Fresh Look Colour Blog

Thanks for checking out my blog today - it's going to be a short one but well worth checking out.  Can you believe summer is almost over already!?  It's been a busy season for exterior color consultations (both online and onsite) and I wanted to share just one of my favourite color transformations from this year.    When I initially got to my client's home for the consultation - truth be told - they wasn't even sure if they wanted to change the color.  Their home is a beautiful craftsman, in Calgary, that is over 100 years old.  The owners knew it needed to be painted but weren't sure if they were ready to change the color.  While it was a beautiful home I knew that a color change would could really bring it to a whole other level.  They had recently changed the stone on the home and my thoughts were that a darker, richer color would really pull it altogether.  Here is what it looked like before the paint color makeover. Source After spending...

Hi Everyone Thanks for checking out my blog.  It's a rainy, gloomy day here today in Calgary so I decided to get busy on my feature paint colour for the month of June.  We've had a late start to spring here but it's finally starting to green up!   I hope things are going well for you as we are slowly returning to, what will probably be for quite a while, our new normal. Fresh Look's Feature Paint Colour for June - Mediterranean SW 7617 Mediterranean by Sherwin Williams is a beautiful teal colour.   Mediterranean is a very livable colour as it does have some gray in it as well.  You've probably heard the colour teal and turquoise used interchangeably but turquoise is a light to medium tone and more blue than green while teal is a darker blue-green.  You'll also hear Peacock blue as another description.  I would refer to Mediterranean as a classic colour - meaning it's a colour that will not date itself over time. In this next picture we used M...