Our blog offers a fresh voice on the design scene, with ideas, inspiration and paint color advice focused on color for the built world. Updated regularly, discover current paint color trends and tried and true proven approaches to color design for your home, your business or your brand. It's all about the human response to color. Learn how to choose and apply color in a way that supports well-being and adds beauty and function to any environment. Whether interior or exterior, residential or commercial, smart color design makes the difference between a space that's hardly noticeable and one that makes you feel alive!
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Architectural Color Consultants are also known as Paint Color Consultants, Exterior House Color Consultants and Interior Paint Color Consultants as well as numerous other terms. The best ones have been trained by a reputable school which teaches the principles of color theory and best practices for specifying color for interiors and exteriors.
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Horizontal Wood paneling
Stained or varnished and sealed wood trim has been a go-to decorating idea for more rustic homes and spaces for generations. Recently the use of horizontal wood and vertical paneling has been gaining traction speedily.
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Photo: Amy Krane
Living in the country it's impossible to ignore the variety of colorful barn exteriors around. But I'm often zipping by at speeds way too fast to stop and take a photo. Who doesn't love the iconic red barn with its endless variations of that red hue.
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Icy Blue has become a new thing. Apparently it's a millennial and Gen-Z color-love. With the emphasis in the past few years on warm colors like burgundy, maroon, oxblood, terra-cotta and brown it's hard to imagine where this came from.
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Whether a 1200 square foot cabin at the foot of a stream or a 5000 square foot mountaintop chalet, the elements needed are the same. Create warmth and coziness with color and natural materials to make your mountain lodge hideaway.
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Custom wall color by Amy Krane Color
While paint color lays the foundation for the overall look of your home, what fills the rooms becomes the back bone of your home's look and feel. Home decor inspo can be found everywhere from films and tv to museums, homes of friends and family and of course online in places like Pinterest and Instagram.
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Benjamin Moore Phillipsburg blue HC-159
Blue is so associated with coastal settings that with few exceptions almost any blue can be a coastal blue. With its tie to the sea and the sky, blue instantly places the observer adjacent to the ocean.
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