I got your color system card. CHANGED my decor life! 😁 Took it to my daughter to help her choose carpet and flooring, she was SHOCKED at the undertones that she didn’t see and threw out many of the choices she thought she liked!! THANK YOU 🙏 💛💛💛
I’ve learned so much from you. Today I laid out your color wheel and samples in my bedroom where the hickory hardwood floor is going down and the flooring installer asked me what I was doing. I said I’m looking for the undertones. And I need to get the flooring down before I pick the paint color for a western facing window. I was showing him how I want to change the yellow undertone paint of the walland I was moving around your color wheel and he got a real kick out of it. By end of day tomorrow I should have it all sorted out and I am so grateful to you.
I agree undertones are often the problem. But In my case light really did make a huge difference. The same whites are MUCH more yellow at my home in Idaho compared to my home in Hawaii. I have been told that northern light has more yellow. And I hope you still advocate for testing colors of materials in the actual space, because every quartz sample I thought was going to be great in the showroom looked bad when I brought it home to my house. Showrooms, weirdly, often have especially bad lighting.
We flip houses on the side and do most of the work ourselves. I’m the painter 😊I have the hardest time picking a white to go with white big box kitchen cabinets. I feel that the entire kitchen being white is too sterile but when I venture into warmer whites I feel like it totally clashes. I’m looking for that perfect countertop cabinet wall combo that’s neutral. Going on house #4 and still not satisfied.
I'm about to shift to retirement pied-a-terre. My beautiful (and some valuable Annie Albers original prints) look great on "Humble Gold" walls in living room. New place has light/sagey green walls in liv. room. Can't picture artwork there. Could place work in darker grey leaning rooms, but want to display it. Can you help with this question? Repaint and lose the decorating i've done (orange accents, cream sofa) or get used to my gorgeous Annie Albers work on pale green...
A designer at the paint store helped me pick my color and it turned out to be a color fail. I want to re-paint because it’s so dark in here. Turns out the undertone was green (and yellow) and in my north/south facing exposure looks garish and dirty ( I chose a neutral off-white) I will be getting your color-wheel and trying again…one room at a time. Not much left in the coffers after paying the painters.
Hi Maria, can you please talk about the paint “neutral ground” from SW. You mentioned in one of your videos you have it in your house. It would be nice to know more about this camaleón color that many interior designers use. Thank you! 😊
What about a wall of windows with a view of trees? In the spring and summer, the green foliage reflects on all the walls inside. Is there any way to compensate for that?
I seemed to have found you a bit too late. Tomorrow we have someone removing 25 year old wallpaper from our dining room and painting the whole room, which is a weird rectangular shape. The house was built in 1978, so all of the floors are dark solid oak and the trim for the windows is also dark oak. I've been told that the current trend is grey. Well, hello, grey is not going to work with a warm color. We don't use this room as a dining room anymore but when we sell in about 5 years we will stage it as such. I'm thinking of painting white ceiling with a warm cream wall and baseboards.
I got your color system card. CHANGED my decor life! 😁 Took it to my daughter to help her choose carpet and flooring, she was SHOCKED at the undertones that she didn’t see and threw out many of the choices she thought she liked!! THANK YOU 🙏 💛💛💛
Hooray thanks for the comment! xo
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I’ve learned so much from you. Today I laid out your color wheel and samples in my bedroom where the hickory hardwood floor is going down and the flooring installer asked me what I was doing. I said I’m looking for the undertones. And I need to get the flooring down before I pick the paint color for a western facing window. I was showing him how I want to change the yellow undertone paint of the walland I was moving around your color wheel and he got a real kick out of it. By end of day tomorrow I should have it all sorted out and I am so grateful to you.
I agree undertones are often the problem. But In my case light really did make a huge difference. The same whites are MUCH more yellow at my home in Idaho compared to my home in Hawaii. I have been told that northern light has more yellow. And I hope you still advocate for testing colors of materials in the actual space, because every quartz sample I thought was going to be great in the showroom looked bad when I brought it home to my house. Showrooms, weirdly, often have especially bad lighting.
I have skylights in my home and I can never find advice on natural lighting shining in from above. Been a nightmare for me for 20 yrs
You are just amazing - I am colour illiterate and even I get it! So practical and not the usual 'chuck it all out and start again' thank you
Brilliant - I’ve done a lot of finger crossing and accumulated MANY sample paint pots
Very excited to see a new video series from you! I am addicted to Colour Rescue!
Just found you today. I am so impressed by how helpful and practical your advice is! Subscribed.
We flip houses on the side and do most of the work ourselves. I’m the painter 😊I have the hardest time picking a white to go with white big box kitchen cabinets. I feel that the entire kitchen being white is too sterile but when I venture into warmer whites I feel like it totally clashes. I’m looking for that perfect countertop cabinet wall combo that’s neutral. Going on house #4 and still not satisfied.
Brilliant turorial!
Thank you! You’re very helpful!
I'm about to shift to retirement pied-a-terre. My beautiful (and some valuable Annie Albers original prints) look great on "Humble Gold" walls in living room. New place has light/sagey green walls in liv. room. Can't picture artwork there. Could place work in darker grey leaning rooms, but want to display it. Can you help with this question? Repaint and lose the decorating i've done (orange accents, cream sofa) or get used to my gorgeous Annie Albers work on pale green...
A designer at the paint store helped me pick my color and it turned out to be a color fail. I want to re-paint because it’s so dark in here. Turns out the undertone was green (and yellow) and in my north/south facing exposure looks garish and dirty ( I chose a neutral off-white) I will be getting your color-wheel and trying again…one room at a time. Not much left in the coffers after paying the painters.
Hi Maria, can you please talk about the paint “neutral ground” from SW. You mentioned in one of your videos you have it in your house.
It would be nice to know more about this camaleón color that many interior designers use. Thank you! 😊
Green beige is a colour that works with a lot of finishes! And when you think about it, green being the colour of nature works with everything!
I really need help. How do we get your color wheel?
Thanks.
How do you take the color wheel color and find a greige or complex cream to go with it? My sofa is yellow beige.
What about a wall of windows with a view of trees? In the spring and summer, the green foliage reflects on all the walls inside. Is there any way to compensate for that?
Now I have painted many room black. Without repainting how do I lighten them
We're building and due to finish May/June. We've picked finishes but now I'm SCARED we made some bad choices!!😢
I seemed to have found you a bit too late. Tomorrow we have someone removing 25 year old wallpaper from our dining room and painting the whole room, which is a weird rectangular shape. The house was built in 1978, so all of the floors are dark solid oak and the trim for the windows is also dark oak. I've been told that the current trend is grey. Well, hello, grey is not going to work with a warm color. We don't use this room as a dining room anymore but when we sell in about 5 years we will stage it as such. I'm thinking of painting white ceiling with a warm cream wall and baseboards.
I don't know if it is me but the sound on these sit down videos is weird, kinda echo-ey and has reverb
Hmmm, yes it's because sometimes my editor will speed up my talking! Thanks for the feedback!
I have heard you should wait to pick a paint color as the last stage of decorating.