Carole Vaudable Interior Design

10/09/2026

How to decorate your home based on your zodiac sign.

Your sign can be a useful starting point for the mood of a room.

Fire signs may lean toward warmth and drama, earth signs toward natural materials and grounded spaces, air signs toward openness and lightness; and water signs toward softness and atmosphere.

Comment “zodiac” for the full breakdown.

10/06/2026

Goosebumps. Literally.

My skin reacted before my brain did.

There’s something about seeing different creative worlds come together that gets me every time.

Fashion on an ice rink. So much color. Models walking while professional figure skaters flew past them. The music, the movement, the people, the clothes…

It could have been too much. Somehow it all worked.

I think we talk a lot about good taste as knowing what goes together. But the most interesting part might actually be knowing what shouldn’t go together and making it work anyway.

09/30/2026

Why objects are perceived differently depending on what surrounds them.

Context changes how we see everything. From furniture and art to luxury retail, the space around an object can completely change how valuable, beautiful, or important it feels.

Comment « Object » for the full breakdown.

09/24/2026

After overwhelming demand, here are the matching colors you’ve been waiting for 🤩 Reach out for any questions.

* Dark red living room: SW 7585 Sun Dried Tomato. Warm enough to feel inviting, dark enough to make the room feel intentional at night.
* Olive green living room: SW 6424 Tansy Green. Reads more like a neutral than people expect, it grounds a room without fighting the furniture in it.
* Pink-orange living room: SW 7701 Cavern Clay. This one photographs differently depending on the light, which is exactly why I love it in a room you actually live in.
* Blue gray bedroom: SW 9140 Blustery Sky. Calming without going cold, it’s one of my go to bedroom colors for clients who want restful, not sleepy.
* Bright green bookcase: SW 6926 Lucky Green. Used in a small dose, this is the kind of color that makes a whole room feel less predictable.
* Purple library: SW 2704 Merlot. Deep enough to feel like a real room with a purpose, not just a hallway with books in it.
* Pink-orange dining room: SW 6339 Persimmon. Dining rooms can hold more drama since you’re only in them for an hour or two, this one earns its keep.
* Brown kitchen entrance: SW 9114 Fallen Leaves. A warm neutral that makes the entrance feel finished the second you walk in, before you even see the rest of the home.

09/22/2026

A client once wanted to return a chair because the armrest had started to show signs of wear.
She saw damage. I saw evidence that someone had actually lived there.

Because if people can’t fully relax in your home without worrying about damaging it, at some point the home has quietly become the priority over the people actually living in it.

It made me think about what separates a beautifully decorated home from one that actually feels alive.

There are 10 signs I’ve started noticing again and again in the homes I visit and they have very little to do with how expensive or perfectly designed a space is.

I wrote about all 10 in my latest Substack article below:

The one thing no interior designer can recreate for you

09/22/2026

Why worn, imperfect things often feel more authentic.
Some materials get better the longer you live with them.

Leather softens, wood gets marked, metal darkens and fabric fades in the places you touch most. Over time, those small imperfections make an object feel less generic and more personal.

Comment “authentic” for the full breakdown.

09/15/2026

Color does not makes a room feel smaller. It makes it feel intentional. The room that « shrinks » is usually the one that was never designed, just left blank.

And no, you don’t need a light-flooded room to pull this off. You need the right undertone and the right sheen. Some of my favorite drenched rooms get almost no direct light. That’s not a dealbreaker, that’s a starting point.

Six rooms, same walls, two different lives. Tell me which one you’d actually want to come home to👇

09/12/2026

Why weight changes how expensive something feels.
Our brains read weight as a signal. Heavy materials can feel more permanent, substantial, and luxurious, while extreme lightness can signal precision, engineering, and performance. From restaurant cutlery to interiors and product design, luxury is often something you feel before you consciously see it.

Comment “weight” for the full breakdown.

09/05/2026

Can we talk about how wrong the color wheel is?

Everyone thinks complementary means high contrast or matchy and it’s just not true.
Cobalt blue and to***co brown work because they’re both deep, not because they’re « opposite » on some chart.
Lavender and lemon yellow only work because that yellow is soft, if it was a primary yellow it’d be a mess.
Rosewood and terracotta don’t even have contrast and it still works, tonal harmony is underrated.
Burnt orange and black is the only pair here that’s actually dramatic.
Antique rose and olive green work because they’re both muted, if either one was more saturated it’d fall apart.
And cornflower blue and lime green, I know, I know. It’s the one everyone’s scared of but it works.
Forget the whee, trust the undertone.

Which one would you actually use in your space?

09/01/2026

Why the brain responds differently to symmetry and asymmetry.
Symmetry is easier for us to process, which is why it often feels calm, balanced, and complete. Asymmetry makes the eye work a little harder, creating movement, tension, and interest. From Versailles to Rococo furniture, designers have used both for centuries to shape how a space feels.
Comment “Balance” for the full breakdown.