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Color is so important.  It's in and on everything.  When it's in your home or business choosing the right color can be challenging and even nerve-racking.  This blog serves to help see color trends, understand them better and allow people to feel confident in their choices and in utilizing Professional Color Consutling help when they need it.

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Color is so important.  It's in and on everything.  When it's in your home or business choosing the right color can be challenging and even nerve-racking.  This blog serves to help see color trends, understand them better and allow people to feel confident in their choices and in utilizing Professional Color Consutling help when they need it.

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Choosing the Right Deck Stain Color

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Benefits of Deck Stain

Choosing the right deck stain color can greatly enhance the appearance of your wood deck while also extending its lifespan. One of the main benefits of deck stain is its ability to protect against weather elements. Stains create a barrier that shields the deck from damaging rain, snow, and sunlight. They also provide essential UV protection, preventing the wood from fading and becoming discolored over time.

Deck stains come in different types, including semi-transparent and solid stains. Semi-transparent stains allow the natural wood grain to show through, adding to the deck's natural beauty. These stains work well on decks made from high-quality, visually appealing woods. On the other hand, solid stains create a solid, opaque color, making them suitable for decks with visible imperfections or older wood.

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Choosing the Perfect Paint Colors: Tips and Inspiration

Choosing the right paint color for your home can offer many advantages. A well-chosen wall color has the power to influence mood, appearance, and perceived size of the room. The right color can set a tone for the entire space, creating a sense of calm, vibrancy, or elegance.

Additionally, a well-chosen paint color can improve the home's value, making it more appealing to potential buyers. Neutral paint colors are always a safe bet, creating a blank slate that allows potential buyers to envision their own furniture and style in the space.

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Is Premium Paint Worth the Added Cost?


When you’re painting your home, whether you should get premium paint for the job will come up. There are many factors to consider when painting your home, with the most important being the quality of materials you use. But is it worth spending the extra money on premium paint for your walls, or is it better to seek out deals on paint and pay far less?

Countless paint vendors will tell you low-quality paint is just as good as spending extra money on premium paint. But that isn't necessarily true, especially if you're looking for your paint job to last a long time. The quality of the paint you use will matter in the long run, so you want to use premium paint for your home walls.

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9 Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Residential Painter


Are you searching for the right residential painter?

A fresh coat of paint can change the look of a room or revitalize your home's exterior. You don't want to leave such an important job to amateurs. You need the best painters possible. But finding the perfect residential painter isn't always easy.

We are here to help. Read on for the 9 questions to ask a painter before hiring them.

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What Are the Best Exterior House Colors and Combinations For Resale Value?

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Are you considering selling your home and want the best deal possible? In 2019, it was found that the average to paint a home costs $3,000 but this initial cost can increase the sale amount of your home with a great curb appeal!

Not sure what paint colors will go best for your home? Get comfortable, relax, and read on to discover the best exterior house colors for resale value. 

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Sherwin Williams Color of the Year 2020 - Naval SW 6244

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We talked previously in the year about Behr's Color of the Year 2020 and now its Sherwin Williams!  Naval SW 6244 is a beautiful color, plain and simple.  It has such a wide range of depth and simplicity and is dark and mysterious while being beautiful and bold.  This is one of my favorite Colors of the Year, in fact, it has been the color of my own personal house for 3 years.  We have helped clients come to the decision to use Naval on many occasions because of how beautiful it is.  

Color Trends 

The idea of color and how it trends really is amazing.  I believe its a culmination of Social Media posts from Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and much more.  I like to think of it as a wildfire.  It starts somewhere and the wind blows and boom, full-blown trend.  We have been watching the trends for years and watching the ebb and flow starting with one color and then as that fades another takes its place and sometimes eventually colors come back and combos come back. Color does things for peoples emotional well-being and in this time of uncertainty, painting your walls can provide a change in scene and a change in emotional state.  

