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
