I can admit, before I went to the wonderful Maria Killam's True Colour Expert workshop, I didn't know much about color. I liked color, I used color (not always right), and I noticed color... but I didn't have confidence in why it worked to use one versus another.
At the workshop, one (major) concept we learned about was the difference in clean and dirty colors. I remember reading Maria's blog posts at Colour Me Happy over and over, trying to understand it.
I didn't.
To solve that problem, I took a little jaunt over to Vancouver and attended the workshop.
While I sat in class and filled my brain full of information, I kept thinking about how wrong a few colors in my home were... and how my husband would wish that I never attended after I told him we needed to repaint almost, well, everything.
One of the colors that I knew was wrong was an accent wall in my living room. (If you read my earlier post about accent walls, don't be fooled, I am not completely against them!)
The living room is very nuetral with pops of bright blue, green, and turquoise.
To tie in the bright blue accents, I painted an accent wall a wonderful blue from a piece of art in the room. Bad idea. It wasn't wonderful on the wall.
So I repainted it with a different shade. Better, but still not great.
The living room is very nuetral with pops of bright blue, green, and turquoise.
To tie in the bright blue accents, I painted an accent wall a wonderful blue from a piece of art in the room. Bad idea. It wasn't wonderful on the wall.
So I repainted it with a different shade. Better, but still not great.
There was just something about it I didn't like. Too bright? Too blue? I didn't know and wasn't willing to keep repainting it.
BEFORE:
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| Before. It really wasn't this bright in real life. Camera flashes + horrible photographers = SUCKY photos. |
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| Before. No flash. |
During the True Colour Expert Workshop, I sat in that classroom and realized why I didn't the color I had blindly chosen. It was way too CLEAN for the room. It screamed 'kids room' and made everything else look dirty. All I did was find a DIRTY blue that was already used in the room and repainted.
AFTER:
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| After. The dirtied version of blue. |
Better, don't you think?
Before
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After
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The best part? My husband didn't even notice.
And if I didn't tell him I repainted, he still wouldn't notice.
Now... all I have to do is replace my coffee table, paint the other walls, install baseboards, replace all the lighting, find a new lam.. (K, I'll stop now)
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If you need assistance with your own clean and dirty (home interior) issues, email me at coleyhueske@hotmail.com
24 comments:
Wow - MAJOR difference - it looks amazing! Great Job! If it makes you feel any better - my husband wouldn't notice either! (i bet he would notice if I moved the snack cupboard though!) :-) xoxo from Trinidad
Much better Coley! I had no idea there were clean and dirty colors! I'll have to pay more attention when picking out paint colors :)
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Wow! This whole concept of clean and dirty color is a new one for me. I need to learn more! Love the new color....and you are so right about husbands not noticing stuff LOL
lol! I love how you wrote this post,Coley! My husband won't notice it either.... Love the transformation... what a difference shades of color can make! Even the shelf looks as if it went through a beautiful transformation with the dirty blue as a backdrop... lovely post! Thanks for sharing and for your sweet comment on my garden.Have a great weekend!~Poppy
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Oh wow! I have never thought about that! But I do love your new color! Not as bright and I think looks better now that there is a before and after! Cool! What class was that?! Your follower thing disappeared but I'm going to try and follow! :)
Ashley Sloan
i think it is much better! sounds like a very interesting class thanks for sharing what you been learning
LOVE the "after" blue. Great job!
Love the new color! I have never heard of this concept before, but obviously I need to do some more research. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!
Looks so much better! I'll be honest I didn't really get it before but this post made the dirty vs clean idea 'click'. Thanks so much for sharing!
This is such a brilliant concept...I think you just changed the way that I look at colors! (c:
Wow! That is makes such a huge difference! Love it!!
Becca
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Interesting. I have seen the before and thought it was beautiful. I liked it. Now seeing the after picture, it does make a difference. It actually brightened up accent pieces. Nice.
Love the new blue! Blues are hard to work with and I'm a blue and white gal. Thanks for popping in for a visit at TheDedicatedHouse. Nice getting to know all the great ladies out there! Tootles, Kathryn
Love that repaint.
I don't know about the usage of terms dirty and clean, but I've learned a heck of a lot about color from mixing my own paint in the last few months. Almost every shade I use has gray or taupe added into it--which I'm guessing is at the core of dirty?
Much better! I totally see where you are coming from. And I think this helps solve a lot of my color problems. Can the same thing be applied to darker colors though? It's easy to see if lighter color is "dirty" but not so much a darker one.
wowee! that looks waaaaaay better!! ties in much nicer and keeps the room feeling calm and serene!
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Definitely better! :) It really does make a difference...looks awesome with your accents in the room! Great job!
My question has nothing to do with clean and dirty colors, although that is very enlightening :). Where did the shelf on the wall come from?!
Coley, how did I miss this wonderful post! Thank you, and I love the transformation, so beautiful!!
I'll post it on facebook and twitter next!
Love it!
x
Maria
such a difference! LOVE the after, great job. Maria's class was worth it for sure!
It looks amazing. Definitely better after! :)
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