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2020 Color Trends: Black Cabinets, Gold Hardware & White Countertops

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TRENDING ALERT!

The Johnson project was awesome. The family is a great client and adventurous with their trending choices! We loved working with them.  

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2020 Interior Color Trends: Is White the New Gray?

2020 Interior Color Trends: Is White the New Gray?

As we have rolled into 2020 we have seen more and more customers moving to the lighter side of color!  Ultra Whites are the latest trending colors with our clients in Colorado.  

For so many years, the trend was to have an all-over color with wall accents to pop throughout the house or in a specific room, but now the trend is seeming to go the other way.  Wall accents are no longer in trend!  In fact grays are slowly going away and leaving room for fresh, clean white walls and white ceilings as well as trim and doors.  

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Color Trends for 2020 released by Behr

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After announcing the 2020 Color of the Year, Behr also released their 2020 Color Trends palette featuring softer colors that were inspired by the natural elements, Earth, Wind, Water, Fire & Sky. These colors are meant to invoke the feelings of travel and adventure through nature.

Bringing these colors into your home will inspire and bring invigorated life into any room. If you are ready to start exploring these, or any other color design options for the interior or exterior of your home for your next paint job, we can help.  Click to schedule a Free Color Consultation

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Behr just released their color of year for 2020: Back to Nature

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Behr has released their Color of the Year: Back to Nature.  They are hailing this color as "calm, gracious, and balanced".  

As we have been watching the trends happen both from Paint Manufacturers like Behr and Sherwin Williams and Benjamin Moore and watching trends from our customers, it seems that the latest color trends are leaning towards the lighter shades.  

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All About Paint Sheens


What is a Paint Sheen and Why Does it Matter?

Paint comes in a variety of sheens:

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Why Hire A Color Consultant

Why Hire a Color Consultant.

  1. Save money.  A color designer will help to pick the right color to avoid costly mistakes with color or paint products.
  2. Save More Money. A color designer will often get discounts on paint and painting supplies and can pass that savings on to the client.
  3. Creative choices.  A color professional can suggest colors, placement, sheens, and decorative finishes that are unexpected and out of the box.  Your home will have a custom feel.
  4. Product Knowledge.  A color designer will have expert knowledge of paint and products and be able to suggest the correct products for your specific job. 
  5. Color sells. Professionally color designed homes can sell faster and for more money.
  6. Big Impact. Color is the most effective way to completely change the feel of your home, it can rejuvenate old spaces and enhance forgotten beauty in your home.  
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Color Trends

How are trends determined?  

Who said in the nineties that peach and light teal were going to be the hot trend?  How come you can see specific colors and it evokes a memory of a certain time in history.  Colors come in groups, they are sold to us in a package, if you walk through a department store you can see certain colors that are prominent in fashion, home decor, paint, and any imaginable item one could spend money on.  For example a few years back sand-colored tans, rich chocolate browns, and robin’s egg blues became very popular in everything from dishes, skirts, baby bedding and office supplies.  I was enamored by this color scheme and had pillows, rugs, and paints with this scheme and wore these color religiously.  This is when I first realized the degree of influence the color marketing groups have on our day to day purchases.  When this small and influential group of people determined these were the colors of the future they then informed the dye makers, paint industry, and anyone who wanted to be on what seems like the cutting edge of color.  When I saw this trend so strong in all aspects of our lives it made me think about color combos of the past and more importantly color stories that were going to be given to us for the future.  I researched trends and looked for what fashion gurus and influential designers were talking about and what I heard over and over again was all about smokey grays and sunny yellows.  I immediately fell in love, like a sucker I was hooked, and decided this was how I wanted to redo my own master bedroom.  I shopped online and looked everywhere I could think to find these colors in linens and decorative items but it was not to be found anywhere.  My only option was to settle for colors that were not quite right or make custom pieces.  If only I had waited for 6 more months I could have bought exactly what was in my minds eye and even found it at discount stores like Target.

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