Making the Year's Chosen Shade Outlast the Year

Each year one shade gets crowned, and anyone decorating a room ends up with the same question: how do you keep living with it once the announcement is old news? A group of interior designers has now set out their methods for working a trend color into a home so it settles in instead of dating the room. That matters to anyone furnishing a house in Palm Beach or an apartment in New York, because a well-made room is meant to last for years, not one season. The advice comes from people who design rooms for a living, and it treats a passing color as something to place with care rather than something to chase.

With reporting from Galerie.