Barbara Clare Color Design

Barbara Clare designed three rooms in our four floor townhouse: two bedroom spaces and a large office in a loft. We were blown away by her insights and her suggestions. She transformed our living space in ways that delight us and that we would never have thought of on our own. It's as if Barbara knew us better than we knew ourselves because her ideas fit our needs and our lifestyle perfectly. The result is the best use of the space. Barbara first recommended that we make a large room that had no clear focus into a guest room and that we make what had formerly been a very small guest room into a lovely, peaceful sitting room. The result is space that is put to much better use. We have a guest room that is roomy and comfortable for our guests and a sitting room that we enjoy each day. Barbara selected a vibrant sky blue paint for the sitting room that makes the room warm and inviting. Particularly when the morning sun lights up the beautiful blue walls, we are grateful for Barbara's exquisite taste. Barbara also completely changed the functionality of our office space by suggesting a dramatic change in the design of the room and recommending new and inexpensive furniture that made the new design work. Her goal was to make the office space both more organized and more conducive to our creativity, and that is exactly what has happened. We are so grateful to Barbara for all that she has done to delight our eyes and improve our lives!!!

Barbara helped us pick out wall colors for the interior of our home as well as colors for the exterior paint. She came with 8" X 10" paint color swatches. I've never seen those before! Everybody knows those tiny little color samples from paint stores. They are hardly any help. The big swatches are amazingly effective for gauging the color. Barbara spent hours with us and listened carefully to our thoughts, desires, dislikes. She asked questions that I would have never thought of and presented us with color options that I also would have never thought of. The end result of Barbara's guidance and expertise is a home full of color that expresses who we are and flows beautifully from one end of the house to the other. As for the exterior color, Barbara suggested colors for us that help our house blend into the landscape with just the right pop of color accent. We get rave reviews from all of our friends about our colors. I would highly recommend Barbara. She's a delight to work with and she makes choosing colors a fun adventure.

Barbara Clare/Chroma 7 helped me choose wall colors for my new home, plus kitchen cabinet color and finish, counter material and pattern and floor coverings for two bathrooms, kitchen, den, two bedrooms and laundry room. She helped me coordinate my furniture in the new rooms and find the most functional and attractive way of displaying my belongings. Ms. Clare also helped me select new furniture to fit with my older furniture in the new setting and fill in where new items were needed. Ms. Clare came to my house and helped move furniture, especially couches and end tables and chests to different locations in the living room and dining room. That helped us decide where to place furniture and where new furniture was needed. After this was finished, she helped me hang my art. She had good ideas of where to place my longtime favorites. Barbara also directed me to a framer and an upholsterer that were outstanding in the quality of their work. She is thoroughly professional, has a very good eye for proportion, color and design. She is very easy to work with and responded to my questions quickly by phone and email. My recent move has been a good experience as I found that Barbara Clare helped me establish a lovely new home by combining my traditional and Asian furniture with new additions that add a more contemporary look. My initial goal was to achieve a contemporary and less Asian setting and this was the end result. I recommend her work highly.