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Interior Design Secrets on How to Choose the Perfect Paint Color for your Home

Have you ever walked into the paint store, approached the rainbow myriad of colors on the wall, choose what you thought was the absolute perfect color for you wall, bought 3 gallons of paint paying about $50 a gallon, hired the painter to paint your walls, and when the color went up YOU HATED IT!!! If you have ever had that happen you are NOT alone. This happens a lot! I had one woman tell me she had the painter paint 5 different paint colors in her kitchen and then she called me.Crazy Paint Chip Lady

What is your Style? Could it be Transitional Midwestern?!

I am in contact with several households each year and one of the questions I always ask is , “What is your preferred style?” Sometime this question is easily answered and sometimes it is not. The traditional people know for sure they are traditional and the contemporary people know they are contemporary but the other styles fall somewhere in the middle of all that. Most people will define their style based on what they see in advertisements. Retail stores like Pottery Barn and Restoration Hardware and Ikea have established a style all of their own.

Christmas in Ohio

This year the winter weather hit Ohio quite early….we had snow around Thanksgiving and that is very unusual! The Christmas season came and went very quickly but we were not lacking in the cold/snow department. I am amazed what a little tiny snowflake can do to the feeling of Christmas. Although it didn’t actually snow on Christmas day we had snow on Christmas eve. It felt like a gift all in itself that Christmas had arrived and we were to stop and enjoy the peacefulness that the snowfall resembles.

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