One of my past students at Vancouver Community College, Nour Enayeh recently completed a decorating project with a Montessori school. This is the ‘after photo’ (the before is the second one). She said that the Montessori program believes that kids should not have a bunch of primary colours to distract them from their activities, so the room definitely has a calmer feeling, than the normal appearance of a kindergarten classroom.
Before
The client wanted to change the carpets as they were dirty (not that we can see that here in the photos) but it was not in the budget. However she did pick a new colour for them (HC-33) above, and Nour said that after it was painted everyone was asking if they had installed new carpet.
I was once called out to pick colours for the hallways of 2 very large apartment buildings. The strata was very unhappy with the existing gray carpeting in the halls because (in their opinion) it looked dirty from the time it was installed (2 years previously) and they were discussing replacing it. I saw the problem immediately and it was that the colour [on the walls] was way too clean. It was a very pale and clean yellow, OC-114 called Lemon Ice.
Nour said that the images she took with her camera actually made the wall colour look more green (she took them with a flash because it was late in the afternoon), but the colour actually was a perfect match to the carpeting.
Great job Nour, thanks for sharing these with us!
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