Category Archives: Paint Color Ideas
Decorating Ideas for the Winter Holidays: Paint Renovations
Looking for decorating ideas to spruce up your home for the winter holiday season? Paint renovations are the ultimate quick fix. Painting is cost effective and can happen with a minimal amount of lead time. Compare it to the purchase … Continue reading
Paint Color Ideas: Deep Purple with Mint Green?
Paint color ideas aren’t easy to come up with. Every color is influenced by its surrounding colors. But who would want a monochrome world? As a self-admitted color junkie, I sure wouldn’t want a world without glorious and vibrant colors! … Continue reading
Artisanal Design and “Healing Appeal”
If you’re a health practitioner of any kind, you probably know how your environment helps your clients heal. The visual “healing appeal” of your office, clinic, massage room or treatment space effects how people feel. Perfect use of color and … Continue reading
Color Forecast: Cool Blue
Color Talk with Stephanie Mesner Sherwin-Williams describes the color blue as elemental, cosmic, oceanic, mysterious and celestial. Blue appeals to our eco-consciousness because it’s the predominant color of our planet. Look how stunning our faithful blue marble looks from space! … Continue reading
Color Forecast: Exuberant Red
Color Talk with Stephanie Mesner Sometimes “seeing red” doesn’t mean you’re angry. Sometimes seeing red means you’re in a gorgeously designed space! Especially in accents and furniture, reds rule. In our own home, we have red wicker, red Persian carpets, … Continue reading
Mixing Colors Using Pigments: A Lost Art
Shop Talk with Amiel Mesner One of our secrets to design success is the ability to mix colors using pigments. Years ago, all painters mixed their own custom colors. Now, paint stores have machines to automate the process. Mixing pigments … Continue reading
Gray Tints: A World of Possibilities
Color Talk with Stephanie Mesner Although the color gray is as neutral as can be, gray is also one of the hottest and most up-to-the-minute colors. If you look at the latest styles walking the runway, you get a sense … Continue reading
Just Say No to White Ceilings
Why was it decided decades ago that all ceilings are to be painted white? The common thinking was that white ceilings visually raise the height of the ceiling and expand the feeling of space in a room. The message ended … Continue reading
Summer Projects and Paint Color Inspiration
I am typing on my laptop while sitting next to an open window. There is green everywhere. I am shoeless and in shorts, and loving every second of it. Just a mere 3 months ago, I was starving for the … Continue reading
