By Erin Ferucci
Celebrity Lifestyle Designer
It's spring and I feel inspired by nature! One of my favorite ways to bring nature into any space is to start with paint. There is no better paint to do this with than Donald Kaufman Paints and I have to tell you his new architectural colors are impeccable! 
I was in New York on a shopping trip for a client a last fall and couldn't resist. The paint chips alone were $75. 
Who charges $75 for paint chips? Donald Kaufman does. Why? Because his colors are to die for. Seriously, you can't go wrong. He has the perfect cream, the perfect french blue. He is an amazing colorist with impeccable good taste.
I was in New York on a shopping trip for a client a last fall and couldn't resist. The paint chips alone were $75. Who charges $75 for paint chips? Donald Kaufman does. Why? Because his colors are to die for. Seriously, you can't go wrong. He has the perfect cream, the perfect french blue. He is an amazing colorist with impeccable good taste.And they are all beautifully inspired by nature. Look at how rich these colors are! 
The bottom line is that Donald Kaufman Colors are incomparable and there are some very important reasons why. DK colors contain as many as 13 different pigments making them both rich and transparent. The transparency of the paint is what sets them apart from commercial paints. Also DK never adds oxides to their paints, oxides diminish paint's ability to reflect light.
So with DK colors you getter a richer tone that reflects light and actually transforms the light in the room.
The bottom line is that Donald Kaufman Colors are incomparable and there are some very important reasons why. DK colors contain as many as 13 different pigments making them both rich and transparent. The transparency of the paint is what sets them apart from commercial paints. Also DK never adds oxides to their paints, oxides diminish paint's ability to reflect light. So with DK colors you getter a richer tone that reflects light and actually transforms the light in the room.What is truly amazing is that he draws inspiration for his colors from raw nature,
creating rich,
expressive color that is unique and lush.
DK colors are more expensive than other paints, but the colors are unsurpassed. 
For maximum results DK colors suggests painting over white primer, as opposed to neutrals and expect to use 2 to 3 coats in order to achieve the best results.
creating rich,
expressive color that is unique and lush. DK colors are more expensive than other paints, but the colors are unsurpassed. For maximum results DK colors suggests painting over white primer, as opposed to neutrals and expect to use 2 to 3 coats in order to achieve the best results.
better known as The Meatpacking District. 
This is an area of the City that has been experiencing an amazing transformation over the last decade. 
In the early 1900's the area was home to over 259 slaughterhouses and packing plants,
by the 1980's it was an area that was known for sex clubs, drug dealing and prostitution.
Then in the late 1990's 
What a difference a designer can make.
Gansevoort Market is now widely considered the hottest, trendiest place to be in New York City. 
For shopping there are dozens of high-end boutiques to choose from such as 
It used to be an elevated freight railroad 
developed under the aegis of Robert Moses, now it is an incredible greenway modeled after Paris' Promenade Plantée. 
The High Line park isn't finished, when it is done it will continue from the former 34th Street freight yard, near the Javits Convention Center, through the neighborhood of Chelsea to Gansevoort Street (one block below West 12th Street) in the Meat Packing District of the West Village. 
For now just the southernmost section is open while the middle section is still being refurbished.
You can get to the High Line park from five different stairways or an auxiliary elevator on 16th Street. 
The park is lush with naturalized plantings that are inspired by the self-seeded landscape that grew on the unused tracks. 
Spectacular, unexpected views of the city and the Hudson River can be seen along the pebble-dashed concrete walkways. 
The old tracks are incorporated into the park creating a unique perspective of what once was. 
It is nothing short of a work of art. 
