Last weekend I went to the Vancouver Home & Interior Design Show. As I walked along I came upon a booth by a good client of mine (he’s in the renovation business). Looking at the wrong, pale colour on the walls I nudged him and said “Hey why didn’t you call me to pick the colour?”, he said “I did--this is it”. It looked MINT GREEN and you know what the colour was? CC-680 Raindance!!
Every time I get just a little too smug about my colour advice, it takes me down a notch or two :) I had to tell you the story, it was just so funny, me asking him why he didn’t call me!! So there you go, today’s colour lesson of the day. In a huge stadium with ugly florescent lighting, the colour should be twice as dark as you think it should be to get the effect you want.
I was so cranky I walked away without getting a photo! But that [above] was what it was supposed to look like!
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