Unlike Maria’s Exterior Colour Selection Masterclass, this is not pre-recorded. THIS IS A FULLY-IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE. Maria will lead the course live from her studio office and you can expect her to be just as high energy on your computer screen as she is in person 😉

You will be invited to a private Zoom meeting and will receive a link for the two-day online course. All you need to join is desktop or laptop computer with reliable internet access, a webcam, and speakers with good volume. The interactive experience just isn’t the same via a cell phone.

Maria loves to connect personally with her students and that means she needs to see your lovely face – so it will be MANDATORY to turn on your camera during the virtual workshop. There will also be time to interact with your fellow classmates during some of the exercises. We promise this makes it more fun!

YES!! When you complete these two days of training including all the in-class exercises, you will see colour differently. We’ll send you  a certification as a True Colour Expert™, which includes a digital badge for your website and social media accounts.

Need Interior Design CEUs?

You will earn 14 IDCEC Accredited CEUs (7 for each day)

Want to learn more about eDesign and Maria’s exact business model?

Try the Business of Colour or the Business of eDesign. They both include highly focused, on-demand video lessons that you can complete at your own pace. And, both of these online courses help you practice what you learned in this workshop to help you grow your existing design services or build a new business around colour.

The answer is YES!

But Maria, I’m not a professional. I’m just a regular person who wants a more beautiful home. My house is so basic and my budget is tight. I never know where to start and worry that I’ll just mess it up. Should I still enroll in Specify Colour with Confidence?

Can you relate? 

Rest easy. This course is usually made up of 50% design professionals (or those exploring a new career in design) and 50% homeowners who want to learn how to make the endless colour choices that come with owning a home – insights you can use forever. 

And let me just add this. If you want a beautiful home you’ll love forever – THIS WORKSHOP is for you!

Colour mistakes cost money. 

Whether you are a homeowner or a professional, knowing how to AVOID and FIX mistakes will SAVE you money, time and time again. In fact, fixing just one colour mistake likely saves you enough money to pay for this course. 

And hey, that’s good money that you can use to buy more lamps, I might add! Ha!

Definitely NOT! 🙌🏻

Your instincts are good, but your client still needs to know the “why.” And communicating this can be a challenge for both the new designer and the seasoned one.

In just two days, you’re going to know how to tell a client what’s missing or what’s wrong, and what they need to do to make it better. This is the confidence you need to communicate more directly with your clients – no matter where you are in your design career.

Let’s face it, a color consultation goes beyond choosing paint colors for a wall. Typically you’re also advising on the colors for furniture and decor in order to create a cohesive color scheme that flows throughout. You’ll learn how to harmonize both.

And when you apply my timeless design principles to your bathrooms and kitchens, you’ll have more freedom to express yourself through decorating and create a portfolio that’s truly everlasting.

But you may still be wondering if this investment really worth it?

I’ll walk you through the EXACT steps for making colour and design decisions from start to finish, for ANY project. Imagine what this kind of insight can do for your home? Your design business? Your new build?

Need Interior Design CEUs?

You will earn 14 IDCEC Accredited CEUs (7 for each day)

💰 And, finally here’s how my two-day workshop pays for itself. 

First, it’s the cost of one mistake. That’s easy math. For most it has a dollar amount. You never forget what it cost to replace that _________. Believe me, I’ve been there. There’s also an emotional cost – delays, frustration, OVERTHINKING. Been there too.

Second, being able to decorate around a finish you inherited (that you’re not in love with). Often, you’ll get much more out of decorating and styling a room WELL than by fixing expensive colour mistakes. 

Did you get that? You’ll learn the best way to freshen up your home when you can’t replace everything. You’ll learn to solve a variety of challenges with colours and finishes, so you can move forward – whether you’re working with a budget that’s basic or luxe. 

I’ve been helping clients pull together their spaces with both new and inherited finishes for over 20 years. I’ve seen it ALL. So, I know a thing or two about solving decorating challenges of all kinds. And, you’ll learn the exact same process I use in just two days.

