Comments on: Exterior Color Scheme Success Simple as 1, 2, 3! http://www.sensationalcolor.com/colorforyourhome/exterior-color-scheme-success-simple-as-1-2-3/ Expert Color Advice for Your Home Interior and Exterior Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:36:54 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kate Smith http://www.sensationalcolor.com/colorforyourhome/exterior-color-scheme-success-simple-as-1-2-3/comment-page-1/#comment-2887 Kate Smith Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:30:10 +0000 http://www.sensationalcolor.com/colorforyourhome/?p=1462#comment-2887 Yes, I remember you and was glad to reconnect via your new blog. Thank you for your nice comments and I look forward to reading more about designs that are 'well done' around Seattle. Yes, I remember you and was glad to reconnect via your new blog. Thank you for your nice comments and I look forward to reading more about designs that are ‘well done’ around Seattle.

]]> By: Anne Viggiano http://www.sensationalcolor.com/colorforyourhome/exterior-color-scheme-success-simple-as-1-2-3/comment-page-1/#comment-2886 Anne Viggiano Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:21:28 +0000 http://www.sensationalcolor.com/colorforyourhome/?p=1462#comment-2886 Kate, you have a way with vocalizing your innate sense of color! I am so impressed with your blog and thank for commenting on our little baby blog :)I have already learned so much from reading this morning......If you don't recall, we met on Bainbridge Island in 2005 at the Eisemann workshop..... Kate, you have a way with vocalizing your innate sense of color! I am so impressed with your blog and thank for commenting on our little baby blog :) I have already learned so much from reading this morning……If you don’t recall, we met on Bainbridge Island in 2005 at the Eisemann workshop…..

]]> By: Kate Smith http://www.sensationalcolor.com/colorforyourhome/exterior-color-scheme-success-simple-as-1-2-3/comment-page-1/#comment-2873 Kate Smith Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:47:20 +0000 http://www.sensationalcolor.com/colorforyourhome/?p=1462#comment-2873 Yes, it was lighter than most cedar shake homes in the area and I do think that helped it stand out. Good point Vicki about tonal shifts. I too like that...at least for now :-) Yes, it was lighter than most cedar shake homes in the area and I do think that helped it stand out.

Good point Vicki about tonal shifts. I too like that…at least for now :-)

]]> By: Vicki Cornelius http://www.sensationalcolor.com/colorforyourhome/exterior-color-scheme-success-simple-as-1-2-3/comment-page-1/#comment-2872 Vicki Cornelius Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:46:00 +0000 http://www.sensationalcolor.com/colorforyourhome/?p=1462#comment-2872 Perhaps the fact that it is a lighter exterior color than I am used to seeing in a cedar shake that makes it more significant that they come from same base undertone frankly in interior colors--I find the same concept works best usually--to try to use the same undertone for walls and trim--because I like tonal shifts rather than contrasting shifts--at least right now I do Perhaps the fact that it is a lighter exterior color than I am used to seeing in a cedar shake that makes it more significant that they come from same base undertone
frankly in interior colors–I find the same concept works best usually–to try to use the same undertone for walls and trim–because I like tonal shifts rather than contrasting shifts–at least right now I do

]]> By: Kate Smith http://www.sensationalcolor.com/colorforyourhome/exterior-color-scheme-success-simple-as-1-2-3/comment-page-1/#comment-2868 Kate Smith Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:01:54 +0000 http://www.sensationalcolor.com/colorforyourhome/?p=1462#comment-2868 I don't usually focus as much on undertone for the siding and shutter colors either although I do consider it when looking at which white or off-white I choose. In this case though I couldn't help but wonder if that's what made the color scheme work. The color for the shutters would not have been one I thought of as my first choice yet after looking at it and asking my self the question about undertone it opened my mind to yet one more way to think about color combinations that might work. It seems its never too late to learn new tricks :-) I don’t usually focus as much on undertone for the siding and shutter colors either although I do consider it when looking at which white or off-white I choose. In this case though I couldn’t help but wonder if that’s what made the color scheme work. The color for the shutters would not have been one I thought of as my first choice yet after looking at it and asking my self the question about undertone it opened my mind to yet one more way to think about color combinations that might work. It seems its never too late to learn new tricks :-)

]]> By: Maria Killam http://www.sensationalcolor.com/colorforyourhome/exterior-color-scheme-success-simple-as-1-2-3/comment-page-1/#comment-2867 Maria Killam Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:59:01 +0000 http://www.sensationalcolor.com/colorforyourhome/?p=1462#comment-2867 That is a gorgeous house! It's interesting your analysis of the colours being in the same undertone. I have never thought of that when specifying exterior colours. Everyone has their own way of specifying colour! .-= Maria Killam´s last blog ..<a href="http://colourmehappyblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/exterior-colour-consultation-west.html" rel="nofollow">Exterior Colour Consultation in West Vancouver; Before & After</a> =-. That is a gorgeous house! It’s interesting your analysis of the colours being in the same undertone. I have never thought of that when specifying exterior colours. Everyone has their own way of specifying colour!
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