With the seemingly endless variety of color swatches, asking AD100 designers to pick just one go-to wall paint seems like a presumptuous request. And for some, it was. “It depends on the local light,” Ilse Crawford explains. Fellow honoree Miranda Brooks of Miranda Brooks Landscape Design concurs: “Different climates take different colors—I can’t commit!”
Thankfully, other designers—some 35 of them—entertained the idea. A select few designers nominated rich, contemplative colors, but the final palette of never-fail pigments is largely neutral, ranging from white to brown to gray (and all the beiges and greiges that come between them). Find the designer-approved wall paint colors below.