Aura® Paint Transforms a Beloved Historic Home

Interior designer Erin Fetherston refreshed a 19th-century farmhouse in Napa Valley using Benjamin Moore Aura® Interior and Aura Exterior paints.

The designer used a curated palette of nine Benjamin Moore hues to bring her vision to life.

Now a luxury vacation rental property located within Hoopes Vineyard, the designer’s choice of Aura on both interiors and exteriors ensured unmatchable, rich colour and ultimate durability.
“With the Aura Exterior line [which is designed for long-term durability], I knew that it would just have this richness and depth of colour that I was looking for and that it would stand up to the elements—important here in the country."

- Erin Fetherston, Interior Designer

Pretty wood modern dining table, chairs and sideboard in front of a green-painted wall, with a large mirror, and white hanging light.
"Green brings the outside in, which is always the marriage I'm looking to create in my design."
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Erin Fetherston
Interior Designer

Deep Neutrals Infuse Subtle, Just-Right Colour

High Park 467, a sophisticated herbaceous green, adds an organic pop of colour to the dining room. Of the green hue, Fetherston adds, "It's really reflecting the fact that we're surrounded by rows of olive trees, redwood forests, the vineyard." She also notes how the colour feels different throughout the day. "In the evening, around dinner time or before sunset—what we call Golden Hour—it is so beautiful and the green feels really vibrant," Fetherston says. "In the morning it's a little more dim, a little cozier."

Other neutrals from the deeper side of the spectrum that Fetherston selected include adaptable Gloucester Sage HC-100 and sunbaked Venetian Portico AF-185.
"We really wanted to bring the outside in, making the house feel as expansive and light as possible—despite a floor plan from the 1890s, which is full of small, enclosed rooms!"

- Erin Fetherston, Interior Designer

"I've found that white paint is my friend when it comes to maximizing light."

- Erin Fetherston, Interior Designer

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