Archive for April, 2010
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Did you know that flat, white above your head isn’t your only option?
Flop angle is a term for when color changes appearance based on the angle it is viewed. Color on the horizontal plane that is a ceiling will always appear more gray, cooler, and darker.
Painting upholstery with regular gallons of waterborne paints has been done expertly by several of my fellow decorating forum members. MAGNAVERDE (who in real life is an interior designer and has a real name) is the pioneer of painting upholstery.
Instructions for this raspberry painted sofa is just one of many talents that has made MAGNAVERDE online legend. Copy of instructions at end of this post.
What paint brands do professional color consultants use and recommend — and why? Diane S. emailed chat@colorpodz.com and asked about paint brands. Here’s the scoop:
In this ColorPod post we identify about twenty different brands. You can listen in as we discuss the ups and downs of specifying mainstream brands as well as what it’s like to work with higher price-point luxury brands.
Color humor – this video is hilarious.
Ever wonder who comes up with paint color names? Some of them are completely absurd and provide no clues whatsoever as to what the color actually looks like. Farrow & Ball gets a critique.
Differentiating violet from purple proves to be a bit of a challenge even for us! Kelly, Rachel, and I get together to discuss this intriguing range of colors in an effort to better understand where — or if — they reside on the visible spectrum. Purple is known as the perfect balance between red and blue. That nurtures many common color associations both positive and negative and extremely diverse from rock-and-roll royalty like Prince and Stevie Nicks to blue-haired older women and nursing homes.
I love cruising blogosphere for well-executed table vignettes. So when I spied a new post about “proper scale and height” over at the Garden Web Decorating Forum, I couldn’t click fast enough to open the thread. This is a picture of the situation.
The essence of Phi is mathematical. Yet it’s not the formulas that capture our visceral attention and long gazes of appreciation. There is something romantic and captivating about how Divine Proportion infiltrates our surroundings both natural and built.
Just because you have a dimly lit room, you are not sentenced to exclusively living with white or off white paint colors. We discuss how you can celebrate the light you have to work with and turn it into a positive aspect of the room — you don’t have to play it safe!
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"Color is a philosophy."
— Frank Mahnke
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