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The palette
Your style neighborhood
Your analysis
What your answers say
Your twenty answers, read the same way the quiz read them, and what they say about why you pick what you pick.
Your strongest instincts
Your design DNA
What you kept passing on
What this style is made of
Learn from it
Do's and don'ts
Before you fall in love with it.
Liking the look and living with the material are two different things.
What this means for your home
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What you picked
One photograph for each question, the way you answered it.
Your style
Hollywood Regency
More is more
A home that sparkles, shimmers, and never whispers when it can sing.
Bold, glamorous, confident. Lacquered surfaces, animal prints, mirrored furniture. Palm Beach meets Old Hollywood.
More playful and theatrical than Art Deco; bolder and more glamorous than Traditional.
Jeid StudioWhat sits closest
The styles nearest to yours, measured the same way the quiz measured you. A room of yours that does not quite fit this style often fits one of these.
Art Deco / GlamBold & Statement
TraditionalHeritage & Formal
VictorianHeritage & Formal
How pattern works here
- Pattern in this style is big, mixed and confident.
- Draper paired wide stripes with florals, and her protege learned to mix three or four prints in one room.
- The base is often black and white, with saturated color laid on top: jewel tones and hot pink, emerald and turquoise.
- Every room gets a touch of black, and white and gold frame the bold prints.
- Motifs come from older grandeur and far places: Rococo scrolls, Greek key, chinoiserie, bamboo, palm fronds and banana leaves.
- Keep the scale large and the finish glossy.
- If a room reads stepped, geometric and hard edged, it has drifted to Art Deco.
Surface by surface
What this style asks for on each surface, and what pushes it into a different style entirely.
Flooring
- The floor is graphic and high contrast.
- Draper used black and white checkerboard tile, and the Greenbrier reopened in 1948 with checkerboard marble floors.
- Polished marble squares suit an entry or hall, and a tile version works in baths.
- Draper also painted floors cherry red, which can work in one small room.
- Marble is calcareous, so acids can dull or etch it, and sealing helps with stains but does not make it stain proof.
- Avoid: rustic wide plank, gray washed oak, and small busy mosaics across a whole floor.
Tile
- Tile carries contrast more than pattern.
- Black and white checkerboard is the period answer.
- Calacatta Viola is a current pick that echoes the pink and violet palette: a cream marble with burgundy and violet veins, sold honed or polished in 24 to 48 inch large format, 7 to 23 inch medium format and mosaics 2 inches and smaller.
- It is a current design choice, not a revival.
- Avoid: plain white subway with gray grout, wood look tile, and gray on gray.
Cabinets
- Cabinet faces are lacquered and glossy.
- Draper's Espana chests shipped in black bean lacquer with gold incised lines, and her Viennese line came in celadon green with cream and gold lines and in ivory.
- White lacquer with gilded details is the bright option.
- Pink, coral, mint and emerald lacquer are popular refinish colors today, not the original finishes.
- A beveled mirror door suits a bar or dressing room.
- Avoid: rustic stains, open grain oak, and flat matte finishes.
Cabinet hardware
- Hardware is brass and polished to a shine.
- The Espana chest uses round brass pulls, and dealers polish them back to a high shine.
- The Viennese pieces use brass drop pulls and brass with acanthus leaf backplates.
- Satin brass suits white lacquer where full polish would feel loud.
- Keep one warm metal per room.
- Avoid: oil rubbed bronze, matte black, and long bar pulls.
Lighting
- Light should sparkle.
- Crystal chandeliers are the main sparkle, and a 1940s French cut crystal flower bouquet on bronze vines is a good model at about 30 inches high and 25.5 inches across.
- Gilt bronze and mirrored lamps work in pairs on consoles and nightstands.
- Brass and gilt lead here, and chrome is a minor note.
- Avoid: industrial cages, rattan drums, and recessed cans as the only light.
Fireplaces
- The mantel is a stage for a mirror.
- A gilt or sunburst mirror over the mantel reads right.
- John Elgin Woolf built a floating fireplace with the flue run to small side columns and a pane of glass above the mantel where a chimney would be.
- A black marble surround with white veins, like Nero Marquina, is a current pick, not a period one.
- It is a limestone sold as marble and can etch.
- Avoid: stacked stone, rough brick, and rustic beam mantels.
Windows
- Glass opens the house to the garden.
- French or glass doors link inside and out.
- Woolf used oval windows on his facades and large expanses of glass and mirror to make rooms feel bigger.
- For drapery, chintz and bold stripes fit the style.
- Avoid: small divided lite grids, vinyl blinds, and plain cafe curtains.
Stone
- Stone in this style is polished and shown off with brass.
- Black and white checkerboard marble on floors is the period use, and it leads.
- Onyx shows up as table tops on brass bases in the 1960s.
- Nero Marquina and Calacatta Viola are current picks: one black with white veins, one cream with burgundy and violet veins.
- All of these are calcareous, so lemon, vinegar and other acids can dull or etch them.
- Many fabricators suggest neutral cleaners.
- Avoid: speckled granite, leathered finishes, and busy quartz patterns.
Wallpaper
- Wallpaper is big, bold and botanical.
- CW Stockwell's Martinique banana leaf, hand printed in Los Angeles since the early 1940s, lined the Beverly Hills Hotel corridors after Don Loper chose it.
- It comes in the original green and a navy.
