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How to Choose Colour

Colour Needs Context

05/11/2009
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A paint colour by itself is neither warm or cool, clean or dirty. Because the ONLY way to describe colour is by comparing it to another. If you’re trying to help a client with a paint colour (or choose one yourself) you need context. Let me explain. Pottery Barn Colour Needs Context The best explanation…

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The Right way to Create Flow using Colour

03/17/2009
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Thank you to the Washington Post for including this post in your blog watch, March 19, 2009! When a client calls me to inquire about a colour consultation, here’s the question they need answered more than anything else: How do you create flow, and how do you transition the colour from one room to another?…

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Clean vs. Dirty Colours

11/09/2008
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Recently, my sister Elizabeth and I went to the Spaghetti Factory for lunch. Of course it’s always easy to be a critic and I was looking around at the colours (like I always do) and noticed that the yellow was sooooo wrong in this restaurant. There’s the rusty red woodwork and doors, dark green ceilings…

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Effect of Natural Light Exposures on Colour

11/01/2008
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Metamerism: When 2 items look the same under one light source such as daylight, but change dramatically when viewed under a different light source such as incandescent lighting. Northern Exposure adds blue to a colour; East adds green; South adds yellow-white and washes out colour; while West adds Orange. This is an image (immediately below)…

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