Let's Talk (paint) Color

Feb 26 2025 29 ep. 34 mins

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Color is the foundation of great interior design. It can settle a building into its landscape. It can make an unattractive structural detail just disappear and it can set or change the mood in a room, instantly. Host Amy Krane, Architectural Color Consultant at Amy Krane Color, amykranecolor.com is an award winning paint color expert. In each episode she'll introduce you to a master of color whose expertise in their respective field will inspire and enlighten you about the power of color for our built environment.

In Episodes 1 -20 Architectural Color Experts Amy Krane & Amy Woolf discuss how to choose color for your home or business, interior and exterior in a rousing conversation which spans all aspects of color in architectural design.

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The Colors of Olana

Feb 26 2025 53 mins

If you've never walked into an interior which caused your jaw to drop then you haven't witnessed the overwhelming effect a built environment can have. There are few of these places extant and even fewer here in the United States. I'm lucky to live just a few miles from one - the hilltop home of the Hudson River School painter Frederic Church, Olana. Perched on a mountaintop overloo

2025 Color & Design Trends

Dec 14 2024 61 mins

We welcome back former co-host Amy Woolf to discuss the 2025 Colors of the Year and other design trends percolating right now. Which interior colors are the rage, what exterior paint colors are the most popular and what's new in furnishings and decor.

Alkemis Paint

Nov 04 2024 35 mins

Imagine the tagline for a new paint company "Paint your walls with rock instead of plastic." If that doesn't pique your interest I don't know what would. Meet Maya Crowne and Price Latimer, the entrepreneurs who conceived of a safe, plastic free interior house paint made from natural materials with minerals for pigmentation. It's a fascinating story about two women who never dreame

Talking Shop with Eve Ashcraft

Aug 07 2024 53 mins

Think about the skills needed to create a paint color which matches a cat's fur coat. Now think about those needed to transform the look of a big city transit hub. That describes the color chops of Architectural Color Consultant, Eve Ashcraft. She came to NYC after attending RISD and with her unique color skills became the creator of Martha Stewart's original paint line as well as

Andrea Magno at Benjamin Moore

May 31 2024 36 mins

What do Barbra Streisand, The LA Dodgers and Larry David have in common with one of America's most revered companies? Did you guess? They were all born in Brooklyn! In 1883 The Moore Brothers released their first coatings product and the paint world hasn't been the same since. Benjamin Moore's products and colors are perceived as the pinnacle of good taste and quality. Their color

Uncommon Kitchens with Sophie Donelson

Apr 18 2024 52 mins

While this episode began as an interview based on a book about kitchens, it became something much more - A treatise about how we live in our homes, how to make a kitchen your own in ways which acknowledge who you are, how you live and what you love. Sophie Donelson is a former Editor-in- Chief of House Beautiful Magazine. She is a design journalist, speaker, and strategist whose wo

Mind the Gap

Mar 20 2024 37 mins

Think about jazz, communism, Dracula and wallpaper. Any commonalities? Tune into this episode to hear how they all converge. My guest is Stefan Ormenisan, the founder and creative director of one of the most unique lifestyle brands, Mind the Gap. Conceived in Transylvania and sold all over the world, MTG offers wallpapers and textile patterns spun from tales of folklore and global

Color for Museum Walls

Feb 07 2024 36 mins

Ever walk into an art museum and find yourself just as mesmerized and transported by the color of the exhibition walls as you were by the art? Well, that wouldn't have been the ultimate goal of the exhibit designers but it does speak to the power of wall paint color, even in a museum setting. My guest in this episode is Kathleen Morris, the Director of Collections and Exhibitions a

The Hidden Dimensions of Color

Dec 15 2023 21 mins

Think there's nothing more to a color than whether it's blue, red or green? If so, hold onto your hat. On this, the first episode of our new interview based format, Architectural Color Consultant Amy Krane introduces our listeners to trained Color Consultant and Interior Designer, Ellen Divers, who has spent the better part of the last decade studying how humans perceive color. Her

Choosing Color for Commercial Interiors: Retail, Office and Health Care

Oct 02 2023 31 mins

There are so many functional and aesthetic factors to consider when designing color for non-residential interiors. Your color choices must support a range of branding, comfort, productivity, and /or way finding goals, to name a few. Tens, hundreds or thousands of people may be users of this space and the color decision makers can be a plurality of people. Done well you can soothe a