How to Choose Colour

source Last summer I drove out to a house in the country where the drywall had just been installed and my client was ready for colours.  She had this bookcase/library in the garage waiting to be installed in the great room. Restoration Hardware To ensure that there was enough contrast between the paint colour we…

People often ask me ‘who names the colours in a fan deck’?  Quite often in a colour consultation when we’re looking at 2 colours and both are equally as good because they are so close, sometimes the name of the colours decides it for us. Doesn’t San Francisco Bay (BM802) sound like a pretty blue? …

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…

How many times have you been in a store looking at a piece of furniture or a toss cushion and wondered if it coordinated with your existing colour scheme.  This happens to me when I’m shopping for clothes. I wonder if the top will match the shoes I have at home and every time I…