Bridget Beari Color Rule #34 - Create Your Crowning Moment

April 03, 2020 by Susan Jamieson in Bridget Beari Color Rules

Bridget Beari Color Rule:

Create Your Crowning Moment

When you paint your crown a contrasting color from your walls and ceiling, you create a real statement in your room.

Dark crown attracts immediate attention and creates a graphic look.

White trim between cream walls and a blue ceiling creates a crisp and tailored look.

Design by Bridget Beari, photo by Joe Bernado

Always use a semi-gloss finish for an even greater contrast.

Don't forget to check out all our Bridget Beari paint colors!
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**TIP:**

**This is a great tip from** **A Journey to a Dream** **blog. Take old plastic milk cartons and use a hot needle to punch holes in the top. Use as a sprinkler or watering can.**

Happy Painting…

Bridget Beari Color Rule #25 - Begin with Colors suggested by your Masonry or Roof.

March 25, 2020 by Susan Jamieson in Bridget Beari Color Rules

Bridget Beari Color Rule:

Begin with Colors suggested by your Masonry or Roof.

This tip is directed at picking exterior colors for your home. Certain items like the roof, stone or brick on the house are usually not changing. Begin with thinking of colors that are in these structural features of the house.

For this house you would start with the brown roof color. Choose colors that are complementary to brown - yellows, creams for the walls and then accent with a color that is complementary to both the wall and roof.

Try this color from Sherwin Williams:

SW 6672 Morning Sun

Love the Grey cedar shake singles on this home. Working with the gray roof and singles allows for a great graphic contrast but could also give you the opportunity to incorporate blues, greens and blacks.

There are so many colors in a stone facades that picking an accent color can be as exciting as adding jewelry to an outfit. I look the grey blue shutters in this home.

Try this Benjamin Moore color for this shutter look!

Tip:

As I prepare my garden and house for another open house tour in May. It's time to add the compost to the garden. I've been composting for years - kitchen scraps and all. Sometimes the compost is better than others but this layering process from Martha Stewart has really work!

1. Site Your Bin

Proper siting means easier management. Full sun necessitates frequent watering; full shade slows decomposition. The bin should be convenient to a water source.

2. Start with Brown

Begin your pile with an airy carbon layer, ideally a loose pile of fallen leaves.

3. Add Green

Aim for half as much green as brown. Too much green can lead to malodorous, slimy conditions.

4. Spring In Some Soil

A scoop of soil in the pile encourages microorganisms. Some experts recommend adding fertilizer, too, but a well-built pile will have enough nitrogen without it.

5. Repeat Brown and Green Layer

Continue layering browns and greens in a 2-to-1 ratio, ending with a layer of brown. Small pieces decompose faster, so consider cutting down any large ones.

Happy Painting…

and gardening!

Bridget Beari Color Rule #24 - Try Walking Side by Side

March 24, 2020 by Susan Jamieson in Bridget Beari Color Rules

Bridget Beari Color Rule:

Try Walking Side by Side

If you are trying different color combos, try analogous colors. These are any three colors which are side by side on the color wheel such as yellow green, blue green, orange yellow ...... These colors work well in combinations but for best results always make one color dominate.

Blue - Green

Orange - Yellow

photo by Joe Bernado for Bridget Beari Designs

Blue - Purple

Using analogous colors gives you that balanced feeling within a room. The colors are more serene and soothing.

Tip:

I recently bought a cast iron skillet but I had know idea how to clean. I washed it like a regular pot the first time and my friend who cooks a lot had a fit. She said I was ruining the cured surface. She gave me the secret and Martha Stewart also tells us how:

Take course salt and rub the bottom of the pan to remove any food. Rinse lightly and pat dry. This keeps all the pan cured for the next cooking session.

Happy Painting…

and Cleaning for Spring!

Bridget Beari Color Rule #23 - Get Complementary!

March 22, 2020 by Susan Jamieson in Bridget Beari Color Rules

Bridget Beari Color Rule #23

Complementary colors are 2 colors on the color wheel that when mixed in the proper proportions produce a neutral color like grey or black.

Red = Green

Blue = Orange

Yellow = Violet

If you are looking for some pop, these can create interesting color choices in interior space.

How about Farrow & Ball 's

Calluna #270

or Farrow & Ball's

Lulworth Blue #89

Design by Janie Molster, floor by Sunny Goode from Southern Accents

or a Bridget Beari Colors

Beasie No. 33

Tip:

I found this chart on Pinterest. I'm at obsessed with china but I didn't even know that you set the table different at different meal times. I guess my mother only taught me the formal settings.

Happy Painting….

Bridget Beari Color Rule #21 - Tread Lightly With Wood Trim

October 06, 2019 by Susan Jamieson in Bridget Beari Color Rules

Bridget Beari Color Rule #21

Wall colors are the hardest to pick with wood trim. You have to be extra aware of what tones are in the wood and how they change the color of the paint you put next to them.

One of the main pitfalls I see is homeowners trying to paint yellow walls next to wood trim that has green in it. It will change your wall color immediately.

Here are some rooms that do it right!

Just enough grey green in that beam to pull off that wall color.

Furniture ad for Bassett Furniture

Picking up the creamy white to accent the colors in the weathered wood.

Beautiful wood beams in this Diane Keaton house. Stucco walls in a grey/white wash highlights the red in the beams with out fighting it.

Wood beams and wood cabinets have a ton of orange and yellow in them. The green walls softens the overall mood without using white walls. Green can be really tricky. It can look sick with the yellow of the beams. It is working here but tread lightly!

Another green that might have worked better would be:

Bridget Beari Colors

Verdi No. 35
It has more grey in it than yellow.

Tip:

Did you know you can fix scratches on furniture with a walnut? Rub the raw walnut on the scratch and it will eliminate the scratch. Especially great for the legs of tables where the vacuum always seems to reek havoc!