I chuckled when I saw this ad for Tollens paint, but it demonstrates a great way to transform your color preferences and ideas into actual colors for your walls. Gather up those photos you’ve been setting aside and take them to the paint store for color matching. Or ask your decorative painter to create a special finish based on the fish you’ve got in your hands!
Tollens paint
I found these veggie images with great color:
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and when I saw the recent issue of New York Spaces magazine with the articles on using color in the home, the veggie and fruit colors just leaped out from the paper:
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New York Spaces Photo by Brian Park
This is a lime plaster sample I created on textured wallpaper.
Lime plaster on textured wallpaper
These fun peach colors…
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certainly made their way into this room!
New York Spaces Photo by Brian Park
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They were my starting point for this sample of paint and water-based waxes.
Paint and water-based waxes
You can find color ideas everywhere, even in the kitchen!
