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Do you Dream about Decorating your House?

05/06/2010
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Sometimes when I get to the “Here’s what my fees are” conversation with a client, they say “But I just need colour/s”. And it seems really simple and straightforward—like anybody could come over and just choose a colour. However, rarely do the people that hire me have a simple colour problem. If colour was all…

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The Best way to Update Peach

02/25/2010
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At a colour consultation a few years ago I walked into a white kitchen with those old cheap IKEA cabinets (their kitchens have come a long way) with a flat profile and simple white plastic knobs. The linoleum was peach along with the countertop and the backsplash was white 4 x 4 tile with a…

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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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A Colour Consultation with a Giveaway

07/15/2009
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Recently I was in a lovely home in West Vancouver for a Colour Consultation.  My client’s home was such a perfect example for a post,  I asked her  to send me a photo when the painting was complete.  The colour in this room was a bit too pink for her (above) so we picked a…

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How to make your Old Carpet look new using Colour!

05/24/2009
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One of my past students at Vancouver Community College, Nour Enayeh recently completed a decorating project with a Montessori school. This is the ‘after photo’ (the before is the second one). She said that the Montessori program believes that kids should not have a bunch of primary colours to distract them from their activities, so…

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Proof That I Don’t Judge When I’m Consulting with You

05/21/2009
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When a client hires a designer for a consultation, sometimes they find themselves apologizing for the state of their house. Perhaps because it’s dated (What? You mean we can’t all completely re-decorate every 5 years?) or messy, because of their children, or that it’s dirty, eg. there’s drywall dust everywhere, etc. source First of all,…

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