The course is typically filled with 50% designers (or people wanting to switch to a design career) and 50% homeowners.

Now’s the time to carve out a niche for yourself as the go-to COLOUR expert in your area. 

Soaring real estate costs make colour consulting a necessity. Because when people stop building, they start renovating. If they don’t have the budget to replace cabinets, they paint. 

Your colour expertise will be more in demand now than ever before!

This workshop is jam-packed with tangible takeaways and practical techniques that you can use right now in your own home or a client’s home.

Maybe you’ve already devoured my blog, read my books or even taken one of my other online courses. But here’s something you might not know…

Showing up LIVE matters. Period.

The energy is different. The content feels different. Your understanding and implementation is different.

What I can promise you is one of the most useful real-time workshops you’ve ever been to. #pinkyswear

Nothing compares to the ⚡️ electricity ⚡️ of learning FROM MARIA LIVE (via Zoom) directly from your home or office. 🖥

Maria has been helping clients pull together their spaces with both new and inherited finishes for over 20 years. She’s seen it ALL. So, she knows a thing or two about solving decorating challenges of all kinds. And, you’ll learn the exact same process in just two days. 

What happens when you can…

• Make color decisions you won’t regret or get sick of 
• Solve challenging color situations more quickly
• Create a more styled and beautiful home that looks pulled together
• Learn how to make decisions for new builds and renovations
• Finally put into words what is wrong with a room and what will make it better

Imagine what you’ll learn SAVE by enrolling in this workshop. Not just dollar signs, but also the ability to stop overthinking EVERY decision and follow a simple and organized process. 

Currently, we do not have any plans to do that until the pandemic is well behind us.

We rescheduled our courses twice in 2020 and then worked very hard to make it just as powerful and transformative virtually as it was in person! And the feedback we received was overwhelmingly YES.

Still a major game changer in learning a system you can’t learn anywhere else. And you’ll receive your very own box of samples to use in the exercises and keep forever.

This course is all NEW and completely revised to reflect where the trends are RIGHT NOW.

We are thrilled to report that the feedback we received from our first virtual event in May was the same as the live events! This course has always been a game-changer in helping you choose or specify colour for everything in your home and it still is!

Your course materials will be delivered to your door and include a fan deck, colour chips, plus fabrics and tiles so you can touch, see and feel the undertones you are learning to master.

You’ll be able to do all of this without the extra expense of travel and hotels, all from the comfort of your own home or office.

The short answer is, No.

This is Maria’s own personal system she developed after performing thousands of design and colour consultations. No one else teaches these concepts, because no one else knows it!

Maria wrote her eBooks to widely share the principles of her system, and they are full of great information you can use right away. That’s why she includes them and asks that you read them prior to taking this course.

What makes Maria’s live virtual training so transformative is that you spend these two days working with real-life projects and exercises together. She will lead you through endless examples where she quizzes you, “What’s the undertone here?” and “What’s wrong with this room? How would you fix it?” Plus, this is the ONLY way to get her exclusive colour-training kit, delivered to your door, filled with cheat sheets and other surprises to help build your skills.

You will go beyond understanding colour principles to developing experience around CHOOSING colour. And you’ll leave with a level of confidence that would be hard to achieve alone, just by reading any book no matter how great it is.

If your business is struggling, you need to do something different. And, this colour training all but guarantees you’ll be able to ultimately enhance your service offerings with a niche in colour and neutrals.

When your customers and clients can see and feel your confidence, your business increases exponentially. We’ve seen it countless times with True Colour Expert graduates. You can command higher rates and work with your ideal clients (who not only pay you happily but also really listen to – and heed – your advice).

The short answer is NO.

This is my own personal system, developed after conducting thousands of colour and design consultations. You won’t find this training anywhere else in the world.

Also, you’ll notice that all the colour training you’ve had to date is colour theory which is primarily about combining colours. This workshop is strictly “Here’s how you do it in the real world, right now”.