Sunday, February 10, 2013 Posted in Color
In just a few short days, we will be celebrating Valentine’s Day – which has started us thinking about the color red of beautiful roses, lacy heart-shaped chocolate boxes, and frilly Valentine cards. So, how do we use red in decorating our homes? While red is a color that mixes well with many palettes...
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Turquoise is a slightly greenish tone of light blue which is based on the gem turquoise. The term comes from the French for Turkish. This particular combination which places turquoise into the color wheel right between blue and green makes it a friendly and happy color to which most people respond positively. Color psychologists have...
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012 Posted in Color
Bright colors are apparently still on trend. In 2010, Pantone, the global authority on color chose Turquoise, and in 2011, Honeysuckle, a bright pink was selected. And, now Tangerine Tango, a reddish orange shade was chosen for its happy connotations during dark economic times. The color experts at the Pantone Color Institute focused on this...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010 Posted in Color
It seems that every week or so we are notified about seminars and webinars on color and paint. We wrote about the webinar from Sherwin- Williams a few weeks ago in which we learned about new color trends for 2010, and just the other day we attended a program which was hosted by our friends...
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While some people desire a streamlined, simplistic, even Zen-like home where “less is more”, that is not the case for everyone, including our client Bill, whose decorating mantra is quite the opposite. Bill has lived in his modest home in Carnegie for his entire life, and finally, he was able to change the somewhat...
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Friday, January 8, 2010 Posted in Color
A few weeks ago we sat down at our computers and took an interesting continuing education course presented by Sherwin –Williams Paints. This course, entitled Color and Design Trends 2010, was an introduction to four new color palettes meant to evoke the creative spirit and which have been inspired by cultural bases. Sherwin – Williams...
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