A spacious, bright, light-filled home in the leafy borough of Alpine NJ is brought up to date with the use of a fresh pale grey blue palette injected with carefully selected splashes of colour.

The Clients, a youthful, enterprising family, wanted a room where they could relax, watch TV and entertain friends.

The palette predominantly uses subtle pattern and texture that play with the abundance of light to create an underlying sense of tranquility with punches of colour to keep the atmosphere lively. The rug, for example, transforms from a silvery grey to deepest blue depending on the time of day while the flashes of polished brass on the furnishings add dimension and warmth to the colour scheme.