"In Florida, where most houses along the coast are just a wave away from the ocean, even a north-facing room is flooded with light. Doing our library in cozy red would have felt like a bad sunburn. Green seemed to be a good idea, a smoky green from a memory of my first tree house. My brother and I used to spend hours looking up at the canopy of leaves." — MIMIMCMAKIN



To get the look of Mimi McMakin's library use SHERWIN-WILLIAMS INLAND SW 6452.