Studio Howlett on the Cover of R·Home
We’re honored to share that Studio Howlett is featured on the cover of R·Home’s January/February 2026 issue, celebrating the magazine’s 20th anniversary and its theme, Color Theory.
The feature explores our renovation of an early-20th-century Oregon Hill home, highlighting an approach to color that is organic, layered, and deeply responsive to light, architecture, and movement through space. Rather than treating rooms in isolation, the palette was developed as a connected system — allowing spaces to shift in tone and mood while remaining visually cohesive.
“One of the interesting challenges we had was to create a color palette system that pulls things together. It’s not simply that the palette for Room A is color A, or that room B is color B. It is a dialogue of colors.”
Throughout the home, warm terracotta and peach tones are balanced with varied greens, using color to emphasize architectural transitions, soften circulation spaces, and guide how the house is experienced day to day. “Using these two colors provides a unifying feeling as you’re moving through the house,” Rachel notes. “Crossing the boundaries of spaces with the same colors… allows a different color to lead.”
“Often as a starting point, when you’re thinking about how to approach color in trim work, the idea is to just be consistent. While that’s good advice, we sometimes like taking risks.”
MANY THANKS