Field of dreams
Mountain splendor

Photos from a trip do more than just bring back memories; they can act as inspiration for your interior surroundings. To demonstrate our point, we used the mountain paint palette from The West in Color—a set of 60 colors we developed in association with Kelly-Moore Paints—to decorate two very different rooms. The color schemes were inspired by images of Washington's Skagit Valley and Mt. Rainier, taken by travel photographer Connie Coleman (www.conniecoleman.com).

We painted and furnished a dining room and a living room to show how to draw wall, furniture, and accessory colors from landscape photographs. Other sources of inspiration to consider are a favorite souvenir textile, ceramic, or other art object.