Alexa Hampton Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Alexa Hampton Design is a matter of balancing different needs and outlooks-practical and aesthetic, masculine and feminine, designer and client, dream and reality. Alexa Hampton masculine-and-feminine dream reality Keep a minimum of 15” between coffee tables and sofas Alexa Hampton sofas coffee tables During college, when I was working full time for my father [the decorator Mark Hampton], I rented an apartment and I just couldn't take time off to paint it. So I went there one evening and stayed up all night painting the place what I thought was a lovely pale yellow. When the sun came up, I realized I'd painted the walls the color of insanity. I had to immediately mix in all my trim color to tone it down. Yellow is an electric color and wholly misleading. It becomes more yellow with the sun's yellow light on it. The moral is, even if you think your yellow is the one, go paler. Alexa Hampton wall night father
