Oregon Home | 43 COLOR By EMILY GROSVENOR | Photos by HEATHER KEELING Life Lived in WHEN KRISTIN VAN BUSKIRKfirst walked through the 1920s Portland Heights Tudor she now lives in with her husband and teenage child, she knew it was enough of a blank canvas for her vibrant love of color. “We were only the third occupant, and it hadn’t been touched in 60 years,” Buskirk says. “It has every element you need for a creative person who wants to make themselves a house.” The former color-design director for Nike and owner of Woonwinkel, a downtown shop where you can actually shop by color category, was used to making bold color choices and connecting options to the feelings she wants to elicit in spaces. She began her painting project in the home with a small eating nook, choosing Miller Paint’s “Palest of Lemon,” a light yellow with green and red undertones, with enough gray in it that it works as a neutral. The owner of Portland gift boutique Woonwinkel gets candid about being bold at home. I wanted it to help wake me up as the sun rose, the way a really subtle alarm clock would,” Van Buskirk says, of the room’s color. “
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