all the bright MOVES

Let there be light and happy jolts of color. One design-minded couple creates a high-style but nottoo-serious family home.

It takes a certain amount of pluck to confess that you based your kitchen renovation on...a paper shopping bag. An Acne Studios shopping bag,” photographer Billie Scheepers points out with a laugh, referring to the fashion brand’s beigey-pink bag. David came home with a new pair of jeans one day, and when I spotted the bag, I knew that was our color.”

Her husband, David Harrigan, had originally imagined a different kitchen hue— perhaps a vibrant orange or a British racing green,” he says—but he wholeheartedly embraced the shade once they had a custom-mixed paint sample. I believe in making courageous design choices,” says David, founder of Scandinavian design platform Aben.