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What Colour Should Your Boots be?

09/19/2011
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source Denise Turner, Janice Lindsay, Roz Kavander and Maria Killam Me and some of my colour friends at the Saturday night dinner. Kohler Nicole Wittwer, a Product Manager at Kohler reported that recently during a trade show where they were launching their new collection, Tresham, this image was displayed at one of their booths. People started…

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What do you do when the Right Colour doesn’t feel Right?

07/15/2011
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I recently received this question from a reader and I thought it would make a great blog post. Pinterest “We’ve got bossy dark carpet, low light, and mismatched furniture; these problems are not going away on our current budget or all at once, but I’m attempting to minimize them in various ways. The problem is the only color…

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Is Colour the Best Neutral? Yay or Nay

03/07/2011
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Brown trend > Gray trend (source) For months now in most of my consultations in-person or on-line all over the country in US and Canada, my clients have been asking for the same thing.  And it is this: “How can I eradicate beige and caramel/orange tones from my home and replace it with the cooler…

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My Take on Pantone’s Colour of 2011: Honeysuckle

12/11/2010
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The news is out, Honeysuckle is Pantone’s colour of 2011.  Since I’ve been talking about Pink for a while now (and it’s the accent colour in my living room) it’s kind of cool that it’s officially a ‘colour of the year’. Pantone “In times of stress, we need something to lift our spirits. Honeysuckle is…

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What’s Next in Colour & Design for 2011

11/13/2010
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All 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…

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6 Rules for Painting Trim; Light or Dark

11/09/2010
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Everyone 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,…

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Top Two Trends from High Point

10/30/2010
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Clayton 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…

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Colour Trends are Important; Yay or Nay

09/22/2010
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There seems to be two camps in the colour industry.  Colourists (CMG) who believe colour trends are important and critical for products, cars, etc and Colourists (IACC/NA) who think choosing colour based on trends is just plain uneducated.  Since I’m a member of both, I agree with both sides and there’s a context for each…

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Do you Follow the 10 Year Rule?

09/16/2010
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  You know the stuff you pull out when your friends or family come over that was a gift and you don’t want to hurt their feelings to suggest you don’t like it, so you display it when they arrive? How about the one-off candle holders you get as presents (everyone gets those). Or, just…

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Will you be Incorporating this Trend for 2010?

07/10/2010
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I fell in love with this Image on Cote de Texas’ post yesterday; click here to read and see the before, it’s such a transformation! Even my favourite leather sofas are here! The drama of the urn on the tree stump table is the best part of this room in my opinion. Then my House &…

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