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The lit faux travertine alcove with its wall clock, seen from the hall under a black scrolled chandelier, the walls a soft, mottled green
Lit alcove in faux travertine

A color story for your whole home

Every surface, every room, in the light you live in. We find your colors, or create them.

Plan my color story Text us a photo of the color you love

Talk with Greg or Gabriel now, until 10 p.m. Text us any time. Greg or Gabriel will reply first thing in the morning.

How much does a paint color consultant cost?

Greg, our master color designer, composes a color story for your whole home: every surface, every room, judged in your own light, so the house feels like one place, and like you. The investment starts at $350, credited toward projects of $3,000 or more; the first meeting takes about an hour, and paint color recommendations are free.

See the colors up close

Our own work.

  • A new dark limewash color with custom mottling, on a sample board

    A new deep violet-blue limewash color, brushed out on a board with mottling of its own, so its depth and movement can be judged before it goes on a wall.

    A deep violet-blue limewash brushed in crossing strokes across a board, beside a card with two swatches of the same color
    The new color on a board
    Close view of the deep violet-blue limewash, its crossing brush strokes leaving a soft, mottled movement
    Up close: the mottling

  • A new color, from raw pigment

    Raw pigments, measured out and mixed by hand in our studio. A new color begins this way, then is brushed out on a board and judged in the light before any of it reaches a wall.

    A clear cup on a studio scale holding green, deep teal, and violet pigment powders, not yet mixed
    Pigments, not yet mixed
    Three small cups of green, deep teal, and magenta pigment beside a palette knife on a studio counter
    Measured out on the studio table

More of our work

  • Deep oxblood walls with a pale tree and birds painted beside a carved bed, in a Zionsville bedroom
    Oxblood bedroom with a painted tree, Zionsville In this home, each room is a mood of its own, made to shine at the hour it is used and for what happens there. The bedroom is drenched in deep oxblood, with a pale tree and birds painted across the wall. The same home has a Cypress Ink kitchen and a lavender bathroom.
  • Warm mushroom Roman clay walls with a bookcase and French doors, in a Zionsville living room
    La Catedral Roman clay living room, Zionsville Dark brown walls gave way to La Catedral, a warm mushroom Roman clay with soft movement in the light, and the kitchen wears the same clay. The same home has a golden powder room.
  • The play area with peach and sage plaster, arched boards on the far wall, and a railing to the stairs
    Play area in lime plaster, with boards built into the wall, Geist A baby’s play area in limestone plaster, sage and peach meeting in organic curves through the corners, the peach in a stone texture. The pink wall around the window, its casing, and the floating cabinet under the boards glow in a pearlescent wet silk, San Marco’s Cadoro. A magnetic chalkboard and a dry-erase board are built right into the plaster, and the ceiling and trim are a custom warm cream that holds the whole color story together.
  • The polished cream marble backsplash under honey-toned wood cabinets beside a window, above a dark speckled counter
    Cypress Ink limewash kitchen with a cream marble backsplash, Zionsville A kitchen in soft gray-green Cypress Ink limewash, above a backsplash of polished cream marble with no grout lines. The same home has an oxblood bedroom and a lavender bathroom.

Colors of our own

The Turn, our custom palette of thirty beautiful colors, is the world’s first limewash and plaster collection built around its signature darks, revealed for the first time at Design Chicago 2026.

Greg Klopper showing a visitor the colors of The Turn across a clear acrylic table, a chevron-papered wall behind them
Greg Klopper presenting The Turn

Designer paints and lacquer, applied by hand

From Farrow & Ball to Fine Paints of Europe, we help you choose each paint for your light and materials. Over Level 5 smooth walls, high-gloss lacquer shines like still water. For metal, pearl, or velvet, see our exotic paints. Painting walls and ceilings starts at $350.

Where your color can live

Color matching is included

Tips from the studio

  1. Judge a color on your wall, never on a chip

    A chip under store lights tells you little. We look at real samples on your walls in the morning and the evening, because north and south light can make one color two.

  2. Know which way your light comes

    North light is cool and steady, south light warm and changing, and west light turns golden at dusk. Choose color in the light the room actually gets.

  3. Start color with what stays

    Choose wall colors from the things you will not change: the floor, the stone, a rug you love. Greg designs every color around them, so the whole home reads as one story.

  4. Try a bold palette in the powder room first

    Love a palette that feels a little outside your comfort zone? Start in the powder room. A small room loves all the attention it can get, and you will see the colors come together at full strength. If you love it there, carry it through the house.

  5. Paint the trim the color of the walls

    When the trim, the doors, and the walls share one color, a room feels calmer and taller. Change the sheen instead: matte on the walls, satin on the trim.

