Serene taupe bedroom: Ellen Kennon Full Spectrum Paints 'Mushroom'

Designer Ellen Kennon: "I'll do entire houses in Mushroom, which is pretty darned fabulous. It's a beige, but it changes drastically — one minute it's putty and the next, it's rosier. Chameleon-like and mysterious, it takes on the properties of the colors around it. You want to put your hand out and touch the wall because it doesn't look solid. It's almost cloudlike." Photo from House Beautiful.

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