Color at Joynn'd is not a finish option.
It's the product.
— Katie Lowell, Co-founder · Joynn'd
Color at Joynn'd is not a finish option.
It's the product.
— Katie Lowell, Co-founder · Joynn'd
She studied art in college and spent fifteen years at a storage manufacturer watching the industry choose the path of least resistance. Cream. Tan. The grey nobody loved but nobody had to defend. She and her team tried — hanging their own pieces, rearranging what they could. It wasn't enough.
Near the end, she and business partner Eric Schmidt launched a locker line that pushed the design — sleek where the category had always been rigid, considered where it had only ever been functional — and it won a NeoCon award. They'd proved what was possible. Then they left.
What came next surprised a lot of people. She and Eric started winning accounts they had no business winning — Fortune 100 companies, architecture firms, clients with real design standards. They won because they showed up differently: treating storage as a design decision when everyone else was treating it as a utility purchase. The demand was always there. Someone just had to take it seriously. That someone became Joynn'd.
The design philosophy behind Joynn'd comes from somewhere the industry wouldn't expect. Katie's greatest design influence isn't a furniture designer — it's a street artist. Banksy. Not for color. For the instinct: put art where nobody thinks to look. Make your point through contrast. Create beauty in the place the world agreed to leave drab.
A locker wall is exactly that place.
Color at Joynn'd is not a finish option. It's the product. Chosen the way a painter chooses — with an understanding of how color behaves at scale, how it moves through a space, what it does to the person who opens a door every morning.
What happens when twenty years of restraint stops being restrained. Every decision grounded in joy science and twenty years of knowing what this market has been too cautious to offer — until now.
Where this comes from
Put art where nobody thinks to look. Make your point through contrast. Create beauty in the place the world agreed to leave drab.
The Lookbook
Every palette in The Joy Collection, shown across locker wall, pantry, island, and zone divider — a leave-behind built to specify from. One PDF, ready for the desk, the deck, or the client.
Twelve colors. Chosen the way a painter chooses. Each one named, each one deliberate. Hover to meet them — then see what they become together.
Neutrals
Wood Grains
See every combination
in the lookbook.
More from the collection
The Joy Collection
Each palette shown across locker wall, pantry, island, and zone divider — with enough to specify from.
The Lookbook
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