The Perfect Red: It's Not Just for the Holidays

From candy apple to carnelian, the color red wears many faces. It can be festive, elegant, warm, saucy, passionate, vital and timeless. It’s both a power color and a period piece (and everything in between!), and as at home in traditional Victorian brownstones as it is in high-wattage modern condominiums. We can’t get enough of the versatile shade any time of year, enjoy a few of our favorite looks….

经典的优雅

Interior design by Anthony Catalfano 内饰; photo by Eric Roth

This pleasing living room in Brookline, fashioned by interior designer Anthony Catalfano of Anthony Catalfano 内饰 is swathed in a bright and beautiful red. Layered in solids and florals on the rug, walls and furnishings, the cranberry tone gives the classic interior a look of luxury and radiance that is effervescent alongside its sage green counterpoint.

大胆的活力

Sleeping Dog Properties, Inc.; interior design by Tony Cappoli 内饰

Luxury design build firm Sleeping Dog Properties, Inc. and interior designer Tony Cappoli 内饰 use a power red in a high-impact penthouse renovation in the South End for a globetrotting family with another home abroad. Throughout the city oasis, scarlet accents are letter-perfect, and a highlight of a rich décor that speaks to the homeowners’ world travels.

Sleeping Dog Properties, Inc.; interior design by Tony Cappoli 内饰

The energetic hue is laced throughout the 定制的公寓, amplifying bookshelves, adding pop to pillows and free falling ever so gently in a bedroom. 在主浴室里, the shade brings dimension as well as a look of extravagance via a stunning, garnet-red tiled feature wall.

Sleeping Dog Properties, Inc.; interior design by Tony Cappoli 内饰

美好的温暖

改造 by S + H建设; interior design by 安妮·霍尔室内设计; stone fabrication and install by Cumar公司.; photography by Michael J. 李

A nuanced dusty rose figures in greatly to the bearing of a romantic bedroom within an 1876 brick townhouse renovated by S + H建设. Designed by interior designer Annie Hall of 安妮·霍尔室内设计, this private retreat features a jewel-toned rug underfoot and holly berry red on its angled walls. A professional wall finisher added coats of a gold wash over the red hue to create a varied effect that softens the absolute black granite of the fireplace surround and shimmers in the flicker of flames.

开玩笑地现代 

LDa架构 & 内饰; photo by Greg Premru

A modern waterfront home designed by LDa架构 & 内饰 strikes an artistic and playful vibe that is all the more rad for its red. While bold cherry makes an appearance throughout the multitiered main level (it graces the tile of the fireplace and the open plan’s structural supports), it is primary in the kitchen and the pantry. The hue imparts a feel-good chic that suits the home’s light-filled living spaces and architectural lines.

LDa架构 & 内饰; photo by Greg Premru

Main image photo by Greg Premru