," says Lau. Instead of conventional, two-toned stripes, she wakes up a kid's room with wide swaths of orange and yellow and a narrow band of black. "The colors deliver a bold, graphic look," she says. Before you paint, use a tape measure and pencil to plot the stripes with blue painter's tape, which won't remove existing paint when you peel it off.