I love this gorgeous pink painting in my room by Kate Merritt Davis. I found it on a recent trip to St. George Island with friends and family, and a rainy day lead us to Apalachicola to shop. I was head over heels over this find! I wanted to put it in a special place, where I would get to see it all the time, so as of today, it hangs above my bed!! My bed is topped with Pine Cone Hill linens, Trina Turk and Lilly Pulitzer pillows, and I think the piece matches perfectly!
This artwork is s a non-representational form of rich color and graphite lines captured on panels of wood. Kate Merritt Davis currently works out of her studio in Irondale, Alabama, while tending a rambling garden in the company of her husband and their three dogs.
We were hired by Willow Point Apartments in Jackson, Mississippi. Willow Point is an affordable housing development that we turned from drab to fab in under 24 hours!
The Marketing and Design With Color team showed up with upbeat attitudes and ready to work. We were ready to tackle the task and arrived on site revved up!
Trip and Mallory meeting up with the Willow Point team
We worked with a divide and conquer mindset.
Our team dynamic is contagious, and aside from re-styling a mini model, we shared with the leasing consultants our experiences, training material and how to have fun in life and at work!
Our team spread out through the property and Mallory took care of marketing, training, motivating and brand development. Trip took care of the photoshoot, casting, videography, staging, and sign setup. Lucy and Katina took care of all the shopping, measuring, styling and behind the scenes work. Talk about a dream team!
Our goal is to create an environment where employees and residents alike are able to leave all their worries at the door and show up and get ready to work with a go-getter attitude!! What we call “ready for company”!!
No matter the budget, we can transform your space from the mundane to the dynamic! We love what we do and we do what we love.
Check out our style guide, before and afters and hire us to design your space!
I love spray painting! I believe color changes everything!! My favorite color is the Hot Pink by Krylon Short Cuts because its so easy to use and it can be applied to almost every surface imaginable! Even plants!!
I spray painted a dead air plant and it came back to life!! Gotta love hot pink!
To perfect your spray painting technique, hold the can about 5 inches or so away from the surface you’re spraying, this way you will get drip free results!
Remember, take your time! Enjoy the process and long live color!
I love Kelly Green!! My favorite coffee cup is a Kate Spade mug that is Kelly green that says “live life colorfully!” I recently needed a great green for a fun zone in a fitness center so I took the cup to the paint store to match!
Indoor basketball at Swallowtail Flats!! Photo by Nathan Leduc
As you know by now I love color, just about any color, however there are a few that I don’t even consider colors! Ask a friend or email me and I will be happy to share. You know, I don’t like spreading negativity!
I found a giant paint index recently as an ad for Pier 1 Imports and it had 108 paint colors, oh happy day! At the bottom of the page it said look at goldengatebridge.org for the paint formulation of international orange, what a fun thing to know, so I did just that and my findings are below!
When the steel for the Golden Gate Bridge was fabricated by Bethlehem Steel at its foundries in PA and NJ, the steel was coated with a red lead primer. As the bridge towers began to rise for the Golden Gate Bridge, the architect Irving F. Morrow was driving home from work in the East Bay via ferry. He was inspired by the red lead color. Morrow did many color studies, which resulted in the specification of the unique Golden Gate Bridge International Orange because it blended well with the nearby hills and contrasted with the ocean and sky.
As the bridge stands today, the color blends perfectly with the changing seasons and colors and the San Francisco skyline. I love it when something is just right!
The color named “International Orange” existed before the bridge (and still exists) and is a color used in the aerospace industry to set things apart from their surroundings, similar to safety orange, but deeper and with a more reddish tone.
The Golden Gate Bridge is painted Golden Gate Bridge International Orange!!
The final color was the result of many studies by architects, sculptors, engineers, painters, and others. It takes a village!!
The Golden Gate Bridge International Orange color is mixed to very specific requirements. The bridge has maintained its formula for GGB International Orange through many years. But don’t worry… the requirements are not proprietary, and anyone can formulate and use the color!! In fact, the color formula is listed on the website and I pulled it for you to see:
Here is the scoop:
CMYK colors are: C= Cyan: 0%, M =Magenta: 69%, Y =Yellow: 100%, K = Black: 6%.
The closest existing color codes to GGB International Orange color are:
PMS 173 (CYMK = 0%, 80%, 94%, 1%),
PMS 174 (CYMK 8%, 85%, 100%, 34%)
Pantone 180 (CYMK 19.4%, 77.9%, 79.6%, 3.6%)
If you absolutely love this color, but have no way to get a PMS or Pantone match, you can purchase the closest off-the-shelf paint color, provided by Sherwin Williams. It is called “Fireweed” (color code SW 6328).
We had fun adding a pop of orange to a mini model in Old Town! Photo by: Suzanne Jones
Hire us today, and let us show you how to add a pop of color to make your space unique!!
Repousse, 1828, re.pous.se, reh-pooh-ZAY, Kirk Stieff Company, acquired by Lenox in 1990, is the business descendant of two famous 19th century companies, Samuel Kirk and Son and The Stieff Company. Samuel Kirk and Son, founded in 1815, is America’s oldest silversmith. The Stieff Company, founded in 1892, is known for its exacting reproductions of historical patterns, many of which can be found in the Smithsonian, and its expertise with the repousse method of working silver.
We were hired to brand Old Town, in Columbus, GA and we named all the house plans after silver patterns! A few pieces of silver on the table enhance the feel of Southern Hospitality, each pattern comes with a story. The timeless elegance and old world sophistication sterling silver brings to the table and the home.
The Repousse model home was designed by Jennifer Schoenberger. It is my favorite house inside, not so much outside! I love this pink room!
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I love this color! The name alyssum is a versatile edging plant – easy, fast, dainty and dense. Alyssum flowers continuously with a delicious fragrance!!
So you just finished painting your bedroom, the downstairs bathroom, the stairs and a tiny spot on the wall… awesome! Now you have all this leftover paint. What do you do with it!?
I found this great idea in HGTV magazine!!
Store leftover paint in clear jars and label them with the room you used it in & the date!
Not only is this a great idea, but the colors look super cute, especially if you have a palette you love!! If you are unsure of how to pick a palette to give your space a little “botox” hire us for a consultation or we can go the whole 9 yards!!
Go for it! Mix scales and colors and pattern with abandon— just go for it! Who wants to play it safe these days? It all works if you love it!
Color creates style by the emotion it gives off and is a powerful tool to quickly bring your space together!
Side note: I love this painting (background of quote) by Michelle Armas!! I bought this piece of original art at the Gregg Irby Gallery in Buckhead. As soon as I walked through the door, I saw it and said:
I’m taking this one!!! Load it into my minivan. I don’t know how you will make it fit, but I just love it!!
Since then, I have purchased several of her pieces. She is such a talented artist. Click here to see her work.
Not only is this a great idea, but the colors look super cute, especially if you have a palette you love!! If you are unsure of how to pick a palette to give your space a little “botox” hire us for a consultation or we can go the whole 9 yards!!