Color Me Here

Color me here

Creating your sanctuary, Creating your sanctuary,

an energetic guide to color selection an energetic guide to color selection

for your home or businessfor your home or business

Corey Hitchcock, M.F.A, Architectural Colorist

A client’s request:“I have a hectic work pace…I want to

feel my adrenals calm down the moment I open my front door.”

• Color gives you permission to change your surroundings for health and well being.

• Discover the subtle but powerful relationship you have with your environment.

• Stepping away from mental naming opens the door to an experience of expansive, surrounding color, dedicated to helping you rest, work, cook, entertain, play and sleep.

Corey Hitchcock MFA, Architectural Colorist livewithcolor.com

• Color and change are complimentary and often a need to change the colors that surround you has been suggested on a subtle-body level by some deep change already underway

• A need to create a personal sanctuary usually comes on the heels of some radical shift or pause in life’s hectic pace - or in recognizing the need for one!

• Perhaps you have moved to a new location, or are recovering from an illness, have begun a new spiritual practice, your children have left home for college, or you are beginning a new phase of your career.

• Beneath all that you DO, is how you FEEL, dream, play, rest, eat, love, contemplate, meditate and relate. Intuitive Color will support you at this deeper level by setting the tone for harmony in those soulful activities.


Introducing some Color Magic beginning: inside, why ‘white is….. not right.’


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Rich color actually expands a room spatially. This is true even in a very small room. This soothing affect runs contrary to the generally held opinion that rich color will create a smaller or more restrictive sense of space.

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Live with Color Magic 1: Rich, interior color

Notice the inviting ‘conversation’ between the colors of furnishings, artwork, walls and trim in this lovely living room above, and in contrast………..


…And here, notice the feeling of huddled separation created by the isolating white in this living room.


Ceiling color helps hold a room spatially.

In a very small bathroom, for example, a colored ceiling will add space and a feeling of height vs. the radical ‘color stop’ a white ceiling creates.

Many off-white or related midrange colors can also help soothe this transition.

Color Myth 2: Ceilings must be kept white or I will feel claustrophobic!

Live with Color MAGIC 2:


Ceiling solution: rich warm hue in entry


Ceiling solution: full color in playroom


Ceiling solution:Stepped color


Live with Color Magic 3: When to accent…..

• Look to the Architectural features for flow and to help establish color-break points in your overall scheme.

• Don’t accent a wall with color simply because you can. Think about what the color would accomplish in your room, and how accenting would help or hinder the overall affects of room size, shape, lighting of the room, and the kind of ambiance you wish to create.


Live with Color MAGIC: Successful accenting: above picture rails


A professional massage studio

A colorful bathroom

Live with Color MAGIC: Successful accenting, connecting rooms


Fireplace element in brown, runs through to dining area. Deep olive LR wall connects living room to blue walls in dining area.

Live with Color Magic 4: Color Myth: Cabinets and trim must all be painted the same color.

Color MAGIC:Cabinets can become beautiful accents with rich color.


Live with Color MAGIC:Banks of kitchen cabinets become

accentswith a sensitively applied palette


Interior gallery


Four complimentary yellow hues:

1. Ceiling to picture rail:

Rich sandy yellow

2. Above picture rail in: Deep Ochre

3 .Below picture rail again a: Warm mid-value yellow

4. Trim - shelves, baseboards, box beams: Palest of four yellows

The extra attention to architectural detailing makes this once, all-white dining room, shine with warmth and harmony.

The Spielman Home: innovative, natural hues create a sophisticated palette for an urban family

home, Piedmont, CA


Carman Home, Pleasanton Color connects the spacious architecture of contemporary common areas to the more intimate rooms upstairs.


The Carman Home, continued


Azari home and Winery, Petaluma


The Ehee living room in Piedmont, Before: All white, and after with color. Family room also changed from white to warm burnt pumpkin color.


Harmon Street Commons: an innovative collaboration of bold color with new and old structures to form a naturally related four-plex plus mini-community in North Berkeley


Rogers Home, San Rafael: Color adds depth and warmth to a classic Eichler design, family & living rooms

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after


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Berryman Street, Craftsman, Berkeley. Proof that you need not confine yourself to dull color or dark wood in older home styles, especially if the woodwork is damaged. Painted trim shows off the wood floors and enlivens the original design.


Gottfried Green Build, Berkeley

Another Classic 1910 Berkeley Craftsman home remodeled and contemporized with an innovative palette that suited owners desires for a calming, contained family sanctuary


Beginning: outside, residential

Live with Color Exterior Magic


and after..Azari Home and Winery, PetalumaLimestone integral color, custom mixed and applied in five coats


Live with Color Exterior Magic 2: Painted shingles refresh a classic look, while eaves hold bold new color


Live with Color Exterior Magic 3


Noe Valley bungalow color facelift

Bold color to match contemporary condominium design

Live with Color Exterior: Commercial

A commercial artists’ cooperative contemporizes with whimsical accents on drainage piping


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Cucina Paradiso, Petaluma


Two views, two entries, one historic district restaurant

Live with Color MAGIC at theFarm Bakery Café, Aptos CA


The farm Bakery Café a popular gahtering place for great food and conversation in Aptos. Owners wanted to update their one color interior scheme to reflect their folk ark and a more playful atmosphere. They also had a very tight painting schedule because they needed to remain open as many days as possible during the transition. Great success!

Corey, at Livewithcolor.com will help you discover innovative, attuned COLORS to enhance the places and spaces you live, work, dream and play in.


707.781.6928 or [email protected]

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