Each week, Mansion Global tackles a topic with an elite group of designers from around the world who work on luxury properties. This week, we look at how to embrace pastel colors within your home.

Using analogous color schemes — neighboring hues from the color wheel — in interior design is a way to create flowing spaces, where an innate sense of smoothness and ease rules.

When adding color to a room design, many people start with things that are easy to implement, like cloth furnishings, such as cushions or curtains. Curtains sometimes cover a large area and can affect ...