Steering the Color Wheel
Be in the Driver’s Seat During Your Color Consultations
- Who: Interior Designers, Decorators, Redesigners and Home Stagers
- What: Two full days of presentation and activities specifically designed to enhance your color knowledge and build your confidence when choosing colors for your clients
- When:
- Thursday and Friday, January 12 & 13
- Friday & Saturday, February 17 & 18
- Time: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm each day (lunch included)
- Location: Fremont, CA (location details will be provided upon registration)
- Class Fee: $349
Topics covered:
- How to conduct successful color consultations
- Developing personalized color schemes/palettes for your clients
- Color and pattern matching: working with fabrics and paints
- Where to find color inspiration
- Science of color—applying color theory to real-life color consultations
- How color can evoke emotions
- Color schemes that work in real homes–monochromatic, analogous, complementary, triad, tetrad, split complementary
- Vocabulary/Color terminology
- Effective ways to use fan decks in your consultations
- Determining a “base” or undertone of a color
- How light affects color; taking lighting situations into account
Appropriate colors for different decorating styles (such as Southwest; Tuscan; French country and more)- Appropriate colors for selling your home
- Cultural/age-related/gender-related considerations about color and how this affects color preferences
- Color trends and how they are determined
- Specifying the right product and finish for the job
- Ways to pick paint colors for open floor plans; harmonious colors for the whole house
- Proper color proportions in each room
- Using color to solve problems
- Dealing with ceilings, doors, trim
- Helping clients overcome their fear of color
- Tools of the trade: looking more professional during your consultations
