Inspired yet?

Inspiration for painting a room.....

Does it come easily to you?

Where does yours come from?

Sometimes you inherit or buy an item that lets you build a room around its colors.

Multiple Color Pallet

Sometimes you inherit a previous owner's paint color you know you don't want.

Lot o' Orange

Nature can make color combinations make a lot of sense.

Winter Sunset

Pastels don't have to only be pink or blue.  Light taupe, gray, purple, or buttery yellow can add soft color to a room.

Summer Sky

Crisp, clear colors can add life to a room.  Sometimes muted or grayed colors just look dull or muddy.  Lighting plays a key role.

Double Rainbow

After a rain storm Mother Nature shows off a classic collection of hues.

The tricky part of mixing colors can be combining the right tones of colors so the result is pleasing, not clashing.  

The 60-30-10 rule of main color, second color and accent helps keep a room or combined spaces from looking like a box of crayons exploded.

If the whole process is still overwhelming bring in a professional color consultant.  We can help you decipher and explain what colors will work together in your space based on your inspiration piece or envisioned look.


Best~
Jill

Inspiration~What is Yours?

What inspires you to add or change items and color to a room in your home? 

Daunting thought? It doesn't have to be. In fact you probably have a single item that you just love and it can be the jumping point for finding a new color for the room.  The key is that the new color(s) relate to something in the room so everything fits into place.

We made our basement into a second family room/game room.  Talk about a blank slate!  Here's our inspiration piece:

Keeping the area light, but with color, I used the rug to find the wall, ceiling, trim, accent wall and accessories colors.  Here's how it turned out:

 

The walls' colors are Benjamin Moore's Yellow Squash and Patriot Blue, drywalled part of ceiling is in hazelnut cream (5th wall we'll talk about in another blog). 

This room is one of my examples I can use with clients to show that a color may look beige in the store under florescent lights, but in my actual space the color looks yellow with a very slight hint of peach.  The red (peach) undertones keep the color from looking plain beige or from hollering yellow.

The blue is a very dark blue, but looks lighter and brighter up on the accent wall.  Please see a past post (here) about colors not looking dark on the wall compared to the paint chip.

The color depth on this wall makes the pictures more dimensional than against a lighter color.

Accessories using related colors to the inspiration piece

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inspiration piece

Maintenance free orchid~best kind for a low natural light family room.

So, still daunting to figure out which color direction your inspiration piece can take you?  Contact me to set up a color consultation appointment and we'll make that part of the project easy breezy.

Best~

Jill

Petoskey Stone

Michigan's state stone is the Petoskey Stone.  As a kid my family vacationed at a family friend's cottage and we would walk miles along Lake Huron's sandy shores in search of these beautiful stones.  We would collect them and paint clear nail polish over the dry stone to bring out the fossil details.