Slate Blue Home Office & Cream Entry Hall — Chattanooga, TN

A small home office in Chattanooga got a grounded, easy-to-live-with color: a mid-tone slate blue on all four walls. White crown molding, window casing and baseboards frame it, and the textured ceiling stays bright overhead. The contrast where the blue meets the crown gives the room a tailored edge, enough that it needs very little else on the walls.

Near the front door, the long entry hall is now a soft cream that keeps a narrow space open and light from end to end, with white crown running its full length. A close-up from the same interior painting job shows fluted door casing and stacked crown in fresh white against a pale wall, the sort of detail that calls for patient brush work and clean lines rather than speed.