Hooray for Rachel
My blogging buddy, Rachel Perls, was featured prominently in today’s Washington Post home section. She and I started blogging at about the same time. And she lives in my home town of Baltimore. Plus, we both love working with and talking about color.
Here’s an excerpt of the article featuring Rachel (right). To read the rest, and explore the issue, click on this link.
In the past year, a few design blogs that focus heavily on paint and color have been started. Paint is universally considered one of the easiest, quickest and cheapest ways to transform a room. But it can also be the most difficult, with consumers overwhelmed by choices and hungry for advice. This is where the Internet comes in.Blogs are “such an easy way for people to get hold of information. They don’t have to have stacks of magazines and books. I really thought there was a gap that needed to be filled,” says Rachel Perls, 33, of Baltimore. A former pet portraitist who attended seminars at the International Association of Color Consultants and now advises residential and commercial clients, Perls started her blog, hue, more than a year ago.
