22 | September 2019
TEMPERATURE
RE AD
Boozer likes to mix
warm and cool tones,
but if you favor a
strictly cohesive look,
choose accents in
the same temperature
as your gray. (A warm
gray with warm colors
like yellow; a cool
one with blue.) To
gauge undertones in
cool grays, Boozer
compares a chip with
a blue swatch to see if
they look similarly cool.
LIGHT EFFECTS
Even the coolest of
grays can look warm
in bright light;
darkness intensifies its
undertones. A warm
gray can skew
brown; a cool one will
lean toward its
underlying hue—in
Boozer’s case, purple.
“In my apartment
the walls look purple
when there’s no light.”
HOME COLOR
nterior designer Rayman Boozer’s New York City
apartment is his home and studio, so it has to be
a welcoming, inspiring space for him, his team, and
clients of his firm, Apartment 48. The colors he chose
for the large surfaces are integral to maintaining a calm yet
creative feel. “One of the tricks I use is for the sofas, walls,
and curtains to be neutral,” he says. “Then I add pillows in a
rainbow of colors and artwork that picks up every color.
The mix doesn’t feel crazy because they’re isolated against
something neutral.” To unify the open space, he repeated
shades of his favorite blue throughout—on bookcases in the
living area and fabric on the dining chairs, for example.
Boozer painted the ceilings white to balance the saturated
wall color, reflect light, and give the illusion of added height.
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