In my colour consulting [in a paint store] days, customers would consistently come up to me (clutching one of the brochures with suggested colour combinations) and ask: “Can I alternate this colour chip with that one?” source And the answer was usually, YES. Colour combinations on interior and exterior brochures in paint stores are…
What is the Colour of Fun?
11/15/2010flickr At the CMG conference in 2010 we had a presentation called C20 where 20 colour professionals had one minute to present ‘What’s Next’. My favourite was Mark Woodman’s question: A day at the beach (flickr) He said he noticed from just observing the world around him that the colour of fun is NEVER beige. And he…
What’s Next in Colour & Design for 2011
11/13/2010All the Colour Professionals that gather at each CMG Conference arrive with their NOW Colours (colours they are using in their industry currently) and NEXT Colours (colours that clients are beginning to ask for that will be happening next). Photo by Maria Killam I arrived in Portland with time to spend walking around and taking…
I have a confession. I am so tired of looking at my empty walls and (as you know) the perfect piece of art takes time to find so when I was making my weekly rounds at Homesense last week I came across this one for $140 (marked down from $299). Well how could I resist?…
6 Rules for Painting Trim; Light or Dark
11/09/2010Everyone that has read my ‘The best Trim Colours—NOT Cloud White’ post is convinced that I think it’s a bad white, but that is simply not true. To recap that post, trim colours should be chosen based on the ‘fixed’ white in your home. So if your kitchen cabinets (for example) are anywhere from white,…
A Bad Day in the Life of a Colour Designer
11/08/2010I was in the best group today at the CMG Conference (here in Portland) talking about which colours will be NEXT. I’ll post more later but I had dinner tonight with Stephanie Fehrle who is the creative director in charge of a team of 9 for a company that designs gift bags for all the…
Road Trip to Portland
11/05/2010flickr Well I’m off tomorrow morning bright and early to the CMG Conference in Portland this weekend. I’m going to drive (I love a road trip) it’s only about 5 hours from Vancouver. I’m stopping in Seattle for 2 hours to do a little shopping with Angie from You Look Fab. I still want one…
Affordable Art
11/04/2010I fell in love with Shirley’s art when I was clicking on my Baskets & Poodles linky party from last week. I don’t know if all her art is as affordable as the little 5” x 5” paintings that she posts on her ‘One Painting every other day’ blog but here is some of the…
9 Lessons from a 2 year old Blogger
11/01/2010I started my blog because I had spent 2 days listening to webinars for designers on-line. One of them was about blogging. The speaker said every designer should have a blog. It’s the live version of your website and gives people a sense of your personality at the same time. It happened to be Halloween…
Top Two Trends from High Point
10/30/2010Clayton Gray Home Well I was going to skip this post but then I received an email from one of my readers letting me know that the little I had posted from my High Point trip was NOT ENOUGH 🙂 I had also come to the conclusion that a few of my blogger friends had…
Art post for Week #3; Baskets & Poodles
10/28/2010Okay, I may be the only one in love with this blog party idea of posting inexpensive (or better yet cheap and cheerful) ways to create art for your home. But I really don’t feel like I’m the most creative person in the world when it comes to inexpensive art. Really. I would just love…
I am seriously delayed in posting new dates for this course, but I’ve been working on some video clips. Don’t judge them too harshly, they are far from professional and although a lot of the course was taped by my fabulous assistant we only ended up with a few very short clips which were presentable….
Clients and the Law of Attraction
10/23/2010Last week when I posted this article, one of my readers emailed me and said “Sounds like you’ve had a recent very bad experience or maybe a series of sorta bad. . .” and I responded that I can count on one hand how many ‘bad’ experiences I have had with clients in my business…
What is Beauty? 3 Ways to Know
10/22/2010I attended a very interesting inquiry (called a Wisdom Salon) a few weeks ago at Landmark Education where we could only ask questions, no debating or rebuttals just questions. So first, it was opened by attempting to define beauty, and here are 3 ways to know ‘What is beauty?’: flickr 1. According to the Oxford…
Art from High Point
10/20/2010On the last full day I spent at High Point on Monday, I went to a few one-of-a-kind including antique stores with Lauren from Pure Style Home and her husband Dave. When we arrived at one little hole-in-the-wall antique store, Dave actually escorted us to the door from the parking lot (so sweet) because of…
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