About
Daniela Araya Color + Design is a full-service interior design studio based in the Hudson Valley, led by Daniela Araya. We believe color is the gateway to a home that finally feels like the people who live in it.
Loving a color and living with it are two different things. That gap is where we work.
Before founding her studio, Daniela spent over a decade in media working at the intersection of storytelling and audience. That background still shapes how the studio works today: reading a person quickly, finding the thread that actually matters to them, and translating a feeling into something real. Color was always the fastest way to do that. Interiors just made it permanent.
That approach has taken the studio's work into homes across the Northeast and beyond, and into the pages of Domino, Wallpaper*, and Homes & Gardens. In 2026, Apartment Therapy named Daniela on its inaugural New/Next Designers list, a class of designers they identified as shaping the future of home.
Our Approach
Before we talk about paint colors or furniture, we want to know what makes you light up. What color have you always admired but never had the courage to use? Is there a memory tied to a particular shade? If your room had a playlist, what would it sound like? Those questions might seem far from interior design, but they're exactly where the real work begins.
We think about spaces holistically — how they look, yes, but more importantly, how they hold up to real life. The flow, the function, the way a room needs to work when no one's photographing it. Design is sensory and practical at once, and we hold both equally.
We'll work within your constraints. But first, we dream.
