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Is your Flooring Bossing you Around?

01/15/2010
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Years ago I was at a colour consultation where the entire house had (like new) mint green carpets and my client informed me that her husband would not change them. The living room furniture was entirely a dark pinky beige, just like BM CC-330 Hillsborough Beige or SW 6094. Image source   What were the…

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Colour Trends for 2010

01/13/2010
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Next to Turquoise, Mardi Grape is the hot colour for 2010 as predicted by the Colour Marketing Group (of which I am a member) and one of the images from my website was used to illustrate this new colour story which was released right before Christmas 2009. Here’s the press release: Image source My monthly…

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How a Smart Colour Choice can Save you Money

01/09/2010
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Yesterday I had lunch with a former student who is also a painter and has done some work for me (she is excellent). I asked her how involved she gets in helping clients with colour and she says many of them totally rely on her expertise. She told me that one lesson she took away…

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Does a Nice Neutral Exist?

01/07/2010
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I helped one of my former students [Amber Beall] get a position as a Colour Designer at a local Benjamin Moore store here in town. We have become great friends and recently met for dinner. She said “I get so tired of hearing, ‘I just want a nice neutral’, because there is no such thing’”….

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Interview with Colour Expert; Annie Elliott

01/06/2010
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Annie Elliott is the blogger/designer behind the colour blog, Bossy Color. And she is bossy, but in a charming way (as I always say when my friends call me bossy :). I almost think that trait is part of being a designer as we are paid for our opinion! Annie is based out of Washington…

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Do you Dance on New Years Eve?

01/01/2010
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I woke up feeling a little cranky today and then when I spoke to my mom she said “Don’t worry, there’s a full moon tonight and a blue moon!” Which one of my blogging friends, Bette, talked about here in her lovely blog, Ideezine. Do you ever notice a shift in your mood around the…

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Colour me Happy’s top 10 posts

12/28/2009
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In June I posted my 10 favourite articles from the first 6 months of the year here. Every time I come across one I like I save it in a folder, so here are my 10 favourites from July until now: 1) Cote de Texas –Top Ten Design Elements #2 [Slipcovers] Joni Webb writes this…

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The Best of Colour me Happy 2009

12/26/2009
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Here are the top 10 most read posts since I started writing this blog in November 2008. The first one I wrote within two weeks and has remained the #1 most popular post on my blog. 1. White Kitchen Cabinets This post has also turned into a Dear-Abby-which-white-should-MY-Cabinets-be? There’s lots of free advice in the…

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Have a Colourful, Happy Holiday

12/24/2009
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I received this beautiful e-card from one of my clients this week so I had to share it with you! Thank you so much for reading my blog, for your comments and emails that keep me going! This blog has become such a huge part of my expression in the world that I can’t imagine…

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All About [Hermes] Orange

12/22/2009
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Lately I have been in love with Hermes orange, and then I realized it could be considered a festive as well because it’s also the colour of tangerines which you only get at Christmas! The following is mostly from Leatrice Eisman’s book All About Colour: ‘Did you know there was no word for orange in…

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Do you need an Accent Wall? Take this Test

12/19/2009
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I am not an accent-wall-happy colourist. Personally I think they are mostly dated (from the 80’s & 90’s). The minute I say this, I know I’ll get emails with questions starting with, ‘I know you don’t like accent walls, but what do you think. . . ?’ So I’m starting this post with a disclaimer;…

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Happiness is. . . A new movie by Nancy Meyers

12/19/2009
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‘I’m the last person to claim that I invent this stuff. I look at every magazine and book that I can get my hands on. I feel like I scouted every house in the Hamptons, and we put together the best of what we saw.’ Jon Hutman [Production Designer] on Somethings Gotta Give movie set…

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