Finding Your Color Palette
By thoughtfully selecting and applying color palettes, a homeowner can enhance their space’s aesthetic appeal, functionality, and emotional impact. They skillfully combine theory, trends, and personal preferences to create environments that are not only beautiful but also reflective of the inhabitants’ needs and desires.
Color is important because it influences mood, enhancing a space’s functionality and appeal.
An interior designer strategically uses color to transform spaces and evoke specific emotions. By selecting and combining hues, they create desired atmospheres—warm colors like reds and yellows evoke energy and coziness, while cool colors like blues and greens promote calm and relaxation. Designers consider color theory, including complementary and analogous schemes, to achieve balance and harmony. They also account for natural and artificial lighting, impacting colors’ appearance. Additionally, they use color to highlight architectural features, define zones within open plans, and convey the client’s personality and style, ensuring the space is both functional and visually appealing.

Paint can transform a space
• Paint is the easiest way to transform a home. Choosing paint can be overwhelming for clients. Kirstie will build your color palate design specifically for your home. Light from outside and inside can confuse our perception of color and Kirstie will help navigate these obstacles in selecting the right tones for your spaces.
Setting the Mood and Atmosphere
• Emotional Impact: Different colors evoke different emotions and atmospheres. For example, blues and greens often create a calming effect, while reds and yellows can energize a space.
• Theme Consistency: Color palettes help establish and maintain the overall theme or concept of a space, whether it’s modern, rustic, minimalist, or eclectic.
Defining Spaces and Functions
• Zoning: Different colors can delineate different areas within a larger space, such as using a certain color palette for the kitchen and another for the living room in an open-plan design.
• Functionality: Specific colors are chosen based on the function of the room. For instance, lighter colors might be used in workspaces for better concentration, while darker, more relaxing hues might be chosen for bedrooms.
Creating Visual Flow
• Consistency Across Spaces: In multi-room projects, designers use color palettes to create a visual flow from one room to another, ensuring a cohesive look throughout the home or building.
Utilizing Natural and Artificial Light
• Color Perception: Colors can look different under various lighting conditions. Designers consider how natural and artificial light affects color perception throughout the day and adjust their palettes accordingly.


Wallpaper Consultation
• Wallpaper is a design that can transform a space dramatically with lots of texture, giving a room personality. Applying to the smallest spaces like powder rooms, mudrooms, feature walls, and ceilings makes these areas come alive. Wallpaper can provide a subtle or dramatic style to a space.
Enhancing Architectural Features
• Camouflage or Emphasis: Colors can either draw attention to or away from certain elements, like using darker colors to make a high ceiling feel lower or brighter colors to make a small room feel larger.
Incorporating Trends and Personal Preferences
• Staying Current: Designers stay updated on color trends to incorporate contemporary looks into their designs.
• Client Preferences: Understanding a client’s tastes and preferences is crucial. Designers often present various color palettes for clients to choose from, ensuring the final design reflects their personality and style.
Color is used to create mood, enhance space, and reflect personal style. An interior designer balances hues, contrasts, and saturation to achieve harmony, emphasize focal points, and affect the perception of room size and lighting, ensuring a cohesive and aesthetically pleasing environment tailored to a client’s needs.