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Color Phobic?
Put Your Haunting, Color-Phobic Nightmares to Rest

— Admit it! You, like the rest of us, are tired of decorating with the same boring beige and off-white colors. Fear no more. Put your haunting, color-phobic nightmares to rest. is here to rescue you from wrapping your home in those all too familiar neutral, no-color doldrums!

With 40% of today’s paint purchases the result of an original color mismatch, there is clearly a need for guidance. As a certified Dewey Color Consultant, Samira Hasan will go beyond holding your hand during the terrifying color selection process. Each homeowner will actually receive a leave-behind design palette, based on their favorite colors, orchestrated into perfect paint, fabric, and accessory combination

The patented Dewey Color Coordinator^®, combined with the multi-patented Dewey Color System^®, the world’s first validated color test, fuses scientific facts with practicality. Over 25,000 possible combinations come together to create aesthetically beautiful rooms and an all-about-me space—an entirely new paradigm in the world of color and design.

About

Good news! We now have in the Central Florida, Space Coast and Vero Beach areas a way to turn even the faint paint customers’ home into a joyful retreat. Samira Hasan, now a certified Dewey Color Consultant, has been assisting clients with décor for over 5 years.

Dewey Sadka’s patented color coordinating system is used by certified Dewey Color Consultants to ensure no-mistake color combinations. This color measurement and evaluation tool has been featured on HGTV.COM, the Discovery Channel, CNN, and in Better Homes and Gardens, Metropolitan Home, Elle—Canada, Women’s Day, Woman’s World, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, National Public Radio, and over 40 other national magazines. His book, The Dewey Color System: Choose Your Colors, Change Your Life (Three Rivers Press/Crown Publishing a division of Random House) is a best seller in Japan and expanding worldwide. Sadka’s new book, The Dewey Color System: The Ultimate Compatibility Test for Love, Friendship and Career Success was just released in 2006.

The Dewey Color System

“We Make Color Easy”

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If you’d like more information about We Make Color Easy, or to hire Samira Hasan, a certified Dewey Color Consultant, please visit SamiraHasanDesign.com or call 321.960.3750.

There is no need to default to beige.

By Margi Kyle

Every time I teach a class or give a lecture on color, sheer panic comes over people’s faces. Everyone seems scared to death of color.

Let’s examine why.

Color makes a very strong statement. Color evokes emotion. There is power in a can of paint.

In selecting color in your rooms you always start with the shell, the floor and walls. In a new home, they sky is the limit – but most people still stick with boring beige.

Let’s give the walls some color. Wedgwood blue and the dark greens are wonderful colors to work with. Don’t be afraid to use dark colors if favor of cool blues, greens, grays, black and white, which expand space. Making a room look big isn’t always comfortable.

In a small family room where one of my clients had lots of pine furniture, hunter green was used on the walls. The carpet was a light beige and the sofas were in a print with beige, greens and peach. When entering the room, the strength of the color was reassuring and comfortable.

If your furniture is getting tired looking, paint or wallpaper your walls the same color as the furniture so they will blend in. If your furniture is new, then paint your walls a contrasting color to set them off.

You may think I am against warm colors – I am not.

I do feel, however, the elegance of the cooler colors can be warmed up by using a complementary color scheme. Peach, yellows, reds are warm colors. Warm colors are stimulating and should be used in rooms with northern or eastern exposure.

I would never put a hyper child in a red room. Blues, grays, or greens would be more soothing. I also feel children should have a say in what colors they prefer to live with.

Too much of any color is depressing. Color should flow throughout your home. Sometimes, it is helpful for my clients to have a colored floor plan.

Once you have a plan, color isn’t as scary. If you have pulled your room together through color, any combination of color can work.

You need a dominant color about 70 percent, a secondary color 25 percent and accent color 5 percent. Competition of color in any room is hard to live with. The darker the color, the more light you need.

Why not add more color in your home? Don’t be afraid of what your friends think. You live there. Do what makes you happy.

Greetings readers,

Today I would like to share one of the current design trends in home interiors, namely natural wall coverings.

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A few years ago natural wall coverings were used exclusively in high end residential and commercial projects. However, they have become more popular in the modern day. As they say in the virtual world “trending” these days is the use of wall coverings as a ceiling treatment.

So what does the term, natural wall coverings, stand for?

Simply put, natural wall coverings are products that are ecofriendly and sustainable. Examples include grass cloth, sisal, silk, bamboo, cork, rice paper and such. Unlike vinyl based wall coverings natural wall coverings are non-toxic and VOC free (VOC stands for volatile organic compound).

The beauty of natural wall coverings is in its versatility, as it can be used in any space whether it is contemporary, traditional or transitional.

On a final note, I wanted to share of bit of history regarding wall coverings. The earliest wall coverings were in the form of painted decorated leather, introduced to Europeans in the 11th century by Arabs from Morocco.

Fall is here and I am inspired to share some tips and designer jargon on color with my clients and friends.

If you are anything like me, you get excited by the vast and dazzling world of color.

Here are some tips and tricks that would allow you to “decorate without disaster”.

 Color terminologies frequently used in the professional world are Hue, Chroma and Value.

Hue is the name of a particular color, quality that distinguishes one color from another. While Chroma is the purity and saturation of color. Value basically means how light or dark a hue is on a scale from white to black.

Now with this knowledge in hand if someone says to you “Oh that green is of very high chroma”   you would know they are talking about an intense green e.g Neon Green.

Coming back to the tips part

Currently Accent Walls and Graphic Elements are in vogue which gives you a perfect opportunity to use a bright color without overwhelming the interiors.

Keep in mind bold bright colors look different and may become overpowering on the wall compared to the small color chip you chose it from.

Avoid using high sheen finish for the bright hue as it well create more reflection and may show more imperfections.

Resist the temptation to use a variety of wall colors in a single room unless you have a particular theme you are going for.

 Last but not the least test all colors beforehand; examine them in daylight and nighttime. Live with color for few days to make certain you don’t get tired of it.