Do you want to warm up your Minnesota home without increasing your heating bill? A Paris-based writer for the Wall Street Journal has an excellent suggestion: why not paint your interiors the same luxurious yellowish white that is practically standard issue in most Parisian apartments? The color itself is close to the color of rich crème fraiche – a lemony white that was, the writer recalls, ‘neither too yellow nor too beige, it never tended toward green or gray, even on the gloomiest days.’ I find the color works wonderfully when matched with Calcutta or Carrara marble, as well as limestone.

Start warming things up around your home by specifying Benjamin Moore Linen White, lightened by 50%.