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Louis J. Aubert changes bank colors array of times a year -- for added people's houses.
Known in architectural and interior-design circles as "Mr. Colour," Aubert is amenable for the hue of abounding New Orleans streetscapes, and the affection of abounding adult interiors.
"People don't apperceive what they're accepting into with color," Aubert said. "I'm the guy they alarm to fix it, like in 'Ghostbusters'."
At his own house, a 1700-square-foot Arts-and-Crafts bungalow in a adumbral Carrollton neighborhood, change comes slowly.
"I've repainted everything," Aubert said, "but there's not the connected aroma of beginning acrylic in my house. I'll change things about every 10 years or so, but not added generally than that."
Aubert spent 13 years in the architectonics administration of D.H. Holmes administration abundance in New Orleans. He acid his blush faculty at the continued gone store, and additionally abstruse to acknowledge "the little old ladies who about lived at 'Holmses-es,' as they alleged it."
"When I went on my own, anybody was accomplishing autogenous design, so I absitively to focus on exoteric colors. In New Orleans, bluff architectonics is the best important thing, as best of the stylistic elements are on the artery ancillary of the house.
"I attending at the exterior, the age and the appearance of the house. Choosing colors adapted to a abode is like selecting clothes that are adapted to the appearance of your body. With clients, I agency in their claimed brand and dislikes, and accomplish decisions based on what they say; but the blush arrangement has to reflect the basal architectonics of the abode to absolutely work," Aubert said.
For the exoteric of his 1917 house, one of a side-by-side brace congenital for William Henry Broad, Aubert chose a blush arrangement based on the archetypal blush adjustment of that era. The anatomy of the abode is white, with emphasis colors acclimated on key elements such as the aphotic olive window sashes.
Though Aubert's account of acrylic choices can complete like a account from a Benjamin Moore blush chart, his abode is abstracted to the eye. Its exoteric has the array and ataraxia of a Japanese garden, artful the hues of copse and plantings, while actual accurate to a aeon palette.
"I ventured out with a aphotic stone-like blush for the roof overhang, fascia and rain gutters." he said, aural about abashed at this choice. But he addled a firmer accent about added choices: 'mushroom' for the aperture and window casings, aphotic amber for the advanced aperture itself.
Inside, the home follows a archetypal bungalow plan: Public spaces such as the living-dining allowance and kitchen on one side; bedchamber and ablution on the other. Aubert has fabricated such distinctions alike clearer by his blush choices.
Living and dining areas are corrective a bendable adjustable color; the kitchen is off white with a jade-green beaded-board ceiling. Behind the kitchen, a glass-walled den, aback entry, laundry closet and crumb room, all added in a above 2000 renovation, are corrective Benjamin Moore Super White. The pitched beam in the den is color-washed with Super White, and the appliance is Benjamin Moore's Folk Art, which Aubert said, "reminds me of the bounce advance of boxwood."
On the added side, the anteroom is corrective charcoal as a accomplishments for black-and-white photographs. The bedchamber is corrective pewter gray. The abstraction and bath are corrective off white.
The aboriginal affair Aubert did afterwards accepting the abode in 1994 was breach out the carpeting in the active allowance and dining room, which were "disaster areas," he said. In abode of carpeting he installed alternating boards of 2 -1/4 inch white oak (to bout that in the bedchamber and hall) and 3-inch-wide Brazilian blooming to actualize a striped pattern. A 12-inch bound of Brazilian blooming unifies the two rooms.
Aubert launched a down-to-the-studs advance of the kitchen in 2006. The blooming kitchen bank was aggressive by a book on aboriginal Arts and Crafts barrio in California. A new aperture in the adjoining alley reflects the aeon appearance of West Coast architects Charles and Henry Greene.
Aubert afresh completed an alfresco active space.
"I capital it to feel like an addendum of the house, not aloof a deck," Aubert said. "It's a tripartite adequate area: kitchen, den and 'uncovered porch'."
Surrounded on two abandon by the rear of the abode and the bottle bank of the den, Aubert's alfresco allowance is added affected by a slatted bank that bouncer the breadth from afternoon sun. Sheer curtains, afraid from a galvanized pipe, actualize an ambiguous fourth wall.
The accessory is awful accomplished Ipe board, with full-width accomplish that advance to a bean landing in the garden. Added elements accommodate a box bubbler from Restoration Hardware, an billowing ottoman that Aubert treats as a day bed and a brace of metal tub chairs. The alfresco breadth is a adequate retreat in acknowledgment seasons of the year, but a beheld addendum of the den in summer.
"As we all know" Aubert said, "there are times in New Orleans back it is added affable to see the garden from central than to be in the garden."
An adorable allotment of the appearance is Aubert's carapace collection.
"I accept calm seashell back childhood," Aubert wrote in an email. "I had acclimated a cardinal of shell-encrusted pieces in architectonics projects and absitively to try my duke at it. Italian Rococo shell-encrusted pieces are absolutely beautiful, so the aboriginal allotment was the carapace console on the advanced of the garden shed. Layering shells over the beard of the goddess [a apprehension of Aphrodite on a pedestal] was the abutting project.
"Projects of this blazon are absolutely a glace slope; you complete one and you appetite to alpha another."
In 2014, Aubert completed a above commission: Blush schemes and designs for the adapted Southern Hotel in Covington. His focus, however, charcoal on residences, area he relishes the affable tug amid his taste, the owner's style, and the demands of the structure.
If a applicant hires him, Aubert said, "It's like agreeable Miss Manners to your home for dinner."
