Maria Killam's Black Friday Gift Guide

Transform your home with expert color guidance this Black Friday during the biggest sale ever! Whether you’re a homeowner seeking the perfect paint colour or guidance on your finishes -OR- a designer looking to elevate your skills, you’ll save up to 50% OFF these premium tools, courses and design services!

It’s here–my annual Black Friday Sale and this year it really is our BIGGEST sale ever! No coupon code needed. Start shopping here.

🎁 The BEST gift for anyone who has to choose a paint colour!

If you’ve been eyeing my colour board collections, now is the time to buy them. They will never be this price again! Costs of production are up and we can’t continue to offer them at this price.

Colour boards will NEVER be this price again!

They are made with high quality poster board so you can MOVE them around, which is exactly how you’re going to know if you’ve got the right colour that will make your heart sing every time you walk in the door!

Plus if you want to be the one you’re friends call when they need to pick a paint colour or you’re a design professional working with clients, there is nothing MORE IMPRESSIVE than pulling out these colour boards. Plus, they will last FOR YEARS.

Each set also comes with a neutral colour wheel:

You’ll also need both my ebooks to learn the Killam Colour System, and this week they are 50% off!

Also, you can access all my online courses inside my True Colour Insider community via a monthly membership, but if you’d like to own them forever, they are 40% off during this sale.

🎁 The BEST gift for anyone who’s decorating a room or planning a home project

I’ve been talking a lot about creating mood boards and how important they are for decorating, but did you know they are just as critical if you’re choosing finishes for a renovation or new build?

This was a bathroom (below right) I was recently sent by a follower who said:

“Help! I didn’t know what my toilet would look like beside my vanity until it was all installed and now that it’s all here, I’m trying to save it with wallpaper is there anything else I can do?”

Nothing more needs to be said here. This picture speaks a thousand words. I was talking to a client the other day who is sourcing furniture for her office and she said what a lot of people think:

“It’s hard to know online what shade they are exactly”

Well, once you assemble everything onto a board, you can get pretty darn close.

I mean no one wants to return this stuff once it’s arrived on your doorstep, AMIRIGHT?

How much stuff do you keep because it’s too much of a pain to return? Or worse, it’s not returnable.

🎁 The BEST gift for anyone that’s shopping for home decor

Here’s the thing, back in the olden days we shopped in person for everything. This way you could carry fabric samples and paint chips with you so that you could confirm you’d picked the right colour BEFORE you schlepped it home.

Or even if you didn’t shop with paint chips or other samples, it was much easier to return items next time you were out.

But now? Returns are a total pain in the you know what.

You have to go online, find the right email, go to the website, login, print labels, box things up again, find the tape. Ugh.

How many times have you just talked yourself into keeping it because you didn’t want to go through all that??

And nowadays, because we do buy almost everything online, being able to create a mood board has become an absolute necessity!

And, I’ll teach you how to do it in 3 easy-to-consume video tutorials! So you can limit the number of times you have to “return to store.”

They said it better than I could…

This is a review we just received:

“Well, it seems to me that putting a mood board together is fairly simple but some of the shopping tips were quite useful. I see now the logic behind “putting a room together” than just throwing a gold pillow on a black couch and calling the room “done”.

Are there any online shopping concepts that you wish had been included in this course?

Not really, I think it was a super-great course… Only no free biscuits (I had to supply my own cookies…)

And my Exterior Masterclass is also 40% off, and here’s the number 1 reason why you should own it:

To avoid the house that looks like everyone else.

Now hear me out, I get that this choice seems easy and you might be dead set on it even though you’re following me. But, did you know that’s because it’s easier to talk someone INTO something than talk them OUT of a decision they’ve already made. Think about that.

I would just think twice at this point–eight years into the trend–on choosing either of these homes (below) because once this trend is over for the masses (which will be shortly) you will experience black and white fatigue.

Look around you. It’s in every restaurant, house, commercial building, home decor products everywhere, and in the end, you’ll wish you had less of it in your house. Trust me.

This self-paced online course is 18 video lessons that cover everything from gutters to siding, to the most timeless stone and even patio pavers. It’s your one-stop-shop for learning about all things exterior.

And if you’re re-considering black or white but still want a neutral? I got you–you just need to be able to review all the pale and versatile neutrals and choose something unique to you.

🎁 The BEST gift for anyone choosing a new floor

Are you making plans to replace your flooring but are stuck on which one is timeless?

Or worse, you think you know (because you’re following me) but because you’re comparing flooring samples it’s hard for you to know anymore which one is right?

My flooring guide is available but ONLY THIS WEEK!

Get the answer at the LOWEST price! Grab this Timeless Flooring Guide to get the answer. And if you’re installing wood look tile or LVP, it includes that info as well.

🎁 The BEST gift for anyone starting or growing a design business in 2025?

Then there’s my Business of Colour and Business of eDesign online courses. If you want to start a colour consulting or decorating business, these courses are exactly what you need to get started. Ideally you should just join my community because in addition to FREE access to these courses, you’ll also get my weekly training sessions where you’ll learn how to implement my system in the real world.

One question our community members had was that they were surprised to see that I don’t ALWAYS use my curated system of colours when specifying paint colours, so we had a training session walking through step-by-step how to use the colours in my system to first identify the undertone (of the stone, brick, tile, etc) and then how to work from there to find the right colour.

And if you’re a True Colour Expert reading this, you’re eligible to be a member of the Verified True Colour Expert level where we have weekly Friday morning coaching calls.

This past week Tricia (my Director of eDesign) and I dissected several kitchens that the community was talking about. We chatted about why and how the paint colours were chosen.

This community gives you a weekly deep dive into decorating that you can’t get anywhere else.

Ever had a client fire you or ask for their money back because they weren’t happy with what you presented?

Well in this community you’ll be able to ask for feedback to make sure that never happens again. I’ve been doing this for 25 years, I know what is missing in your design. So, if you are interested in shortening your learning curve, this is the place to be.

What is that kind of coaching worth? To anyone looking to be a better colour designer, it’s priceless.

It took me years and years to figure this stuff out on my own! And I can fast-track the path for you!