- Draper's Rhododendron lined the Greenbrier halls in 15,000 rolls in 1948, and it was reprinted in 1973.
- Draper also paired wide stripes with florals in the same room.
- Avoid: small ditsy prints, grasscloth everywhere, and beige damask.
Paint
- Color is saturated and set against white and black.
- For pink, Benjamin Moore Hot Lips 2077-30 or Flamingo's Dream 2002-40, or Farrow and Ball Rangwali No. 296.
- For green, Benjamin Moore Emerald Isle 2039-20.
- Draper's acid green woodwork can lean toward a lively mint like Farrow and Ball Arsenic No. 214.
- Farrow and Ball Vardo No. 288 is a rich teal near the turquoise in the card.
- Every room gets a touch of black, like Farrow and Ball Pitch Black No. 256 on a ceiling or door.
- White walls are Draper's base, and Benjamin Moore Chantilly Lace OC-65 is a crisp option.
- Avoid: greige, sage, and muddy mid tones.
Ceilings
- The ceiling joins the show.
- Draper promoted shiny black ceilings, which work best in a small dining room or powder room.
- Plaster relief and scrollwork are her signatures, often in swirls.
- Elsewhere a crisp white ceiling lets the color and gilt lead.
- Avoid: wood beams, plank ceilings, and heavy texture.
Wall details
- Mirror is the wall's main trick.
- Floor to ceiling bevelled mirrored walls are a classic move, and a room may need one mirrored wall.
- Gilt sunburst mirrors and clocks hang as focal points, in giltwood, gilt bronze or gilded resin.
- Plaster scrollwork over doors or a mantel adds Draper's baroque note.
- Lacquered walls can suit a small, glossy room.
- Avoid: shiplap, board and batten, and rustic reclaimed wood.
Furniture
- Furniture is glamorous, curved and polished.
- Draper's Espana chest, about 38 inches wide with three drawers and a finished back, can float as a divider or stand in an entry.
- William Haines Designs still makes the Brentwood chair, a curved back slipper chair on an ebonized frame.
- Tufted sofas with scalloped backs sit on ebonized mahogany or walnut legs.
- Onyx and brass cocktail tables, faux bamboo, Greek key mirrors and mirrored or gilt tables finish the room.
- Avoid: farmhouse tables, chunky rustic pieces, and matched suites in honey oak.
Textiles
- Fabric is soft, shiny and patterned.
- Haines used Italian cut velvet and leopard velvet on slipper and side chairs.
- A cream wool and silk blend dresses a 1940s tufted sofa, and suede fits the mix too.
- Draper's cabbage rose chintz carries the floral.
- Satin and fur can play a smaller part.
- Avoid: burlap, rough linen slipcovers, and drab neutrals only.
Rugs
- The floor covering is either a bold solid or a strong graphic.
- Draper laid bright green carpets, and David Hicks later used trellis pattern carpeting.
- Keep animal print on upholstery, not on the floor.
- Avoid: faded Persian patterns, jute, and shag.
Where to start
Real paint colors and products, so you have something specific to take to a paint counter or a showroom.
Wall paint
Hot Lips 2077-30Benjamin Moore, LRV 17.51, intense hot pink
Flamingo's Dream 2002-40Benjamin Moore, LRV 39.59, classic hot pink
Rangwali No. 296Farrow and Ball, pink, exotic and happy
Emerald Isle 2039-20Benjamin Moore, LRV 15.84, jewel toned green
Arsenic No. 214Farrow and Ball, lively mint green
Vardo No. 288Farrow and Ball, rich teal
Pitch Black No. 256Farrow and Ball, pure black, ceilings and doors
Chantilly Lace OC-65Benjamin Moore, LRV 90.04, crisp white
Wallpaper
CW Stockwell MartiniqueBanana leaf, green or navy, hand printed
Dorothy Draper RhododendronGreenbrier 1948, reprinted 1973
Slab stone
Calacatta ViolaCream, burgundy and violet veins, current pick
Nero MarquinaBlack limestone, white veins
OnyxTable tops on brass
Hardware finish
Polished BrassEspana pulls, high shine
Satin BrassSofter, on white lacquer
Gilt or Gold LeafMirrors, incised lines, legs
Finish samples are shown on cabinet hardware, so the metal reads true. Finishes without a sample are ones we have not photographed yet.
The architecture underneath
A lot of what makes a room read as this style is in the architecture, before any furniture comes in.
Pullman DoorFront door rises above the roofline
French Mansard RoofWoolf's Regency roofline
Oval WindowsFacade accent beside the entry
Doric Columns and UrnsNeoclassical trim at the entry
Boxy Stucco VolumesSmooth stucco walls, modernist forms
French or Glass DoorsLink the rooms to the garden
Floating FireplaceGlass above the mantel, flue to columns
Mirrored WallsFloor to ceiling, beveled
What to know about the materials
A few materials this style uses need more care than they look like they will. Worth knowing before you choose them.
MarbleMarble can etch. Lemon, wine and tomato can leave dull marks, and sealing does not stop that. A stone pro can polish the marks out, and a honed finish hides them better. Plenty of people like how it ages. If you would not, we will steer you somewhere else.
OnyxIt is soft, and acids and scratches mark it easily. Onyx belongs somewhere backlit and looked at, rather than on a surface anyone sets a pan down on.
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