About: charlenemarx
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- Charlene is an ASID certified interior designer working with MyPerfectColor.com on color research, color consultations and blogging. See her color combinations on MyPerfectColor.com.
Posts by charlenemarx:
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Match Your Monitor
Relying on technology to specify colors is like holding a paint chip to the sky to match its blue: Precision is just out of reach and always will be. That doesn’t mean you can’t come close. Experimenting with color online can be a useful tool and help give confidence to that person who isn’t so [...]
24 Mar 2011 in paint colors
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“Feel The Burnt” Sienna…
Color dictates everything – even our moods to play, work, create, exercise, etc…. Summer is finally here so lets get that urge to workout flowing!!Its never to late in the season to get in shape, mold the bod, get bikini-ready, build biceps. That’s great except most people I know barely have time to think never mind pack up [...]
21 Jul 2009 in paint colors
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Rebound Re-design
I never expected it to happen. The guy I love decides its over, suddenly, without notice. Drops the bomb, moves out and leaves me and my kids alone having to fall back into life without him. Familiar story to many of us-filled with days of tears, fears and ice cream. But just for a while… Then [...]
31 Mar 2009 in paint colors
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A Good Time To Nag….
I try not to consider myself a “nagger” to my husband. Will I ask for help or try to nudge him to do the things I can’t? Sure… The key to success is to go after the big ticket items (painting, re-doing a room, hanging shelves, etc…) at the RIGHT TIME. Which is NOW!!! Think about [...]
10 Feb 2009 in paint colors
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Tricky Transitions
Always a difficult task, transition spaces in homes are tricky to design, decorate or color. Hallways, stairways, foyers, etc… are meant to transfer people from one space to the next. As such, they can be problematic to decorate since they “touch” other rooms in the home. The paint color and design colors schemes should work [...]
06 Jan 2009 in paint colors
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Scheming Color Schemes…
We all have tricky rooms that need a little “help” with color to manipulate its negatives into positives. Large, empty rooms that feel vacant and cold. Rooms with little natural light. Walls with cracks or damage to the sheetrock. Awkward shaped rooms or rooms with low ceilings. You know what I mean and probably have [...]
23 Dec 2008 in paint colors
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Color Inspiration
Color Inspiration An easy way to determine a good color scheme for your room is to find what we designers refer to as our “central source”. That is the fabric, pillow, painting, quilt, rug, etc.. that exists in your room that has the greatest impact on you- what you love looking at. Use that to [...]
23 Dec 2008 in paint colors
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The New Gray…Simply Soothing Paint Color
Color is on the move. The bold, saturated hues that have dominated palettes for the past few seasons are yielding to more complicated, toned-down shades. Our eyes are ready to relax and fall into dustier, more interest provoking undertones. Gray is the new MVP in the palette- it has an increasing role in cooling down [...]
26 Sep 2008 in paint colors
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Design Through The Eyes Of A Tween…
If I could redo my room I would put cork board and chalkboard paint behind my bed, covering the whole wall. I would put a corkboard behind my bed because I am a Disney Channel addict! I would hang up all my favorite stars, for example Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus. I would also hang up pictures [...]
09 Sep 2008 in paint colors
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Don’t Shop When You’re Hungry, Don’t Select Paint When You’re Moody…
Chips. Salsa. Cookies. Crackers. Donuts. Soda….Did you ever spend WAY too much money at the grocery store when you shopped while starving? Me, too. Uncontrollable urges to eat poorly trump the logic of healthy eating when you are famished in the misdst of snacks in aisle 7. One would say this rule may apply to [...]
05 Sep 2008 in paint colors
