Colour Consulting
Knowing what colour you want in your spaces is easy - Hue is Intuitive. Getting the right value (dark to light]) or chroma (clean to dirty) is the challenge. It takes years of experience to take the guess work out of colour decisions. A few hours with Janice can be your insurance policy against expensive or disheartening mistakes.
Janice understands the way context affects colour. Scale, lighting, and existing materials and the interconnection between spaces - flow - need to be considered. Also everyone has a unique response to colour. Janice can calibrate the decisions to balance your psychological and emotional needs. Colour does not need to be colourful. Some of the best combinations can be so subtle, you may not even see them but you will feel them…..every day.
Janice can deploy colour to correct flaws and enhance the strengths of your spaces. Don’t just use colour to decorate;with Janice’s help you can use it to renovate! Book a consultation so you can start feeling the difference good colour can make. All for less than the cost of one colour mistake.
Exteriors
Choosing exterior colour can be daunting. It is the public face of your home so it is important that any colour you add hits the right balance, one that suits the other existing materials - stone, brick, shingles - and settles beautifully into its context - nature and neighbours. One consultation is all you need to take away the guesswork.
Kitchens and bathrooms
Janice LOVES to help with any room but especially kitchens and bathrooms.
Rather than be overwhelmed with all the decisions you need to make, let Janice help you plan the space layout, the tile laying pattern, the lighting, the materials and the colours. Whether you are using an architect, a kitchen fabricator or you are going with IKEA, when your decisions start to feel like guess work, let her help you achieve clarity and confidence quickly and easily. One planning session can save time and money.
Full Design or Design one consultation at a time.
For those who want everything done for them, Janice is happy to design your place top to bottom. She provides a letter of agreement, a rough budget and an estimate of time needed. Every decision is client approved.
Most of Janice’s clients prefer to drive the design process and use her as their personal design coach when needed, as needed, to enhance their ideas and to edit out costly mistakes. Consultations can include: colour, lighting, space planning, millwork, furniture planning, sourcing, tile selection and layout, flooring, and surface materials. Upholstery and window treatments. Down-sizing decisions. Sequencing. It is an ego free process that is all about you. What you need when you need it. Consultations are tailored to meet your specific design challenges.
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Power of Colour Workshops
Colour affects how we feel, how we behave and how we experience place. Colour is perhaps the most powerful tool that designers, artists – everyone – has at their disposal. It is also the most misunderstood and under-utilized. This is why Janice developed her Power of Colour Workshops. She is committed to sharing what she has learned from over 20 years of colour consulting and a lifetime of working with colour in many fields. Workshops explore colour in the multifaceted way that she believes is essential for appreciating it’s amazing power and gaining the confidence to use it fully. Let colour be the foundation for transforming spaces and changing lives.