  6. Repeat a color three times

    Echo a wall color in a pillow, a vase, and a painting, and the room feels designed rather than decorated.

  7. Treat the ceiling as the fifth wall

    A ceiling a shade lighter than the walls lifts a low room. A deep one brings a tall room down to a human scale and makes a large space feel intimate.

  8. Deep color on the window wall

    Put the deepest color on the wall with the windows, and the view becomes a painting in a dark frame, while the other walls stay bright.

  9. Give the samples a full day

    Leave the sample boards in the room for a day, and look at them in morning light, at noon, and by lamplight before you choose. The right one will look right at all three.

  10. Dark colors make small rooms feel larger

    In a deep color, a powder room or a study loses its corners at night, so the walls seem to recede. Add one warm light and a mirror, and the room glows.

  11. Wet walls look darker

    Lime and clay dry lighter than they look while wet, and can take a few days to show their true color. Judge the color once the wall is dry.

  12. Choose a dark made for mineral walls

    Deep colors are the hardest to get right in lime. The Turn, our own collection, is built around its darks, so a moody room starts from colors made for limewash and plaster.

  13. Warm bulbs for mineral walls

    Lime and clay glow under warm white light, the kind marked 2700K on the box. Cold, blue-white bulbs drain them, and warm colors turn gray. Change the bulbs before you judge a color at night.

  14. One warm cream above every room

    Ceilings and trim in one warm cream, carried through the house, tie rooms of very different colors into one calm story.

  15. Mix finishes, keep one story

    Polished plaster in the dining room, matte limewash in the living room, clay in the bedroom: different finishes, one palette, and the home still reads as one place.

  16. Warm metals with warm walls

    Aged brass, bronze, and copper love clay and lime in warm tones; nickel and chrome suit cool grays and blues. Match the hardware to the wall, and the room settles.

  17. One story through every room

    A whole-home plan gives each room its own mood and still lets the house read as one: the same light, a shared palette, and finishes that answer each other.

  18. Paint can glow too

    Not every beautiful wall is plaster. Exotic paints shimmer like silk, pearl, or metal, and they love a ceiling, a niche, or a powder room.

  19. A lacquered front door

    A front door in high-gloss lacquer, in a deep green or oxblood, greets every guest with a mirror shine. It is the smallest project with the biggest first impression.

What you can count on, in writing

Every step, in detail

The investment in color design

We keep every color on file for touch-ups and future rooms.

Whole-home color story design from $350credited toward projects of $3,000 or more
Painting walls and ceilings from $350
What shapes your investment
  • Wall condition and repairs
  • Ceiling height, ladders, and scaffolding
  • Ceilings and hard-to-reach surfaces
  • Outlets, crevices, and tight corners a trowel can barely reach
  • Niches, curves, and returns
  • Which stone we reproduce, and in how much detail
  • Framing for mantels and built-ins
  • Small projects, which carry a minimum
  • Rush schedules and overnight work
Get my fixed quote Every investment, in one place

Questions about color and paint

Do you recommend paint colors?

Yes, free, at your design consultation. Color design is for more: one story across every room and surface.

Do you match colors or create custom ones?

Both. Bring a fabric, a photograph, or a paint color, and we will match it; matching is included with every finish. For projects of $1,500 or more, we will design a color for the room.

Can you match a Farrow & Ball color in limewash or plaster?

Yes. We can match any Farrow & Ball, Sherwin-Williams, or Benjamin Moore color in limewash or plaster.

Do you also paint?

Yes. We paint walls, ceilings, cabinets, doors, trim, decks, and siding in premium and designer paints. Because we also plaster, build built-ins, set up lighting, and repair wall and trim damage, interior painting with us never means juggling several contractors.

Which brands do you use?

Designer paints from Farrow & Ball, Fine Paints of Europe, Little Greene, Mylands, Edward Bulmer, C2, Donald Kaufman Color, and Porter’s Paints, among others.

How do you choose a whole-house color palette?

Greg designs it with you as one color story for every room and every surface, chosen for your light, floors, furniture, and who you are, so color flows from room to room. See whole rooms and homes.

How long does a color consultation take?

About an hour for the first meeting. Then we follow up over several days, and a final presentation in your home locks in every color in your own light, in real life, never on a screen.

Tell us how you want the room to feel

Greg or Gabriel replies today, or by the next business day.

Prefer to talk? Call or text (317) 795-6378.

How should we reach you?

A phone number or an email address is enough.

Preferred contact
Where should the magic happen?
Where is the home?Where is the business?

For example, Whitestown, Broad Ripple, or Lebanon

When would you like to walk in and see it finished?
Is the holiday a firm deadline?

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