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Updating a Historic Home with Kim Wolfe and HGTV

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Updating a historic home is challenging enough, without adding budget pressures and tight deadlines.  When designer Kim Wolfe called on Paper Moon Painting to come help with her historic home renovation for season 2 of HGTV’s “Why the Heck Did I Buy this House?“, we dove right in!   Joining a historic home update part-way […]

Upcoming Color Trends in 2022

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Try googling “upcoming color trends in interior design” and you’ll get see a plethora of posts listing the “10 (or 15, or 21) most popular paint colors to use right now!”, or “The 2022 color of the month/year”, etc. This post is NOT about that. Since I’m one of the color consultants for Paper Moon […]

How NOT to Pick Paint Color – 5 Common Mistakes

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A recent blog post, from a well-respected source that shall remain nameless, gave some tips and tricks on how to pick paint color.  You’d think this is a simple topic, but I actually cringed when I read the advice listed.  The talented designers in the article gave some suggestions that were, in my opinion, how NOT to […]

Identifying Undertones in Exterior Paint Colors

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The undertones in exterior paint colors can make or break your painting project  –  here’s how to identify them! . If you’re planning to paint the exterior of your home, you can’t just pick a random color out of a fan deck –  you need to know about the ever-present undertones in exterior paint colors, […]

4 Things to Know about Picking Exterior Paint Colors

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Picking exterior paint colors is the scariest part of their project for most homeowners.   The process seems fraught with peril:  What if your house ends up looking garish and (even worse) everybody sees? What if it goes from “old, outdated eyesore” to “expensively painted eyesore”, and now you’ve spent your whole budget and it’s […]

6 Hard Truths your Color Consultant Wants You to Know

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An excited homeowner has just moved into her house, unpacked everything, and is opening the door for the color consultant to come in and work her magic.  As a color consultant, I know exactly what the homeowner is probably thinking…   She is thrilled to be moved in, but NOT with some of the home’s […]

Color Consultant, or Interior Designer?

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Ever want a little help picking a paint color, but you’re not sure who to call – an interior designer, or a color consultant, or your stylish neighbor, or your mom?  Especially when it comes to interior design and knowing what will make their home look good, many of us freeze.  As professional painters, we […]

How a Color Consultant Can Save your Project

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Before I got trained as a color consultant, I used to stress over picking paint colors.   I’d come home from the paint store with ziploc bags full of paint chips.  No such thing as too many choices, right?  Somewhere among all those paint chips would be the perfect color, the one that would make […]

Interior Painting: Using White Paint the Right Way

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White paint is the go-to color for most homeowners in Austin, TX, and with good reason!   (It’s quickly become the go-to color in San Antonio, TX as well, although San Antonio kept its beiges and tan colors a lot longer than Austin did. By the way, the lovely white interior space in our title […]