Your Color Diva

I would like to thank Your Color Diva Shoshanah for helping me with my outdoor projects this year. She made my home improvement decisions easier and more manageable. We decided to have our house sandblasted, stuccoed, and eaves trimmed and painted. We even painted and trimmed our shed. We didn't stop there, we even had Shoshanah help with choosing a stain color for our new gate and even a new awning. Shoshanah helped pick out colors that really complemented our home. She is easy to work with and has a great sense of design. Our neighbors really like what we have done to our home.

My Color Diva should be Your Color Diva too. Here's why. I wanted to remodel the kitchen this past summer. Shoshanah worked with me to design a color palette unique to my tastes. We chose a sumptuous onyx and marble backsplash tile. There were so many beautiful shades in the tile from amber to cream. Add to the design puzzle that I wanted blue cabinets and wood floors. Now I consider myself to have a pretty good eye for color but with so many shades and elements to consider? I might have been in a quandary. I began to dry my tears watching Shoshanah work. It was like magic. She homed in on the color range for accent walls to best bring out the tile. Almost effortlessly, she refined the color choices with specific color samples. The accent wall color was very important because it anchored the many colors in the tile and complimented the blue cabinet color we chose. There were other elements expertly pulled into the design scheme too. There had to be neutral color space. There was "warm" white for the ceiling and window frames. Even tile grout colors were sampled and chosen. No design element was left out. All created a lovely harmony. And I'm so happy just to BE in my kitchen now. Glad I sought this expert help.

I have worked with Shoshanah on several different projects over the last few years. Most recently she helped me select colors for the exterior of my house. I have a lot of brick, and she was able to identify exact shades that complement it. She is responsive and a pleasure to work with. Shoshanah is truly a color expert!

Fabulous experience! My color diva, Shoshanna, is knowledgeable and brings ideas that I had not thought of. She helped me select colors for the exterior of my house as well as provided painter recommendations. I am very pleased with the result. Painter was fantastic and am loving the color scheme. Very reasonable consulting fee and considering the cost of painting the exterior of a house, it was a wise step in the process. Shoshanna is fun and easy to work with!

The color diva was a life saver for me, I can’t make a good decorating decision to save me. I bought a new couch (took me 8 years to pick one) and knew if I ever was going to paint I needed help. Sue showed up and within 1 hour had picked a beautiful color that goes with my couch perfectly. I used her again to pick a frame and matting for some artwork I had and it blends into my living room beautifully. She is professional, friendly and awesome. I will use her again!

The Color Diva worked with me on two separate projects. The first involved finding a specific shade of blue exterior which matched that of another house. She found the shade before arriving at my home and I was just amazed. I had been quite anxious to find the right shade and she was great in calming me down. Then she found the correct shade of white to match the white of my new windows. I have gotten many compliments about the colors of my home. In short, she did an excellent job. Later, I asked her once again for help in matching a piece of plaster, and for assistance in getting a stain for the interior Douglas fir trim. Once again, she was very helpful. She is knowledgeable, is able to help her client (me) come to decisions with which I am very happy, is flexible in her work schedule, and her prices are quite reasonable. She is just a joy to work with and I am very happy to have worked with her.

This is the fourth time I have hired the company to do color work for painting the exterior of buildings.

Decorating and renovation can be stressful, I am so glad to have been referred to Shoshanah for assistance. She was so calm and patient, what a great start! Her guidance was very helpful not only with color selection but so many other great decorating suggestions. Thank you Shoshanah!

Shoshanah Siegel has assisted me several times in the past three years. I first contacted her when I agreed to include my home on a tour of historical houses, and I knew my bedroom needed a new paint color. Selecting the “right” color has always been a challenge for me. Enter Shoshanah Siegel, the Color Diva. Her knowledge about color is invaluable, and she made finding the right shade of blue a relatively simple process. She is easy to talk to, and she listens to what you are hoping to achieve. After the painting was successfully completed, Shoshanah returned to stage my home for the tour, and my interiors looked wonderful. She has an eye for placing things just the right way to bring a room to life. Even better, she was able to use what I already owned as she “went shopping” in my cupboards. She rearranged my art work, too, and the only item, I purchased was a new frame for one of my paintings. This year, when I needed to repaint the exterior of my craftsman bungalow, the first thing I did was call Shoshanah for her color expertise, and her selections were spot-on. She made a daunting task doable, and I have received many compliments on the colors selected. It is truly a pleasure to work with Shoshanah, and I no longer have any anxiety when I need to have painting done because she makes the process a pleasant one.

Shoshana has provided me advice on almost everything in my home. After moving back into our house, after four years as a rental, it needed a lot of updating. The first decision was what colors to paint the exterior. It had been the same beige with white trim for 25 years. She recommended a palette of great colors which I love. For the interior she recommended some subtle changes in color after the move in (it had recently been painted neutral for the rental). She recommended painting the back wall of several white bookshelves in the living room a different color and also changed the color over the mantle. It looks fantastic! With the bookshelves painted it was time to decorate with all the books and tchotchkes that had been packed away. One of the things I love about Shoshana is that she first “shops” your existing belongings to decorate your home. A few things were consigned to the donate box, but we were definitely able to use most of my belongings. The previous bookshelf décor was heavy on books and photos of the family. We consolidated the family photos and removed some of my “décor” books. We did need to make a couple trips for additional purchases to add some “pops of color”. In addition to decorating my shelves (and tabletops) she also hung my wall pictures and placed all my existing furniture throughout the house. Again she “shopped” my existing furniture and pictures first. Only one piece of furniture ended up on Next Door. She also made suggestions on future furniture pieces/art work that would improve the room. When it was time to replace the existing rugs in the living room (my choice to replace) we went shopping together. She chose two complementary area rugs that look great and tie the whole room together. And also picked an area rug for my son’s bedroom. It turns out it was only a little more to buy a new one than clean the old one. I am still working on the kitchen remodel where Shoshana advised me on many of the key decisions. We went to the tile store where we made selections for the new countertop and backsplash. She also helped me evaluate my cabinet options. The existing cabinets are the oak popular 25 years ago. She made suggestions for the three options I was considering—painting all the existing cabinets, painting the cabinet bases but replacing the fronts with new white shaker fronts, or buying all new cabinets. On our tile trip we stopped at a couple of cabinet stores. The install of the new cabinets pushed that option $8,000-$10,000 higher than the other options, and out of my budget. Other decisions she was involved with were drapes, lighting, and replacing bathroom fixtures. I would strongly recommend Shoshana for assistance in any decision-making you need to make in either remodeling or redecorating your home. You’ll be happy with the results—I was!

This was the second time I've hired Shoshanah to help me with my colors. She helped me bring my entire family room colors together and I get so many compliments on it and now I love spending time in there. She made the process so much easier and took the stress away from trying to figure out how it would look afterwards from the room color to the floors. . The last project she helped me with was my house exterior colors and I'm still very happy with the choices we made. I'll definitely use her again.

My husband and I are remodeling our kitchen, family room, office and bathroom. Shoshanah has helped tremendously with our choice of paint colors, countertops, tile, flooring and lighting. She gave us some excellent recommendations for product sources and even accompanied us to her vendor for tile and countertops where she helped with our selections. Shoshanah is knowledgeable, professional and a joy to work with. We will again be contacting her when we remodel our other bathroom and select new paint colors for our livingroom and bedrooms.