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Comments (33)I thought about this question while reading an old issues of British Home last night. A designer's home was featured and she said that while as a designer, she usually only gets "one shot" at decorating an entire house and does so, but in her own home, she has the luxury of time to allow the different rooms to evolve. I totally agree with her! While I am a designer, I am usually called in to "pick up the crumbs" of other designers when one room needs freshening. The closeest to doing an entire house was my daughter's new house (new to her) 17 years ago. We re-did nearly every room, but many where done in the same colors as her NYC apt as she was re-using curtains/furniture from it. We really only started from scratch in the entrance hall, LR and DR. It's very hard to give a house a "soul" when one does it all at once, but that is what clients often want...and you won't hear from them again for 15-18 yrs when they want a complete do-over with everything new. I have the luxury of not having to work with such clients. Of course, I've never had to earn a living doing interior design - as I said "the luxury"....See MoreWhole house color scheme help
Comments (67)Couple of suggestions for sampling colors Buy a pad of 240 lb watercolor paper Prime one wall or section of wall Paint your samples on the watercolor paper Hang the watercolor paper on the primed wall and look at no more than 2 at a time. Painting samples over your existing color makes you compare the color to the existing color. Colors don't play alone, they play with the other colors in their space. If one of the other colors won't be there you don't want to see how they play together. The color in the middle of each block of color is the same color....See MoreCan I mix neutral paint colors in a whole house paint scheme?
Comments (3)Natural Cream and Maritime White are so similar I wonder if you'd be able to tell that they're two different colors. They both belong to the Yellow hue family. When it comes to the theory that colors have undertones - especially paint colors - you should know that everyone is making that up as they go. Colors don't *have* undertones. It's not a fact. Undertones are just someone's subjective opinion of how a color looks under unspecified light sources in some random context. Which means no one can get a color's undertone wrong because it's however it actually looks in their opinion. When we compare the factual color attributes (think of it as color DNA) Natural Cream and Maritime White are very similar. You don't have to understand the numbers in the table in order to see just how similar they are. Basically the only difference is Value/LRV which is why I wonder if you'd be able to tell they're two different colors in two different room's inherent lighting....See MoreI’m trying to decide what wall color &rug goes w/ orange velvet couch
Comments (82)Any of the blues are nice with the orange. Your idea for just using a window treatment with the blue is also nice. I like the window shade Paul used, and also look on Etsy; there are some sellers there with really unique items. I think a plum/eggplant color in your space could also be amazing. I think someone further up in the thread showed a room with that color combo. On an unrelated note: Is anyone else having problems with the site? I can pull up discussions but cannot access the comments, and cannot post new comments. I can apparently comment on posts I’ve previously commented on, and read comments on these posts. However, I can do all of this only if I access it through my Houzz “Activity” menu, and only if I am on Desktop mode on my iPhone. (Which all I use of late is an iPhone and I don’t use the Houzz app.) I’ve never had this issue before, so not sure if it’s site related....See MoreRelated Professionals
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