Robert A. O'Brien, AIA is a graduate of the Virginia Tech College of Architecture and Urban studies. After interning with a number of respected firms in the Baltimore-Washington area, he became licensed and went into private practice in 1995. Mr. O'Brien is involved in residential and commercial architectural design, with a strong emphasis on custom residential projects, serving clients in the Mid-Atlantic region.

Home & Garden > Home Interior Choosing a paint color for your living room

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Before you pore over the paint chip display at your local home improvement store in an effort to find the perfect color for your living room, let's take a big step back and ponder the true nature of color for a moment. What is color without light? We need light in order to perceive color, and light itself is actually comprised of many colors. Pure white light is a combination of all the colors of the rainbow , i.e. the visible spectrum, fused together. Remember Roy G. Biv from science class? When light hi's a colored surface, we perceive it as colored because it is reflecting one color and...

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