Want help choosing a warm color for your kitchen or the perfect shade of serene for your bath? Amy Wax of "Your Color Source Studios" will be discussing and signing her latest book, " Can't Fail Color Schemes- Kitchens & Baths"at Watchung Booksellers, tomorrow (Thursday) evening, from 7-8 p.m. In her second book focusing on color with Creative Homeowner Publishing, Wax addresses how to make those all-important color decisions for kitchens and bathrooms.
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Montclair Color Guru To Talk Hues Tomorrow Night
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
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Comments (31)
Definitely worth coming out for if you are planning to paint sometime soon. Ms. Wax did the colors in both my home and my studio.
No thanks. I know what colors I like and what works for me.
dane,
I was always curious what it costs to have someone pick out colors for you. Can you share the cost...a ballpark estimate is fine.
I'd estimate somewhere between vastly overpriced and stupendously overpriced.
Can't you just go through shelter magazines, or buy the book, and copy something you like if you don't have the confidence or skills to figure it out? Then of course, there's always Navajo White.
Kind of what I was getting at you two.
The "color consistency consultant" who you have to hire to watch the paint dry is where they really get you.
I ask my friend who's in the fashion biz. She has an excellent way with color. The cost? A cup of tea and some cookies! :-)
Now that's a great deal MM!
I just look at the old pile of arch digests that I have been collecting over the years. If there is a room I like, I bring the picture to home depot and match up the colors. Wife can get me ADs for free.
13% - Dwell is also a good source as well as Pottery Barn. Their catalogue photos now list the Benjamin Moore colors that go into each room display. Doesn't get easier than that.
I've met many top designers in my work, and been personally involved in several of the projects that were featured in AD since the 80's. These people are successful for good reason, and not just connections to rich people.
Color is very important to the right feel of the overall space and I've seen many proud amateurs screw it up totally (especially some local part time "decorators"). It's not as easy as it looks.
The pro's use many resources in their work, seems a cheap way to learn something if you decorate yourself.
You can sign my name to Pokey's post as well. This is a local person who published a book and is having a signing. You're interested go. You're not don't. I have a hard time understanding the need to make facetious comments in a lame attempt to put down someone you don't even know, who is an expert at a specialty you obviously know nothing about.
I just don't get it.
oh lighten up. And by that I mean a light-seafoam-ish blue green with a hint of yellow.
More power to Ms. Wax. Smoke 'em if you got 'em I say!
But someday, probably next thrusday, we'll all look back at the notion of paying for color consultants and laugh at ourselves over a can of beans while siting around our hobo campfire.
That sounded very Douglas Adams RoC, do you carry a towel with you at all times?
I believe color consultants we're on the first spaceship "ark" sent out, remember?
The ship with PR consultants, personal assistants and business managers...
Explains much RoC.
I keep my mice happy at all times, just in case.
Leave it to ROC to be so cruel as to make a campfire out of hobos! What next, stray animals?
I repainted my house last summer and picked out the colors with the help of my painter, who has a good eye for these things. I guess she was my color consultant. It looks great and I couldn't be more pleased.
oh, that too. How silly will that look when the set-for-life dogs look out on we poor wretches in the street while we sing: "how much has that doggie in the window"
Here's a house color for y'all!
I suspect that ROC will not select, for his lean-to down by the river, Benjamin Moore's "Clinton Brown" (HC-67).
Nor will he opt for "Powell Buff" (HC-35).
More likely the traditional "Ivory White", #925.
A word of warning, however. dannyboo has found that the "Ivory White" is not "in tune" with the rest of his color scheme.
(ring)
-Hello, Ms. Wax?
-yes.
-I'm looking for something which says "screw you" to those socialist, do-gooding, historical landmarkers.
-how about something vibrant? something eclectic, individualist but a tad subversive?
-uh, ok. But will it say "screw you" ?
-I'm thinking you're rugged, a "take no prisoner's" kind of guy. Am I right?
-um, yea, I guess.
-How about "Arizona Sunburn?"
-huh?
-or I'm seeing "Slapped Face Umber". Oh, oh here it is - the perfect one! "Pursed Puss Purple" that ought to do it. Here's the color code FX996645.
-ok...thanks.
-You're welcome, can I interest you in a palm reading?
-uh, no thanks.
-I'll send you the bill, thank you.
(click)
I once worked with a color blind painter, the man was an expert technician, could paint with a brush and make it look sprayed. You just had to give him a diagram of the job on more complicated projects to make sure he got it right; the obvious meant nothing to him.
A short primer on how to paint.
That is genius comic timing!
Unfortunately, ROC didn't have a chance to find out that many HPC's including the Montclair Historic Preservation Commission, have no jurisdiction over color at all.
Paint color easements are found more often in those gated country club type communities in the sprawl belt.
All I'll say is....some of the colors of these houses around here with that company's name out front.....?
yeesh
I'd hide...not write a book.
I'd rather walk or drive around a town with interesting house colors, even if I don't like them all, than to do the same in the typical American suburb, featuring endless rows of vinyl plastic siding in three different shades of beige.
Based on her success, whatever, I'd guess you are the minority.