Can You Handle the Colour? Warline Transforms a Customer’s Home using Benjamin Moore Colour Stories As I mentioned in a previous post we just completed our first interior repaint using Colour Stories, Benjamin Moore’s new line of paint colours. We were trying this new colour palette at the same time we were testing driving our […]
When Should You get the Outside of Your House Painted? It hasn’t skipped my attention that the weather in Vancouver is getting slightly better. Funny thing about the sun. It gets people thinking about being outside again and all of those projects that need attention. Exterior painting and exterior house colours have been high on […]
Single Colour Paint Chips – Making Choosing Colours Easier I have a drawer full of paint chips. I didn’t mean to collect them. It just kind of happened over time. Lots of trips to the paint store and many (many) minutes spent standing in front of the wall of colour samples pondering possible combinations. We […]
Vancouver Paint Colours & Home Decorating Ideas: Colour Matching – Sin or Smart? I decided to write about colour matching as a result of a series of events that happened over the last couple of weeks. First, I had a designer blame a bad paint colour choice on a bad colour match. They wanted us […]
Love Thy Neighbour’s House Colour? Not everyone follows the commandment “Love Thy Neighbour” but most of us are smart enough to appreciate that at the very minimum keeping things friendly with the people that live around you is wiser than the alternative. Which is why I have put off writing this series of articles for the last […]
Count the Colour Mistakes – Exterior Paint Sins from My Neighbourhood So far, I received a pretty warm response about my new series Not So Nice in My Neighbourhood. Mind you I haven’t heard anything from my neighbours. I’ll keep you posted on how that goes. So are you ready for my first neighbourhood house? Here […]
The Almost Nicest Navy House Now that I have cleared the air, it’s back to the business of calling out bad paint jobs. .This pretty navy-blue house almost made it on my nicest list. I have always loved the combo of this dark navy and white. I thought the blue was Benjamin Moore Hale Navy (HC-154) but […]
When Should You get the Outside of Your House Painted? Believe it or not I am not calling out this house for being green. . While I can understand how on first glance the colour scheme of this house can make you double take and wonder “what were they thinking?”, it’s not the very green colour of this […]
Please Don’t Make Me Paint Your House Cloud White Today is my first day of True Colour Expert Training with Maria Killam. I wasn’t actively looking to take time off during the height of our busy season at Warline Painting to spend three days learning about the undertones of colour, but when I read a […]
The Magic Trick for Choosing the Perfect Colour A few of my friends and colleagues have asked me why I haven’t written about the True Colour Expert Course with Maria Killam that I took three (okay almost four) weeks ago. Gosh, time goes by fast. Well, I’ve been busy guys. I’ve been working on new colour consultations […]