Color Consultations

So many shades to choose from. What is the feeling you want in the space?

Homes & Workplaces. Interiors & Exteriors. On-site, long distance, and via Zoom.

Beauty is deeply nourishing. Color preferences are personal and powerful, and profoundly affect our sense of well-being.

Mayfield brings her artist eye and sensibility into clients’ homes and workplaces to create harmony and visual delight, in accordance with clients’ desires. She works with home owners, apartment dwellers, landlords, architects, professional interior designers and decorators who want a colorist’s sensibility on board, on hand, and on deck.

Mayfield began her color consultancy with a two-year stint working with a major paint company in 2015. Since then she has become an independent colorist, working with the color palettes of Benjamin Moore, Farrow & Ball, Sherwin Williams, Magnolia and others.

She has successfully completed more than 850 projects in the Greater Philadelphia area, as well as in Vermont, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Seattle, Santa Fe, San Francisco, and in Florida, South Jersey, and Alaska.

See a dozen projects on HOUZZ.

On Instagram, see her commentary videos Artist in a Car Giving Unsolicited Advice.

Barbara works on homes and workplaces modest and grand: rowhomes, free-standing singles, twins, townhouses, mansions, historic homes, Victorians, Dutch colonials, Tudors, split-levels, condominiums, apartments, ranch houses, offices, bars, university buildings, adobe casitas, and cabins in cities, suburbs, the countryside, in the mountains and by the sea. Exteriors need color, too. Mayfield works with structures of brick, stone, stucco, vinyl, clapboard, adobe and wood….

Scroll down to schedule a 15-minute complimentary phone call to chat it up about your project. Weekday mornings between 8 and 9, or afternoons between 4 and 5:30. We are in the Eastern Time Zone. After we talk, you’ll receive a PDF with details and cost information.

THE PROCESS: Color is powerful and affects us deeply. Everyone and every space requires beauty. No project is too small or too large, and no home is too modest or too grand for a color consultation.

Finding the right color to beautify and harmonize a room is an Art and a Science, and takes some time. One hour is usually enough consult time for one room. The cost of a color consultation will most likely be the smallest part of your painting budget. Mayfield ensures the color combinations are aesthetically strong, that clients love the colors chosen, and that all color works together beautifully. The goal is harmonious color flow from room to room, and to have each space be a place you enjoy being in.

CLIENT PREP: Do nothing except think about how you want your place to feel. Cozy? Airy? Elegant, formal, casual, classic, outrageous, calm, relaxing, exciting, playful, bright, cave-like, stark, edgy, soft, comfy, quirky, traditional, conservative…..???

If there is an ideal vision for the spaces, great. If not, it will become clear during the consult. Ask yourself: are you open to color suggestions you may not have considered yet?

It’s important to choose a time and day when everyone who has input into the color choices can be at the consult. There’s no predicting the time needed. Each project is unique. Always leave a 2 to 3-hour window for a color consult. If everything is complete sooner, that’s fine. Let Barbara know if you have a strict budget.

During a consult, we consider and choose color for walls, woodwork, doors and ceilings. For exterior projects, color for all surfaces is chosen – the body of the structure, windows, trim, and doors.

What do clients say about the color consultation experience? Visit the Accolades page.

Art Placement

Is everything is painted and furnishings are in place? Or are you ready to freshen up your place with a re-hang and rearrange of wall decor? Let’s position and hang your paintings, prints, photos and/or objects in the most beautiful and aesthetically pleasing way.

In some instances, we re-hang on the spot. Other times, we mark the spot and have a your craftsperson install the artwork/sculpture/photograph/object.

Images of My Clients’ “Afters”—–

We went with a royal blue for the chimney, inside and out. — We went with a rich blue chimney, inside and out.

The red floor. — The red floor in a Santa Fe casa.

Farrow & Ball in this sunroom. — A rich neutral with a subtle purple-undertone for this sunroom.

This family craved color. — This family craved bright color.

In this room, Ceiling White was — A handsome clay color for a living room.

Mayfield has brought color to more than 850 projects in the Philadelphia area and beyond: sitting rooms in Drexel Hill, Mainline mansions, South Philly row houses, West Philly Victorians, sprawling ranches and split levels, 300-year old historic houses, Dutch Colonials, a NYC penthouse, Brooklyn row houses, new construction, an artist’s New Hampshire rustic live/work studio, the office of a university dean, the exteriors of mansions purchased by an expanding university, Villanova carriage houses, the varied houses of Havertown, the vast interiors of Mt. Airy’s stone glories, seashore vacation homes, getaways in Vermont, Seattle and northern California, condos, apartments, rental houses, a metaphysical church sanctuary, and more than one Sears Roebuck kit house.

Reach out for more information, talk about your project, and book a consult.

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