<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d4bd1d1f-c962-42c5-8f7a-61593c515fc5/570E0439-65CC-4922-9257-30C4DA1884E4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.oldhousejournal.com/living_life_in_colors/magazine/1522" href="http://www.oldhousejournal.com/living_life_in_colors/magazine/1522" style="font-size: 11px;">www.oldhousejournal.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.oldhousejournal.com/living_life_in_colors/magazine/1522"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.oldhousejournal.com/img/8A58DF4C-1BA9-476E-B922-14FA60C3F908" alt="Late Victorian Italiante" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.oldhousejournal.com/living_life_in_colors/magazine/1522"><SPAN class="mediumTitle2">Living Life in Colors: Paint Colors for Historic Homes</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.oldhousejournal.com/living_life_in_colors/magazine/1522"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD>I’ll never forget the lady who faced the great wall of color chips in her home center for the first time and wailed, “Oh my gosh! Where do I begin?” She was stymied by sensory overload, a condition I call “color intimidation.” I’m convinced that most Americans aren’t afraid of colors; they’re discouraged by the process of selecting a personally pleasing body color and appropriate contrasting colors for trim and accents. </TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.oldhousejournal.com/living_life_in_colors/magazine/1522"><DIV> My general sense of appropriate light reflectance values for exterior colors came in handy when I isolated 60 exterior colors in <EM>The Painter’s Hand-Book</EM>, an 1887 book written by the secretary of The Master House Painters’ Association (a trade-organization ancestor of today’s Painting and Decorating Contractors of America). The book’s 116 chromo-lithographed color samples didn’t distinguish exterior and interior colors, because Victorian master painters would have known the difference. </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/570E0439-65CC-4922-9257-30C4DA1884E4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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