Do you wish you knew how to use color as a tool to affect the way that you feel in your home?  Do you get frustrated when trying to pull together a color palette on your own?  Do you have a vision that you just can't quite achieve?  Colors have vibrations that create universal emotional responses as well as individual responses based on our memories and experiences. 

Color has always been a guiding factor in how I moved through the world.  I was born with very poor eyesight.  It wasn't corrected until I was in first grade.  My sister loves to tell the story of when we drove into the driveway the first time after I got my glasses.  I yelled out, "Mommy, the trees have leaves!"  It never occurred to me that you could actually see the leaves on the trees.  I think that was one of the reasons I became hyper-sensitive to color.   Where other people saw contrast and harsh lines, everything blended together in my eyes.  

I started drawing and painting very young.  My parents enrolled me in my first art classes at 8.  Often I would find myself taking my glasses off for a second to "see something better."  It made me a very slow painter.  And frustrated my teacher.  Now that I spend my days analyzing and choosing colors for others, I understand.  I squint my eyes and let things fall out of focus to see how an individual color is going to play throughout a space.  

It's funny how your demons become your super powers when you embrace them!

In this episode, I unpack the universal influences as well as how memories and experiences play into emotional responses to color to help you use color as a tool to help you up level your home in ways you never imagined it could.

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