About: Diana Hathaway Timmons

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http://www.keepyourzen.com

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Diana Hathaway Timmons - Diana is an interior designer specializing in color consulting, web-based interior design, and design coaching. She is the author of "Sell Your Home Without Losing Your Zen", and has written numerous articles on interior design and real estate. Diana is passionate about paint color, and would paint every room in her house a different color, if she could get away with it. See her color combinations on MyPerfectColor.com.

Posts by Diana Hathaway Timmons:

• Color My (Fluorescent) World.
  

  In anticipation of the switch from incandescent light bulbs, to compact florescent bulbs (CFL), questions have been circulating about how this will affect paint colors, and the design industry. You don’t need to be a lighting or color professional to notice that there is a difference between the two bulbs. With the advances [...]

  10 Feb 2010 in house painting& paint colors
  
  
• The Color of Zen
  

  When the day is going wrong, when work goes on too long, there’s nothing we want more than to be in our home. This is the mantra of millions of us who want to leave the stress outside when we step in through our front door.
  In my work as a designer and color consultant, my [...]

  23 Oct 2009 in paint colors
  
  
• How I Tackled Seasonal Decorating.
  

  I toyed with an alternate title for this post — something like: “Am I really supposed to buy a new sofa every four months?” You know, it would appear that every few months design magazines, and retailers, present a new seasonal palette complete with a brand new batch of colors, furniture, and [...]

  30 Jul 2009 in paint colors
  
  
• Color it Sold!
  

  Finding the right paint color to get from For Sale to Sold!
  Conventional wisdom dictated for years that when you sell your home, the first thing you need to do is paint all the walls white. I sold a home in California several years ago, and the first Realtor that wanted my listing told me [...]

  01 Apr 2009 in paint colors
  
  
• My Jupiter is in Leo, But My Walls Are Still white.
  

  Often, when I’m called in to help with choosing color for interiors, my clients have a good idea of what they want and don’t want.  Stacks of paint samples are piled around the room, fabric samples stacked on a counter, and advertisements are ripped from  home magazines. Sometimes, existing pieces of art or furniture dictate [...]

  30 Jan 2009 in paint colors
  
  
• Creating Beautiful Color Schemes is Just Desserts.
  

  I love dessert!  Cakes, cupcakes, brownies, pies, cobblers, you name it — I love them all.  I love dessert almost as much as I love paint. As I savored the orange sponge cake with strawberry filling that I’d baked this afternoon, I thought about the colors and textures of desserts, and wondered why can’t we [...]

  09 Dec 2008 in paint colors
  
  
• Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and the Perfect Beige
  

  What do they all have in common? All neutral colors? No. I think Nessie is probably a seaweed green which would make her a warm color.  Actually, they’re all figments of our imagination.
  When I get that initial call for a color consultation, somewhere inside of me a little voice cries when I hear a request to [...]

  12 Nov 2008 in paint colors