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The Best Paint Colours for Your Oak and Maple Cabinetry

09/01/2015
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Do you have oak or maple cabinetry? DO NOT pick a paint colour to coordinate without reading this guest post from Kelly Bernier, a True Colour Expert from beautiful Rhode Island. She’s sharing a lesson directly from my Specify Colour with Confidence course (which is $200 off right now, with the special offer code at the end of this post).

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The Minimalist Guide to Decorating with Charcoal

05/23/2015
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Photos by Maria Killam Recently, I had a consultation with a client who needed help creating a colour palette for her new home. She didn’t want to make the same mistakes she had made in the past and was looking for a plan. She sent me this inspiration photo for her house:  {via pinterest} I spent a few minutes…

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A Good Professional is like a GPS but Better

05/15/2015
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Tuscany When was the last time you got lost? If you’re anything like me, you’re tempted to say it’s been awhile. Technology has made getting lost pretty much impossible. If we take even one wrong turn, Google Maps will frantically start recalculating to put us back on course before we hit the next intersection. It feels like a relief to those…

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When White Walls are the ONLY Solution

04/30/2015
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{via pinterest} In the very beginning of my design career I was fortunate enough to have some great mentors. One was a very talented designer who probably couldn’t tell you about undertones but she had amazing spidey senses when it came to choosing colour. As designers working in a paint store, our job was to book in-home appointments with customers…

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True Colour Experts Know Colour

03/09/2015
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In the fall of 2012, Gwen Debruyn, the proprietress and designer behind Bayberry Cottage, came to Toronto from Michigan to attend my Specify Colour with Confidence™ course. She was a delight to have in my class. At the end of the first day, she said “Only two more days!” On the second day, she said, “So sad,…

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My Creative Business Model and How it’s Evolved

02/22/2015
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{maybe not this cold}  Some of you may have noticed that my posts have shifted considerably over the past few months to less rather than more. In the last year with all the time I’ve spent sitting in freezing cold hotel ballrooms looking at my business and thinking about what to do to make it…

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Comparison is Just Trouble (Here’s How to Get it Right)

10/05/2014
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The best part of my Specify Colour with Confidence™ training is the hands-on exercises. Students learn first, how to show their clients the colour they are suggesting is the right one, and second, they learn how to explain why it’s correct. And not just for wall colours. . . My recent on-line consult (above) her adorable little boy…

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