I truly love working with homeowners and helping them create a place to live that exceeds what they thought was possible.
Recently, I met with a new client, Andy, in Los Angeles who had chosen the colors himself for the exterior of his Los Angeles Spanish style home then hired contractors to do the work. They did a brilliant job painting.
Sadly, every time he came home, he was disappointed. The result wasn’t the cozy, inviting, cheerful, classic Spanish he had hoped for but the color combination resulted in a depressing vibe. He was frustrated that he had spent money and effort trying to improve his lovely home and found the outcome to be so wrong.
After a few months of living with the results, Andy did a search on Yelp and found my listing and called me for a consultation.
The result is fabulous, but even more touching was his review on Yelp about his experience and my services. It made made me so happy that I had turned a bad situation around for him and helped him get the look he was after.
Here is his wonderful review by Andy S. from Yelp posted August 2, 2020:
Choosing paint color is NOT my strong suit. After 17 years in my home, I finally had the nerve to have the exterior painted this past March. After it was all done (bummer alert) I HATED the colors I chose. It turned out dark, drab and depressing -- not exactly the vibe I was going for. After a couple of months, I realized that I couldn't live with it, so I did a quick Google search for a local color consultant. Luckily I found Nathalie Tierce. I called her right away -- and in a bizarre twist of fate, we realized that she had done the color consulting for the house directly across the street from me (which I LOVE). It was meant to be! She came out to see me a few days later (with mask and proper social distancing, of course). Let me just say that she did NOT disappoint.
Nathalie is billed as a color consultant, but I would swear she's more of a color PSYCHIC. It sounds weird (yeah, I know), but it's almost as if the house communicates with her. She took one look at my place and instantly told me that the color I had chosen for the trim was a really "handsome" color -- but that the dark color I had chosen for the stucco was dragging the whole house down. She was certain that I could keep the existing trim color and we could just pick a new color for the stucco that would be a better complement. That scenario would also be far less labor intensive...and CHEAPER. I was ALL for that!
I might mention that Nathalie not only knows color, but she also has a downright scientific understanding of how light, shade, sun direction and landscaping AFFECT that color. Because my house faces North and never gets direct sunlight on the front, she immediately started looking at lighter/brighter options that would give my house a much needed "lift" (as she described). After deciding on two possible candidates and having me do the proper tests, we were in total agreement about which color worked best. Fast-forward a week later and my painters already had the new color up. What a difference (and what a relief)! It's GORGEOUS! Thank you, Nathalie!
And after just a couple of days, I soon came to realize that the new lighter/brighter stucco color brought with it a huge and unexpected extra added bonus. The interior of my house is now a full 5 to 7 degrees COOLER. No lie! My A/C barely even needs to kick on now. I never would've believed the exterior color could make THAT much of a difference on the inside. It's been life-altering for me -- and The DWP savings alone will far and away make up for the expense of repainting.
So, to recap: If you're getting ready to paint your house and are feeling a little (or a lot) overwhelmed, please don't be a dumb-a$# like me and waste a lot of time, energy and cash on avoidable mistakes. Call Nathalie FIRST and then relax and have a cocktail. You'll be SO glad you did. I know I am. :-)
