Designer Bradford Shellhammer's colourful ranch home is a bold collection of memories

If you have in your possession a pair of plum-coloured trousers, multicoloured striped socks and aquamarine trainers, and started a company named Fab, it stands to reason that your home would be a touch on the colourful side - Bradford Shellhammer doesn't disappoint.

"I am loud and colourful and opinionated," Shellhammer declares. The founder and chief design officer of online design store Fab is all about living it large: he loves meeting new people, he loves travelling the world and most of all, he loves collecting. "Our home shows off many collections: art, toys, furniture, planes … We've also collected many memories here," he adds fondly.

This two-storey ranch in Orange County, New York, serves as a weekend home to Shellhammer and his partner, Georgi Balinov, and the design aesthetic is certainly a reflection of Fab's mission statement. "The vision [for the company] was to make shopping fun and to remove the elitism that's oftentimes confused with design. Design is for everyone," Shellhammer explains. Balinov let him run with the decoration and design, and he decided to make it a shrine to Fab, sourcing more than half of the home's contents from the online store.

It's hardly subtle - taxidermy, foosball table and dizzying graphic rugs aside - as the home is also a riot of head-turning hues, and that's exactly the way Shellhammer wants it. "It's a happy house filled with colour and decorated with love. We wanted as many materials and colours as we could pack into the house," he explains. "It's meant to make people smile and to remind our guests to never grow up."

The home's furniture, in loud, vibrant shades and bold shapes, certainly evokes the surreal quality of Neverland, but a closer look reveals that the furniture choices and design composition are no child's play. The living area, for example, looks like a treasure trove of iconic designer pieces, all of which seem to complement - rather than clash with or outshine - one another. Two bright yellow Eames compact sofas by Herman Miller manage to coexist in perfect harmony with cherry red Vitra Panton heart chairs, not to mention the Josef Albers nesting tables in orange, blue, green and yellow.

Shellhammer explains that the design process is instinctive. "I feel when I decorate, I simply fill the place with things that we love, then make sense of these things by placing them throughout the house, often thematically by colour," he says.

It's a method that works. A black and white, zigzag-patterned rug provides the perfect graphic backdrop to two yellow vintage Eames aluminium lounge chairs. The red Emeco Coca-Cola chairs offer a splash of colour to the wood, colour and stone in the dining area; outside, the popping hues of the Quinze & Milan jellyfish chairs and ottomans look right at home against the vivid blue and green of the swimming pool and surrounding trees.