WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- Purple, long considered the color of royalty and creativity, is a combination of varying blues and reds and can add exotic flair to different rooms in your home.Generally, dark purples such as a grape or a berry hue work better in formal living and dining areas. Conversely, bright purples can bring energy to a child's room while softer purples such as lilac ...

WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- Feeling a little blue? Wallauer’s Design Centers certainly hopes so, as it line of Benjamin Moore paint colors in blue could be the perfect choice to update one or more of the rooms in your home.Blue, a primary color, suggests truth, constancy, sincerity, and tranquility. Blue is universal due to its familiar associations with oceans and the sky, and its ...

WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- If you’re thinking of sprucing up your home, Benjamin Moore’s line of green color paints, available at Wallauer’s Design Centers, are colorful choices.Warmer months offer energetic yellow and green colors for interior decorating, inspired by green grass, fresh leaves, and the warm sun. Selecting color schemes with yellow, green or a citrus yellow-green shades ...

WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- Simply White is Benjamin Moore’s Color of the Year for 2016, and homeowners can find out how to use it appropriately from design experts at Wallauer’s.“The color white is transcendent, powerful and polarizing – it is either taken for granted or obsessed over,” said Ellen O’Neill, Benjamin Moore Creative Director. “White is not just a design trend, it is a ...

WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- If you’re looking to add color to your home this holiday season, consider using red as a primary or accent alternative.“Red is a very powerful color,’’ said Kimberly Scappaticci, a Wallauer’s Design Center Color specialist. “It can be used as a canvas, and when doing so everything else in the room will be accentuated and become the focal points. A warm red ...

WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. – Wallcoverings are an essential tool in home decorating. Dorothy Vivas, a senior designer at Wallauer’s in White Plains, used them extensively to restore a 100-year-old house that had previously been updated to a contemporary style. “The new owner wanted to bring back the look and feel of the late 19th century, only this time using a newer more up-to-date color ...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – Wallauer Design Center in White Plains will have a three-day grand opening of its Ace hardware department this weekend at its store at 30 Virginia Road in North White Plains. There will a drawing on Monday, May 20, for a giveaway of a Weber grill. It’s all part of the new relationship between Wallauer, which opened in 1921 as a family-run organization, and the new ...