Colour consultation
Colour, chosen in your light.
A paint chip under shop lights tells you almost nothing. A painted board on your wall at eight in the morning and six at night tells you everything. That is the whole consultation.
How it works
Four steps, ninety minutes, £95.
Walk the house
Jo visits with the fan decks and about sixty painted A4 boards. Ninety minutes, every room you are thinking about, in your light.
Narrow to three
Three colours per room, painted as A4 boards you keep and move around the walls for a few days, morning and evening.
A written scheme
Walls, ceilings, woodwork and any feature for each room, with the brand, name and finish, so it can be bought or repeated years later.
Deducted from the job
The £95 comes off the decorating if we do it. If you paint it yourself, you have a scheme and a shopping list.
The twelve
Our house colours, as a place to start.
Twelve colours we reach for most, with a note on where each one works. Every one is available from the major ranges; the names are ours, the paint is whichever brand you prefer.
Whitchurch Pink
Our most-used wall colour. Warm, not sweet. Try it with a navy alcove.
Taff Navy
Woodwork, alcoves, front doors. Looks black at night, blue by day.
Library Green
Deep enough for a whole room if the windows are big. Brass handles.
Limewash
A warm white that is not yellow. Ceilings in anything but brilliant white.
Sage
Kitchen doors, bathroom walls. Goes with oak and with black.
Clay
A hall colour. Hides scuffs, warms a north-facing room.
Slate
Exterior woodwork and front doors on a rendered house.
Ochre
One wall, a window seat, the inside of a cupboard. Not a bedroom.
Plaster
The colour of a new wall, kept. Bedrooms and nurseries.
Soot
A front door, a chimney breast, a feature ceiling in a tall room.
Duck Egg
Bathrooms and north-facing bedrooms. Cooler than sage.
Oat
A whole-house neutral that is not grey. Works with pink and navy.
Three things we say a lot
Ceilings are not white. Woodwork is a colour. Dark is not small.
Brilliant white ceilings make every wall colour look dirtier; an off-white in the same family as the walls lifts the room. Woodwork painted the same as the walls, or darker, makes a small room feel bigger than white gloss ever does. And a north-facing box room in a deep green with a warm light looks like a library rather than a cell. We will show you with boards; you decide.
Book the ninety minutes.
Pick a morning or an evening, when the light is doing what it does. Jo brings the boards; you keep the scheme.