True Colour Expert

  My True Colour Expert Workshop in Toronto was the best ever! As I said in this post, the system I’ve created for distinguishing undertones in neutrals evolves the more I teach it. Pinterest Since I have a bigger following in the east than the west it seems, I will be back in Toronto, October…

Andrea Brooks attended one of my True Colour Expert Workshops last year and her beautiful home is being featured in At Home in Arkansas this month! Congrats Andrea, your home is stunning!

The system that I’ve created for distinguishing undertones is still evolving and each workshop I get better at teaching it to the designers, decorators and design enthusiasts who attend. For example, I have been trying to figure out an efficient way to work with fabrics, tiles and countertop samples to make it really experiential for participants. They already work with real paint chips on the first day and compare, compare, compare. Comparing colour is what I do with my clients throughout the entire consultation so that they understand why I’m recommending certain colours and it’s the first thing I teach to everyone.

What would it be like for you to have more confidence when specifying colour for walls, fabrics or finishes?   You can learn something new in a course, but do you always walk away with the ability to apply what you’ve learned the next day? “I learned a lot in this course and I’m way…

Photo by Maria Killam I am in Toronto preparing for True Colour Expert Training at Designers Walk starting tomorrow!  After my assistant and I got everything organized, we went out to find a patio and I found this sign (above), that I had to share with you sitting outside a variety store downtown on Dupont….

For You!  (source) My good friend Irene Fraser (below) from Design Happens asked me to give a talk on ‘Creating Flow with Colour’ next Saturday April 30 at the Ridge Meadows Home Show in Maple Ridge. I’ll be on the design stage at Noon and it’ll go for approximately 20 minutes and then I’ll be…

source Think back to an experience in your life, when you were young and sitting in the backseat. Who was driving?  What were you doing? You could coast, hang out and harass the person driving, but they still determined where you were going.  There’s parts of our life where we’re in the back seat but…

Photo by Patsy Overton, True Colour Expert Last weekend, 17 participants convened at Gregory’s Paint & Flooring in John’s Creek, Atlanta.  It was perfect being in a space right above a Benjamin Moore Dealer (way easier to do the homework each day) as well as having flooring samples conveniently in the same place to show…

source I arrived in Atlanta on Tuesday night to a heavy rainstorm.  It was just like this. . .  source Then 2 of my participants who were schedule to fly Wednesday couldn’t make it because of the snowstorms happening elsewhere (this one in Chicago): source Everyone else arrived and we are having a wonderful time…