Do you want to learn how to select paint colors for your home? It's such a daunting task! Do you question yourself? What if I make a mistake? What if I won't like it? What will my family think? Let me make it easy for you.

Here's the good news! Choosing paint colors is actually quite simple! Just like anything else, it takes some knowledge and preparation to get the best outcome. Once you know the process, you will be wondering why more people don't know this!

I know how you feel. As a color consultant I have completed over 5000 successful jobs and almost every homeowner has called me when they tried and gave up in frustration.

Since I get many requests for advice, I felt it was time to get this info into the hands of as many homeowners as possible. I have been teaching professional courses since 2007 but nothing really to the average homeowner who i see struggling with paint color all the time!  So, I have created a class specifically for people that teaches the...

It's always a pleasure to join our fellow color experts to share color knowledge and expertise and, we think this article by Redfin is one of the best we've seen. Timely advice for anyone planning an exterior paint job this season! 

 18 Must-Know Exterior House Painting Tips from Experts

Updating your home's exterior with a fresh coat of paint is a task many homeowners will undertake with spring approaching and is undoubtedly one of the most important factors to consider when it comes to enhancing your home's curb appeal. And there's no wonder why exterior paint colors are important - they can make or break a potential homebuyer's perception of your home.

With so many paint colors, finishes, and factors to consider when undertaking an exterior paint update, choosing a paint color can seem like an intimidating decision to make. To help ease the stress that comes with such a big design decision, Redfin reached out to us and other paint color experts from Austin,...

Every once in a while everyone gets in a work-related rut, especially entrepreneurs. 

It's inevitable because nothing ever goes perfectly and rarely just as planned. The vision we once had has become a bit tarnished and the days have become quite routine. Sometimes it's a matter of getting stuck in the same old routines just because "we've always done it that way", "It's worked for us so far" or "If it ain't broke don't fix it".

So, what's the price you're paying for apathy? 

I can assure you that if you're not inspired neither are your clients and uninspired clients typically aren't paying clients. So apathy means you're probably leaving a lot of money on the table! But, the biggest price of apathy to an entrepreneur is the loss of a dream. That feeling of doing what you love as if money wasn't a consideration. The idea that you're going to change the world.

Don't lose the dream, just reinvent yourself. 

Get the passion back. After all the biggest allure of...

Thinking outside the cubicle

There's a mindset that pervades our culture when it comes to identifying "creatives." Often, they are described as the "crazy" or "artsy-fartsy" personalities in the group. Even worse, creative types are typically associated with laziness and often pegged as unreliable. Of course, this couldn't be farther from the truth! People with evolved creative brains are far from lazy, in fact, they work twice as hard and long as their counterparts because they have the drive to see their vision complete. Creatives are NOT clock watchers! Projects they are involved in are not typically experienced as a job or a task, but rather as a personal challenge. and there's nothing a creative type loves more than a challenge!

I confess I AM that creative person. I discovered early on in my life that being assigned to a cubicle or office doing the same thing day after day was akin to sentencing me to solitary confinement in a high-security prison.

I tried to...

As my business as a color consultant, specialty store retailer, mentor and teacher evolved I have quickly discovered that trying to be everything to everybody was not working well for me. I felt like I was on a hamster wheel and couldn't get off! I instinctively knew something was off but couldn't pinpoint it. I couldn't concentrate or focus on any one thing long enough to give it my best effort.

It wasn't until I made an appointment with a business mentor did I realize that the answer was simple. As he so deftly pointed out to me that while my "well rounded" list of services was impressive, they diluted my true focus and desire.  "Eliminate them" he said, "do you enjoy them?" he asked. "No, not really but they pay the bills (that's important right?) "Yes, but they are taking away from being profitable and successful in what you really want and enjoy!" he replied. Well, after a few horrifying seconds and visions of eliminating much of my website, I decided he was...