A good dose of inspiration from Luis Barragán turned a dark and beleaguered midcentury house into a family home for the ages. The paint colors chosen by the residents and architect Linda Taalman are American Cheese and Blushing Bride, both by Benjamin Moore, creating a tapestry of color and texture. Photo 1 of 10 in 10 Sensational Renovations That Aren’t Shy With Color from A Fresh Dose of Barragán-Inspired Color Livens Up This Los Angeles Midcentury

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Filmmaker Laura Purdy worked with architect Linda Taalman and landscape designer Laura Cooper on the renovation of her family home in Los Angeles (with input from Purdy’s husband, Juan Devis, and Taalman’s husband and former codirector at Taalman Koch Architecture, Alan Koch). The resulting design incorporates the owners’ eclectic collection of art and personal artifacts, as well as jungly plantings that evoke the tropical atmosphere of Devis’s native Latin America. In the living room, pink-and-yellow stucco walls—painted with the American Cheese and Blushing Bride colors by Benjamin Moore—were inspired by architect Luis Barragán’s Mexican modernism.