Need Advice from Homestager or Someone Good with Wall Paint Colors!

Email Teresa Krimm with Citi Home Staging - she is fabulous!
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Tell her E. sent you! She will take great care of you!
E. Herman
Cornerstone Chem-Dry

A.,
my name is T. and i work as asst to a wonderful interior designer and she is contracted to do home staging for a local builder too.
i would be glad to meet with you and try and help you out.
my email is ____@____.com
hers is ____@____.com and her name is michelle rider.
my number is ###-###-#### if you prefer to call and talk with me.
we are available on wednesday to come out and meet with you and discuss some options.
i would love to hear from you!

T.

I have a wonderful person for you!! Her name is Caroline Wormington with Designs by Caroline and I love her! She rescued me from a very bad decorator relationship when I moved into my last house.
She is amazing with colors, drapes are her specialty and... she handles entire remodel projects too. The thing I like most about her is that she knows how to work on a budget... and I mean a really tight budget.
Give her a call: Caroline @ ###-###-#### www.carolinewdesign.com

Hope this helps!
Oti

A....please call Roz Erliewin with Staging by Roz...you can get her number off her website at www.stagingwithroz.com

I needed to sell my home last year, with 22 other houses for sale in my neighborhood....started looking into it around Christmas time and became completely over whelmed...she came in to my home and did everything I needed to get it ready to be on the market by Jan. 15...I had an offer on Feb. 28...sold and moved out on March 30...couldn't of done it without her! With her help and 29 houses on the market by then....mine was the first to sell!
She is AMAZING with interior design....you cannot go wrong with putting your trust in her!!!!
You will be more than pleased!
Please check out her website and take a look. You can give her my name...she has my before and after photos as well as tons of other clients.
Hope this helps you!!!
Enjoy your day!
J.

Hi A., we found an awesome home stager named Roz Erlewein who did a great job helping us pick colors. Before we found Roz we were those people who made mutiple trips to Home Depot and our house looked like a crime scene with different paint colors splattered all over the walls. She looked at our space and handed me the right color. We love it! Her number is ###-###-####. I believe her website is www.stagingbyroz.com. Good luck. K. P

I highly recommend Andrea Krolick, ASID of Custom Interiors Inc. She has helped me with so much in my home. She is very personable and will listen to what you want. Her voice mail is ###-###-#### and her email address is ____@____.com

Good luck!

We have a wonderful woman who helped us pick our colors for our home. Her name is Emily Smith. She also does home interior painting. Her number is ###-###-####.

I highly recommend Beverly:

Beverly Biehl, ###-###-####

The Intuitive Interior (www.TheIntuitiveInterior.com)

Fiber-Seal (www.FiberSeal.com)

I'm so pleased that I got a personal recommendation! I love helping people find the perfect colors for their homes or even their clothing. I have the color decks for Sherwin-Williams, Benjamin Moore, and Kwal-Howells. Between these three, you can pretty much get whatever look you want. I'd love to help you with this adventure, because that's what it is. You are trying on a new personality for your home and your family when you are selecting a new wall color! I work with many painters as their color expert, so keep me in mind. You have a lot of other great options to work with from this list, too. Good luck, and I hope to hear from you!

B. Biehl, ###-###-####
The Intuitive Interior (www.TheIntuitiveInterior.com)

I can help with this. Respond back if you are interested.

I am a muralist and a faux painter and took four years of color theory with my fine arts degree in college. I feel I'm pretty good at colors! :)

Missy

Wow! Thank you to a couple of my past clients that are on Mamasource for your kind words...I truly appreciate it!

A.,
Picking colors for your home can seem daunting but it doesn't have to be! I would be more than happy to help if you're interested. I typically talk to my clients about how color can make them feel & that how choosing the RIGHT color can enhance their space. I encourage my clients to make their space their own and also help them to choose colors that have wide appeal & aren't too trendy in case they should find themselves in a situation where they have to sell within a few years. (Accessories can help in the trendy department!) I'm sure whatever you decide to do and whether you choose to enlist the help of a professional, you'll be pleasantly surprised at how such a small investment like painting, can change how you feel about your home.

