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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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Should You Install Gray Wood Floors?

08/18/2014
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The first day of my Specify Colour with Confidence™ Training is my favourite. It’s when all the participants of my courses have their biggest transformation about understanding colour and undertones. But before they experience this transformation, I set up the entire three days of training with a conversation about magic, about selling the right colour, about selling…

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Need an Extra Window Somewhere? (Do This Instead)

07/15/2014
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  When I saw this living room designed by True Colour Expert™ and Interior Designer Jennifer Reynolds my first thought was: “Look at those beautiful drapes! Wait, are the windows smaller than the drapery? No, it’s art in between each set of panels!” Here’s what it looked like before: Before You could also simply hang…

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A New Way to Design Accent tile: Ceramic Architecture

06/28/2014
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I first learned the term ‘ceramic architecture’ when the VP of Waterworks gave a presentation and I wrote this post afterwards about perfect vs. perfectly nice bathrooms. When I searched ‘ceramic architecture’ on google, I was fascinated that absolutely nothing comes up with regard to tile layouts. As many of you know, accent tile has a bad…

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Check out my Latest Video on Colour Confidence

04/04/2014
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I have a new video on my Specify Colour with Confidence™ Training! I was at a business conference this past weekend and realized that my current video really wasn’t great at explaining the true value of my course, so I re-wrote it. (Well truthfully, once I figured out how it should be done, changing my…

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