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 [...]

The last thing you’ve probably got on your mind right now is Thanksgiving.  You’re busy with squeezing every last drop out of summer, with pool parties and baseball games, and entertaining outdoors.  You may not be thinking of Thanksgiving right now, but you will be.  Soon your attention will shift back indoors, and you’ll ask [...]

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 [...]

I love dessert!  Cakes, cupcakes, brownies, pies, cobblers, you name it — I love them all.  I love dessert almost as much as I love paint. As I savored the orange sponge cake with strawberry filling that I’d baked this afternoon, I thought about the colors and textures of desserts, and wondered why can’t we [...]