Color Consultations

Staging Diva Reviews Sherwin Williams Chip It For Home Stagers

Home stagers, redesigners and color consultants often look for jumping off points to develop a color palette. Many times I’ve found inspiration in a piece of art or nature. For example, the Staging Diva logo colors were inspired by cutting into a ripe papaya. I discovered a new color tool for home stagers Sherwin Williams [...]

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Home Staging Uses Color Repetition When Decorating a Home To Sell

When you’re home staging, it’s not always possible to repaint the walls because of time or budget concerns. And it’s not always necessary if you’re creative with placement of accent pieces and accessories. Picking a bright signature color and repeating it in different rooms in a home can really perk up a tired interior. I [...]

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Color Consultations: A Behind the Scenes Look From Staging Diva

I love flipping through color books and paint swatches, it totally brightens my mood and gives me energy. Sometimes I bring some of my color books to a client’s home to help them figure out what look and mood they’re drawn to before I recommend paint colors for their home. That is, if I’m doing [...]

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Home Staging Marketing Lessons From Paint Colors Befitting a Man Cave

Wait until you see what paint company CIL has done to reposition their paint colors for a new audience! It’s a brilliant stroke (pun intended) that I just had to bring to your attention— not only for the marketing genius of it but for the delicious visuals. Are you as passionate about color as I [...]

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Home staging services add value to paint color specialist’s business

When you have a passion for home staging and/or interior design it’s impossible to keep it stifled inside.  I love hearing from Staging Diva Graduates like Pamela Sholty who have left behind jobs they despised to reinvent themselves as home stagers. Pamela works from Fresno, California, as “The Color Coach of the Central Valley”.  She [...]

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Staging a home with color-crazy sellers

Last month I posted a staging dilemma asking what you would do if you were tasked with staging a home for sellers reluctant to tone down their color-crazy home complete with turquoise kitchen and hot pink living room. In this scenario, before you had a chance to address the color, the homeowner stated that they [...]

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Stagers – how do you handle color-crazy home sellers?

You walk up to the home and it looks like a great property. In fact, you can’t help but wonder why it’s been on the market for so long without any interest whatsoever. The curb appeal is fantastic; the gardens are gorgeous and well-manicured, the lawns are mowed and there are no toys or chalk [...]

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Interior Redesign Colors Take More Courage

Some home stagers express concern about offering color consultation services. They feel comfortable recommending colors for a home staging project but worry about picking colors for a redesign project for a clients who isn’t moving. In many cases, the fear comes from knowing how many times we repaint our own rooms because the color isn’t [...]

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