No drab spaces here...
every corner of this tiny townhousewas remade in a shade!

OPPOSITES ATTRACT
(left) Because blue and yellow are color opposites, Carol Troutman’s yellow walls make the blue tiebacks practically pop off the window. She echoes the blue, yellow and cardamom red of the Troutman rocker on the painted coffee table.

COME-HITHER COLOR
(below) Carol Troutman’s palette appeal is apparent even before you step in the front door.

A self-confessed junkie of flea markets and fertile secondhand sources like The Rescue Mission, Carol started collecting—and coloring—eccentric pieces of furniture two decades ago, while she was still living confined by the “totally sterile” all-white walls her landlord mandated. At the same time, she began accumulating a brilliant collection of decorative arts from another favorite shopping destination: Mexico.
Now that she’s a homeowner and finally free to indulge her “craze for color,” Carol says she warns friends, “If you stand still too long, you’ll get painted!”
Not such a bad fate, considering the energy that reverberates through her two-story townhouse. Many of her friends want a share of the joy, Carol confides. “They ask me to do their houses, but I don’t know how to do someone else’s house. I only know what makes me happy.”