Color changed everything for me before I knew what to call it.
I was renting my first house in Austin — a perfectly fine place with white walls, beige carpet, and the kind of neutrality that functions without ever making you feel anything. I lived in it for eight months before I changed one thing: I added a terracotta-toned throw blanket to the living room sofa. That afternoon, for the first time, the room felt like mine. Not the landlord’s. Not the previous tenant’s. Mine.
I’ve been chasing that feeling ever since — and figuring out exactly why it happens.
I’m Mac. I write about interior design with a focus on color — how it works, why it works, and how to use it with enough confidence that your home stops feeling like a catalog page and starts feeling like a place someone actually lives. That someone being you.
ColorBlend Interiors grew out of four years of decorating my Austin rental house one room at a time, one color decision at a time, on a budget that required me to think carefully before every purchase. I’ve tested more throw pillows, area rugs, and lamp shades than any sane person should. I’ve returned things that looked nothing like their listing photos. I’ve made color mistakes I’m not proud of and learned more from those than from anything that worked on the first try.
What I cover here spans several design styles — Afro Bohemian, Japandi, Scandinavian, green interiors, blue rooms — but the lens is always the same: what does the color palette actually do to how the space feels? That question is what ColorBlend Interiors is built around.
My cat has opinions about everything I style. She has claimed the left armchair as her permanent territory and sheds on textiles without apology. Her durability testing is, honestly, more rigorous than mine.
Everything I write comes from a real house, a real budget, and a real curiosity about why color works the way it does. I buy the products I recommend with my own money. I tell you when something didn’t live up to the listing photo. And I never recommend a color palette I haven’t seen work in actual Texas light — which is its own particular kind of honest.
If you’re here because your home looks fine but feels like it belongs to no one in particular — that’s exactly where I started. The right color palette is almost always closer and cheaper than you think.
With color and intention,
Mac
colorblendinteriors.com — Austin, Texas
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