Let’s Talk About Color Ebbing™
(And Why You’re Allowed to Use it Too) Introducing my two new color guides and the little designer secret I finally gave a name. Here
Color is the single most transformative tool in design, and it is also the most misunderstood. I have watched homeowners spend months agonizing over the right shade of white, and I have watched others grab a color from a chip rack and live with the consequences. Neither approach serves you as well as understanding a few essential truths about how light, undertone, and surrounding landscape interact to make a color sing or fall completely flat.
In the Lowcountry, light is its own character. The rosy warmth of a South Carolina morning, the green-drenched quality of our late afternoons, the way salt air and humidity shift the way pigment reads on a surface, all of it matters. I dedicate these posts to helping you choose paint colors for your whole home, inside and out, with that regional context as your foundation.
We will talk through color families, whole-home color flow, exterior palettes for historic and coastal properties, and the corrective strategies that transform a difficult space. Color confidence is learnable, and this is where we build it together.
(And Why You’re Allowed to Use it Too) Introducing my two new color guides and the little designer secret I finally gave a name. Here
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When you’re building a new home, your kitchen is more than just another room…it’s the heartbeat of your everyday life. And in a new build,
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We’re in the depths of design today and find ourselves dreaming about the blue and white design trend. We know… It’s not exactly new, but
