A welcoming home gets a lively color palette

After more than a dozen years of enduring dull white living room walls, a baby blue palette in the master bedroom and a haphazard furniture arrangement, Barbara and Bob Christin decided it was time to call in a professional.

“I had never painted anything, and I could not decide what colors to pick,” said Barbara, a government lawyer. “Bob kept saying it was driving him crazy and he wanted me to pick something, but I didn’t want to make a mistake.”