AboutCyndie Stefanik Expertise Co-Developer/author of the patent pending "Color with No Regrets" Selection System. Just recently her Color Program was featured in Faux Effects World Magazine and a separate featured article for her virtual consultations in House Trends Magazine. Her Color with No Regrets online video Color Class is the first to earn IACET Certification with the Society of Decorating Professionals. Her specialty is the $199 whole house virtual consultation which is especially popular for new construction and remodeling projects all over the country. As a retired award winning decorative artist, she now donates her services on a regular basis to the Make a Wish Foundation.
Experience I began as a decorative painter/artist 15 years ago. My work has appeared in magazines from award winning designer show houses in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Architectural Digest. Most recently I have spent the last 3 years creating, developing and patenting a numerical color selection system that takes the subjective nature out of color. Since it is numerically based, color can be chosen quickly and accurately. For the past year, I have conducted training seminars for the "Color with No Regrets" System to decorating professionals around the United States. My background in decorative painting/art, has given me real life experience of how color works but more importantly why it works based on sound color principles. I am also an authorized Aqua Finishing Solutions Distributor and a certified training instructor for the Society of Decorating Professionals.
Organizations The Society of Decorating Professionals
Publications Recent articles and showcase projects appear in Faux Effects World Magazine, House Trends Magazine, WJET-TV for decorative painting set design, as well as local publications in Western Pennsylvania such as Today's Home. I am a regular guest on Good Morning Erie, WJET-TV, an ABC affliate as the Princess of Paint, where I provide decorating, painting techniques and problem solving for viewers.
Question We are redoing our master bedroom. We just finished scraping all the popcorn off and we are getting ready to re-texture the ceiling. The room is a 16.5 X 13.5 rectangle. One end of the room is 8' tall and the other end of the room is 11.5' tall. The only place for the bed to go is on the 8' wall, leaving a tall dresser to go on the 11.5' wall, which is all fine. The problem comes in when trying to pick the paint. The only windows we have in the room is a french door going out to a balcony on the 16.5' wall with the double entry door on the other 16.5' wall. The new bed quilt is mostly dark brown with some kind of sea foam greenish blue color accenting the brown. I was really hopping to put some chocolate brown paint in the room along with the sea foam color is it possible to do both? If I put the chocolate brown color on the headboard wall (headboard is a cloth med tan color) that end of the room will look like a dark tunnel I think. what colors and where should they go?
Thank you, Bethany
Answer Hi .
If you're apprehensive about using the brown on the walls, how about using greenish color, similar to the color in the bedding on all four walls and possibly a tan on the ceiling. Then since your bed will have brown, you can use more brown as accents such as drapery treatments for your balcony wall. Even if you use a solid brown drape that is banded with the green (kind of like a horizontal stripe) to get your color story.
If you decide to use 2 colors in the room, the rule of thumb is to paint 3 walls the same with 1 accent wall. Again, if you do this on the balcony wall, then use the drapery treatment again to pull the 2 colors together.
I hope this helps you. Let me know if you need anything else, I am happy to help you.
Cyndie Stefanik
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