Here's a link to a video of a vacant home I recently staged that I picked paint colors to help warm up the space & enhance the staging. www.realestateshows.com/313680

Good luck!
R. Erlewein
Staging With Style by R.
www.stagingbyroz.com

Hi A.,
Picking colors is a big step in the overall look of your home. I can help you with that. Please look at my advertisment here in mamasource, under In Balace Decor, call me or email me and we can set up time for a consultation. I offer a 30 minute free consultation to new customers and 10% off your first job of $500 or more. I would be more than happy to sit with you and help you get your home looking beautiful.

G. Berry
In Balance Decor
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A.- I will give my vote for Roz Erlewein, as well. She helped me choose colors for my living and DR that were just gorgeous. We were selling our house, and ended up using the same colors in our new house as well. She is truly great!

Hello,

My sister had the so called boring beige in her new home, over the years she got tired of it and was trying something different. You might be interested in it. It doesnt help you in choosing your colors but it might can help you in what you decide. You have four walls in a room, she took nad painted them all one color i will call that your base color that you want then she took the colors that were going to be in that room(color theme) and she sponged it on after the base color dried it was very pretty. then in another room she did the same but she only went up on half the wall this was in the dinning room and she put a chair railing where the two colors stoped it was very elegant. she wanted something different, this might be tosome interest to you. Her main colors were sage and boring beige but you couldnt really tell cause of the way it was done. Home depote have classes sometimes that give you different directions to go new styles of doing things. Hope this helps.

T.

The best way to choose is to buy several different quarts of paint in the colors you are drawn to. A quart is enough to paint a large enough swatch to get a feel for the whole room. If after you have the colors on the wall, like one but feel it is too bright, go back to the store and ask to see their color book. You will be able to find a color in the same tone range. Relax! Have fun! and if you don't like it when you are done...start over.

My sister is a designer and is good with this sort of thing. She can help you. Heather Rambo, ###-###-####.

N.

I'm not going to be of much help but just wanted to let you know I went through this same delimma for MONTHS!! I grabbed every single shade of brown chip sample Home Depot AND Lowes had. They'd either look great at home in one light but not another or look good in the store and totally different here. I finally got so frsutrated I bought the same color the walls already are and just repainted them the same just with washable paint.
Our house is 4 years old but they used non-washable paint and with kids and dogs that just doesn't work. I was so excited to paint a new color but just couldn't find "that one"..lol

Ok, I paint ALL the time. In fact my husband just expects it now. I start in one room go around the house and when I am done I usually am bored of the first color and start again. Go to the paint store, pick out swatches of all the colors you like. Go home and tape the swatches to the wall in the room you are painting. Leave them there a few days and see what color you like best. Make sure you look at the swatches all times of day. The color will change with natural light and at night when you have the lights on. If you still can't decide by the smallest size paint can (usually about half a pint) paint part of the wall and see how you like the color. Start with the swatches first. Good luck!

Please contact J Brill. She's a color consultant and can definitely help you! Her email address is ____@____.com luck!

Hey A.!
I'm interested in what you finally choose to do, so be sure to update us! Colors, advisers, etc.!

A.

Hi A.,
Just bring home ALL the color swatches that you like in different shades of the same color too. Then place one by one on the wall you are going to put it on. Make sure you look at it during the sunniest time of the day and at night time with just the ceiling lights or lamps and see how it actually changes colors. This will help you eliminate those unsure colors. Hope this helps. I have helped many friends choose their colors and they loved it everytime.

I like "boring beige" (MY CHOICE NOT BUILDER'S CHOICE) with white trim. Our 13 yr old chose her paint color and we painted her room what she wanted which was a lavender'ish (horrid) color, but she loves it.

I have huge windows with a huge wooded lot so as a friend told me once..."your artwork is looking out your windows". I love having blinds open all the time (don't need themn out back) and looking at the view from all of the windows.

