How many colors should you use in a color scheme in a room?This is a very popular interior color question from our readers. So I thought I would share my ideas with you. Using more than five colors My usual reply is that there are no hard and fast rules, (here it comes) BUT more …
Wallpaper can completely transform a room. I recently visited a friend who had purchased an older home that had been renovated and painted throughout. It looked clean and crisp, but it lacked something. My friend got to work and “went to town” with wallpaper. What a transformation. It reinforces my ideas on using pattern, texture …
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Do Feature Walls Still Spin Your Wheels? This is going to be a short blog post as I want you to comment on what you think about feature walls. I recently visited a house, it is about 10 years old and crammed with feature walls. I found the hairs on my arms rise as I …
How to Walk Your Client I hear you say – “what?” I know it sounds weird but I am quite serious. You need to learn to walk your client through the design process. This means starting from scratch as if they a complete design virgins. And like life, they will never tell you if they …
Helping Hand for Creating Color Schemes Creating color schemes sounds like an easy thing to do. Just look at a few swatches and pick a few colors! I once met a designer, who did exactly that, and I can tell you that the end result was awful. All the work that had gone into the …
Choosing Color By Name – A Good Decision or Not? I have just come back from a meeting to choose some colors for an office fitout, and I am amazed. I must say after all the years of choosing colors for interiors, I have just been introduced to a new method. This method has no …
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