Picture this: I’m reclining on my sofa in my recently-renovated living room. I’m reading Joyful by designer Ingrid Fetell Lee. I read, “Few people would name their favourite color as gray or beige, yet our homes are often cloaked in bland neutral tones.” I stop reading and glance around. My walls are white. My sofa is grey. My Venetian blinds are black. My entire living room is a temple to neutral colours. I feel called out. I reluctantly continue reading. “Why is there such a gap between the colors that enliven us and the colors that surround us?” “Chromaphobia,” the book tells me emphatically. Diagnosing Chromaphobia Chromaphobia, simply put, is a fear of colour. The term chromaphobia was coined by Peter Stamberk and Paul Aferiat, the architects behind the vividly-hued Saguaro Hotel in Palm Springs, California. To them, chromaphobes are people who live in fear of picking the wrong colour for their spaces. Chromaphobes are afraid of colour....