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Understanding Undertones

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04/17/2014
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View from this house (below) Some of you may remember when I did 37 days of Undertones in the summer of 2012 on Facebook. Many of you got a lot out of it so I’ve been thinking about a way to do something else, but with a different twist. So here’s what we’re going to…

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Sherwin Williams Sample Board Giveaway

02/11/2014
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  SW Agreeable Gray I’m very excited to announce that as we speak, I am getting large sample boards painted in Sherwin Williams best greys and whites. There will be 25 per set and they should be ready by the end of the month! I have received many requests for large samples in SW colours,…

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How I Discovered my System of Understanding Undertones™

07/28/2013
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Have you ever wondered exactly how I discovered my system of Understanding Undertones™ that I teach to designers, decorators, architects, home stagers and colour enthusiasts from around the world? I didn’t see the subtle undertones in neutrals myself until I started using large colour boards. So really, they are a huge contribution to the existence…

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Rules for Colors

07/09/2013
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Well I’m kicking off the first day of Learn How to Specify Colour for Interiors Summer School tomorrow with my Rules for Whites, Rules for Neutrals and Rules for Colour. Then we’ll jump right in to learning my 7 basic principles and questions I always have in my back pocket at every consultation.

Next week will be a step-by-step to choosing colour in every area of your home, what to paint and what can’t be painted.

Here’s a sneak peek of one of the colour rules:

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An Open Letter to all Paint Companies

02/15/2013
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Alright my lovelies, it’s time to literally shake things up in the paint world! Wake Up! It’s 2013! Most of you are so behind with your colours it’s totally painful. I conduct on-line colour consultations all over the world and I use your fan decks. Before I can even look up a colour on some…

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Are Natural Fiber Rugs Neutral?

01/19/2013
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I am so thrilled to be guest posting at Cote de Texas where she also reviewed my ebook today! Joni’s living room I received this question a while ago and since one of Joni’s signature looks includes seagrass rugs, I thought it would be a perfect guest post for blog. Check it out here. One…

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How to be Smart in a World of Dumb Designers

01/15/2013
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Recently, I received this very generous email from one of my lovely readers (no names will be used here), who said I was welcome to share her story: I have made literally every mistake in the remodeling book! I really do not like to complain, I dislike myself for being negative this way…but my mind cannot…

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How to Disappear a Bad Beige

10/04/2012
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Paint the walls so dark that it takes all the attention away from your carpet, tile or furniture that is the wrong neutral. source All you notice in the dark and dramatic interiors of Atelier Abigail is the drama. Beige? What beige? Do you dare go this dark? Related posts: Beige is only Blah when…

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Are Patterned Sofas Trendy? Yay or Nay

08/29/2012
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One of my lovely readers Becky, sent me this email earlier this week: yesterday in the New York Times Mag I noticed an ad for a couch from sofa.com….a British Company that is now in the Big Apple.The sofa has two different types of upholstery, one on the base, another on the cushions…photo of sofa…

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My Sister’s Fresh New Backsplash: Before & After

08/26/2012
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My sister Elizabeth inherited her kitchen with glazed creamy cabinets, chocolate brown walls (that’s what they were before we painted the walls CA100 Beechwood or BM HC-45 Shaker Beige or PPG 414-4 Dusty Trail) and a very busy and blotchy laminate countertop. The first thing we changed was the colour soon after they moved in….

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What’s an Undertone?

08/04/2012
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    Green beige walls, butterscotch sisal carpet (source)     The first semester I taught Colour Theory, I was well into a long talk about colour and specifically the many undertones of colour. All was going well (or so I thought) until one brave soul at the back of the class tentatively raised her…

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37 Days of Learning Undertones

07/26/2012
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I’m starting up a series on my Facebook Fan page. Many of you who have read my eBook have emailed me asking for more lessons on seeing undertones. That eBook is coming but it’s hard because I can’t use any old image (I have to own it) and I can’t exactly email a designer or…

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