Free color consultations

I hereby offer the world my free color consulting services. If you present to me a problem in which you need to make a color-based decision and need a second opinion, you are free to email me (this was always true, of course). Tell me what's going on. Which way are you leaning? What other colors are at play and can't be changed?

I like thinking about colors and will happily ponder your dilemma. I especially like picking wall paint colors, but I'm up for anything. 

Recently I helped my sister pick a wall color for her newly renovated kitchen-dining room situation. Here's what I knew - she has cherry cabinets and stainless appliances. There is a white door in the dining room and white trim. The floors are on the light side of medium brown.

What she wanted - she was thinking warm. Very tan. A bit orange. Some brown. Very neutral and warm. She was leaning light in tone under the common assumption that it lessens the pain of regret.

What I suggested - I suggested she not go warm, and instead go cool to balance the cherry cabinets. If she was going to stay neutral, I was trying to get it as far from beige as possible. When I learned she really wanted a tan color for the adjacent living room, I was sure cool (or as white as possible) was best.

Light blue-green/sage was my first impulse because red and green are complements and blue would keep it more to this family's tastes. I stayed with Behr colors because that's where she started and it was easiest. When pressed for top choices for THIS situation, I suggested mainly light colors for the same reason as my sister. I later went back and told her that if she embraced the blue-green idea and thought she could go deeper, Recycled Glass was my new top choice.

She ended up going with my first top choice (for her), Whitened Sage. It's quite white, she reports. I'm told you can only really tell it's green when you look at it near the white trim. This doesn't please me, but total satisfaction and non-regret is reported. Go team!