August 5, 2024
Palazzo in Domino: Venus Williams Uses This Dramatic Paint Color on Repeat
The tennis court isn’t the only place where Venus Williams gives her all—she won’t settle for anything less than 100% at the paint store either. “I like to push myself, even [with] colors,” she says. Her love for interior design is what ultimately inspired her to start her firm, V Starr, back in 2002, and more recently cofound AI-powered home-visualization tool Palazzo. With the help of Palazzo’s chatbot, users can upload a photo of their space and get a sense of what it would look like with completely different finishes and furniture, including the HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams 2025 Color Collection of the Year. “We’ve all seen folks make the wrong choice, where they don’t like the color of their wall,” says Williams. “We know colors are very important.”
The just-announced assortment of trending paint colors spans 10 hues, including HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams’s number one pick for next year: Quietude. Ahead, we asked the tennis champion–turned–design aficionado what she thinks about the cool sage green, plus her go-to color for upping the drama in a room.