I used their service with my kitchen remodel. It was an okay design but they didnÂt have any great ideas to show me. They just did a basic layout and left it up to me to ask for all the details. They also didn't want to do my layout idea so I ended up not using them. They did NOT want to refund but eventually did. For the design cost and the prices at HD Expo I had expected something more out of the ordinary. That was about 6 years ago.

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no i asked once a question on Decorist though...they have(or used to have? I stopped following a while ago) this "Ask a designer" thing...well, not that I got a bad answer, it was nice, and made sense and all, but I thought "okay..such advice I kinda can give myself..." I just didn't learn anything new. But it wasn't anybody famous..as far as I understand now they have collaborations with some very well known professionals out there.. And also, I asked for free:) I'm sure you will have much bigger level of involvement with the whole service etc.

This is Twyla. She is amazing. http://colorviewconsulting.com/ When I was doing consultations full time, I did the same prep for online consultations as I did for onsite. Had to get most of the work done in advance because it's too much to do at appointment time. There's a max of 2 hrs on site and about 1 hr on line. At the 1 or 2 hr mark you start losing people because it's a lot of work. Even tho I managed the overwhelm and got all chaos under control before hand, there's still a lot of work to do. If I didn't do prep in advance, then I'd use up too much time assessing the scope of work, going over where they've been, what they've tried, and where they want to go. In other words, with every client there's a mental bandwidth budget and I had to spend our time together wisely. Appointment time had to be about ideation and actionable items and it didn't matter if I was physically in your kitchen or if you were in your kitchen online Skyping with me. Your smartphone, monitor, laptop, tablet, all use a VERY small color space called sRGB to display colors. What that means is the number of colors a device is physically able to display is a SUPER tiny fraction of the number of colors we can see in real life. Therefore, when people claim that they are able to see "undertones", extraordinary color details and nuances, it is pure hyperbole. Fact of the matter is, it is impossible for average devices to display a wide gamut of color. A wide range of colors, alleged undertones, and detailed color aspects are just not there see. They’re not there for ANYBODY to see – experienced designer, gifted eye, trained eye, or whatever. Photos are good for getting a sense of light/dark value balance in a space, contents in the room, volume of space, and fenestration. When you use spectral data like Twyla does, you look at the room, light, and contents from a different perspective. Every space will offer up clues about the quality of light you have to work with. Because it's color DNA, the process for interpreting those clues is the same whether you're on site or working virtually -- the process, the system for developing custom color strategies is the same. Ultimately, the final color decisions have to be made by the homeowner. If I did my job defining and explaining the best options, then I didn't need to be standing in the same room in order for them to make them. Hope that helps.