{"id":2485,"date":"2011-08-02T13:29:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T06:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/?p=2485"},"modified":"2011-08-02T13:44:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T06:44:04","slug":"houzz-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/2011\/08\/houzz-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Color Sizzle and Houzz"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"\"<\/a> While most of the country was scorching, Kelly Porter posted some cool down turquoise and green color schemes. Porter, an interior designer, color consultant and columnist for Sherwin Williams, is a regular contributor to Houzz.com.\u00a0Porter’s blog,\u00a0Color Sizzle<\/a>, is a great source of ideas for color combinations but the real fun is at Houzz.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post called Houzz ” the Flickr of design idea sites. \u00a0With over 150,000 photos to choose from, you can create your own “ideabook” to save the images that inspire you. \u00a0 I choose by colors, not by style. I think of it as my color inspiration file in the form of interior design photos.<\/p>\n

When I was still in grade school my aunt gave me a stack of Architectural Digests. I spent the whole weekend cutting out the photos I loved and putting them in file folders. I still have the files somewhere. I used to ask my architectural clients to do the same – to clip photos from magazines to get an idea of what they liked. No more. Now I can just send them to Houzz.<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s Porter’s column for Houzz on greens. After checking it out, head to Houzz and have fun “clipping.”<\/p>\n

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