Color Makeovers
Color selection can be challenging even for some designers.
Hue (red, yellow, green) and value (light, dark) are always considered but color’s third property—chroma—will make or break color selection. (For example, if that swatch you liked at the paint store screams at you once it is on a wall at home, that’s a chroma issue.)
Also a fine artist, Mary Anne has an in-depth understanding of how to use color’s properties to accomplish your design goals and to take the fear out of choosing colors.
Interior Color Consultation
Originally from Bowling Green, Kentucky, this homeowner loved the cozy interiors of the Arts and Crafts movement. He also had a garage full of previously unused family heirlooms and collected art with which we remade his interior.
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New Color Palette
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Exterior Color Consultation
On a late 19th-century residence in San Francisco’s Liberty Heights, repainted an unsuitable yellow-and white exterior with colors relating to both its vintage and its Spanish tile roof. Emphasized ornate window molding and garage door recesses with contrasting olive tones, and painted the façade’s previously invisible coat of arms in multiple colors to give it the prominence it deserved.
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After we had the house painted in Mary Anne’s color scheme, people stopped on the street to photograph it. She is an artist in every sense of the word.
--William M. Harris, homeowner
Decor Color+Design Consultation
For her new infinity pool, this client chose aluminum outdoor furniture from the RH Matira Collection. Because she wanted pillows to pick up the color of the pool water but that also popped, I used a Perennials fabric in aqua and paired it with its opposite color, reddish orange, to design four styles of custom pillows for use in various zones around the pool deck.
