Choosing paint colors can be challenging for anyone. Even as a designer, I’m faced with thousands of paint choices when selecting the perfect color.  I was intrigued when I first saw Benjamin Moore’s Color Stories™. Traditional paint fan decks (which make me feel like a kid in a candy store just opening one,) represent over [...]

I may have mentioned in the past that I love driving around and looking at homes. There is something so beautiful about a home that just shines from the curb.  Any home, from a tiny bungalow to a sprawling estate, can have that curb appeal star quality.  In my work helping people prepare their house [...]

One of my favorite low-cost projects to spruce up a home, is painting the front door.  It’s an easy way to express your style, without making a major change to the exterior of your home.  For those of us who love decorating our porches for the seasons, a painted door makes a great backdrop for [...]

I’m a morning person. If the day greets me with sunlight and singing birds, all is well in my world. What if I open my eyes and instead see gray, dark, skies? Or what if you’re not a morning person by nature?  Can we create that happy, perky, leap-out-bed smiling feeling with color?  Yes we [...]

Man Cave. This is one of those rooms that needs no other description. Two little words can conjure up an entire genre of decorating.  Of course, what goes into that man cave changes with the man that will be dwelling in there. Probably the man cave of the past, was the garage. Filled with tools, [...]

Remember in the 2000s when we all painted our dining rooms red?  Red was the color of choice for dining rooms all across the World.  Dining rooms were the one room where you could really express your formality, even if the rest of your home was casual.  Red is an energetic color, and known to [...]

Right around February I start feeling overwhelmed and under-inspired by the dark skies, and lack of colors in the world around me.  Being in the Pacific Northwest presents a special challenge for a California girl like me. I love color, I love sunshine, both of which are in short supply in the winter in all [...]

February is the perfect month for taking up with the color red.  Valentine’s Day and love are often celebrated with red roses and red boxes full of chocolates, right?!  But what other emotions does red evoke?  Red is an energizing color, strong and powerful, and full of drama.  Red is thought to increase heart rate [...]

Over the last few years, we’ve all been inundated with design ideas featuring a ‘neutral palette’.  From design TV shows to magazine articles….neutrals seem to be everywhere.  A recent client of mine said that she wanted to choose a similar neutral color scheme for her home, but she didn’t want it to feel too monotone [...]

Every year the color expert Pantone releases their pick for the “Color of the Year”. Most of the design world waits with anticipation for this big announcement…..and uses the color to full advantage in all aspects of design. This year Pantone chose the color Tangerine Tango – a rich orange that is bold and striking. [...]