Ashley Robustelli
Media & Design Manager
Ashley brings a creative and strategic approach to shaping impactful interiors. With a diverse background in marketing and design, she brings specialized skills to the Omega team.
Choosing the right combination for the interior of your home is one of the toughest aspects of the home building process, but also the most enjoyable!
Design Studio Choices
One of the major benefits of building homes for over 50 years is the expertise gained through completing selections for thousands of homes, allowing us to simplify the color selection process for our homebuyers.
The toughest part about choosing colors is the choice itself.
When presented with a paint swatch deck filled with hundreds of choices, it is near impossible for someone without a lot of experience to choose the perfect paint color - there are just too many choices.
Our design and purchasing teams collaborate closely with trusted vendors to curate the best options at the best value for our Design Studios—making the selection process easy, enjoyable, and free from decision fatigue.
By organizing our finishes into coordinated color families, we ensure that every component works harmoniously together. This simplifies your decision-making process and gives you the confidence that your selections will complement each other beautifully—creating the perfect combination for your new home.
Samples in the Design Studio are visual tools. Colors in your home may vary from samples or appear differently under different lighting conditions. Natural products are not guaranteed to match samples - examples include granite, brick and stone.
Interior Color Selection Types
There are two critical elements in a new home that set the tone for the design - cabinets and flooring for the main areas.
When choosing colors, I almost always start with cabinets. The exception is when I have a specific flooring choice in mind, then I start with the flooring first to make sure that the cabinets create the right balance.
Once you have your cabinets and flooring, focus on finishing the kitchen by choosing granite and backsplash tile.
This is when you want to pick the wall paint - looking at the kitchen selections, choose the wall color that provides the best backdrop for your choices and ties the look together.
From there, the rest of the choices are super easy because you've narrowed down the color family and just have to choose the best match for bath wall tile and carpet.
Depending on the included features or options you decide to add, you might also have to pick shower floor tile and a framed mirror style.
The shower floor tile should either compliment or contrast the wall tile - achieve this by choosing a color that has the same grout as the walls, or one that is significantly lighter or darker.
Framed mirrors provide an opportunity to layer in a little of your personal style, whether clean & contemporary, or warm & traditional, we have the perfect range of choices to complete the look of your baths.
Interior Color Kits
Whether you purchase a Build-and-Personalize home and pick your own colors or choose an inventory home where the selections are already complete, our team will put together 3 Color Kits (exterior, interior, and lighting & plumbing).
What is a Color Kit?
A color kit is a combination of photo swatches and key details about the selections for a new home.
A color kit is a visual representation, like a mood board, that allows everyone to be on the same page about the design choices made.
A color kit is a fun & exciting way to share the choices you made with family & friends!
What is a Color Kit used for?
For homebuyers, it creates a general feeling of the colors of the home.
For construction, it provides a visual tool to quickly identify the colors in the home and ensures accuracy during installation.
Because a color kit is only a representation of the colors and is compiled of swatches from different manufacturers taken by different photographers in different lighting - it will only be used to verify the names & descriptions, not for color matching purposes.
Sherwin Williams® Interior Paint Colors
Top 10 Designer Color Combinations
These interior color selections are the colors, finishes & styles trending right now. You'll find them in inventory homes, but they also make a great starting point to get your new home selections off to a great start!
1. Light & Bright Gray with Dark Cabinets - Simple & On Trend
2. Light & Bright Gray with White Cabinets - Classic Textures & Finishes
3. Cool Grays with Dark Navy Cabinets - Bold Contrast & Subtle Details
4. Warm Grays with Dark Cabinets - Balance & Textures
5. Cool Grays with Light Gray Cabinets - Bright & Layered
6. Warm Grays with Graphite Cabinets - Bold Contrast
7. Warm Grays with Gray Cabinets - Warm & Subtle
8. Warm Neutrals with Dark Cabinets - Subtle & Soft
9. Cool Gray with Dark Cabinets - Contrast & Depth
10. Warm Neutrals with Gray Cabinets - Warm & Textured
Whether you're just starting your search or ready to choose the colors for your new home, you won't want to miss our check list to help make the most of your time in the design studio!
Check out our Ultimate Design Studio Check List!