The boring beige works for me and is a good resale issue if you are into a starter home, which we are not. This is our 5th home, 2nd one to build and 2 condos....we accent with the hand scraped wood floors, tile flooring and great quality furniture.

Funny story..... as we were re-painting daughter's room...my mom was moving to a new home. I spent $300 to paint daughter's room (our project) her favorite color....My Mom spent $600 to repaint a room in the new house which happened to be the same color we just painted daughter's room, LOL

Look at homes that are for sale and check out open houses as well. So many times, the colors of the room do not "flow" well and you end up with a mixed bag of colors, etc. that are so busy you can't get a feel for the home.

Do what makes YOU happy.... Good luck in your new home.

I have two friends who do this. One has done it for years and is very good.

Have you gone through new show homes to get ideals. This might help.

For $10 you can buy a color wheel at Sherwin Willams that has every paint chip. I would suggest starting with that and looking at the chips in your home with your lighting. Narrow down to 3 or so colors and then get samples from Sherwin Williams and paint a white poster board with 3 or so coats of each. Tape the poster boards to your walls and see what works. I like this better than painting a sample right on the wall because you can move the poster board around to see how it will work in different parts of the room. Sometimes a color works ok in a dark area but takes on a strange tone where there is lots of light or viceversa.

This worked for me and is a lot cheaper than even one hour of a decorator's time.

gotta say i'm tempted to 'take you up on your request!" but alas, w/ 2 little ones in tow it might be easier to just share what i've found to be my favorite resource for choosing wall colors: restoration hardware. sherwin williams is great for the color folders from different 'eras' or themes too, but restoration hrdwr has the never-fail-goes-with-just-about-everything-every-mood-and-every-decor, *silver sage*. there are also lovely blues, yellows, whites...neutral colors, but not boring builders' beige. there might be other locations around, but the one i love is near chuy's (yum), mckinney, cole -- the knox/henderson exit off 75.
HTH!

We have been transferred many times and I'm pretty good with colors. What I do is go to Sherwin Williams and take a sample of each color card and bring them home. I take the color samples to the room I'm decorating and lay my choices out. By having it in the room with the furniture or bedding your matching, it helps a lot. When you match paint in the store, the lighting is much different from what you have in your house. So turn the lights on and off, and eventually you'll find the color that's right for you. Good Luck!

There are just so many factors.
Heres what you do:
Look at as many pictures in magazines etc as you can.
Tear out everything you like. A pattern will emerge. Look for pictures with furniture, acessories,rugs etc. like yours or something similar to what you have.
Pick your colors and buy sample sizes(sherwin williams has them i know)
Paint the samples on the walls. You need to look at them in many different lights(times of day). Then you should be able to decide. Its still hard.
You can also look in your closet and find the favorite colors you like to wear, the colors you look and feel best in-you can use this as inspiration.
You can hire an interior designer to come and do a color consultation. This is really great and takes the guess work out of everything. It will cost you about $100 an hour.
good luck

go with a oatmeal color and maybe a little darker oatmeal color for the bathrooms. stay nuetral when you have your doubts.

A.,
It can get overwhelming seeing all those color options at the paint stores! Remember that the lights they have in the store are flourescent and are going to make the colors look different than they do in your home.

I don't know if there's a Sherwin-Williams near you, but they have quart-size samples that are only $5!! Get some poster boards from an arts and crafts store and paint them with the paints samples and lean/tape them against the walls in your house for a couple of days and see if you like it.

Best of luck to you!!

I went to home depot and got the behr (?) color styles. Its a little trifold booklet. Their was one for each color of the rainbow and it had different looks aand coordinating colors. We choose a blue for our kitchen that has a coordinating darker blue we used in the tv room. and it helped us find countertops (their was a great coordinating tan) and trim color (great cream color). We did the same but purple in our dining room, etc... Aalso, check out the Home and Garden Channel their is a tv show where a designer helps people find color she takes what they like and uses it in a color palate to pick stuff in their room.