AWARD WINNING AVANT PALETTE OFFERS PRICE MATCH GUARANTEE THRU APRIL

March 27, 2013—Avant Palette (www.avant-palette.com), the Southwest and Pacific’s premier faux finishing company, announced today a price match offer through April 2013. Avant Palette works hard to bring you competitive low prices and strives to meet or beat others. This price matching guarantee applies to any faux finish or Venetian plaster project booked between now and April 30, 2013. Customers can take advantage of the price match initiative by simply “liking” us on Facebook and showing us the original quote (including costs) from any local competitor; Avant Palette will match the price with an identical finish.

Margarette Johannes / Avant Palette Awarded #1 Best Treatment by ASID 2012 for Faux Finishes, Venetian Plasters

Margarette Johannes, Avant Palette’s principal, is thrilled to launch this never seen before offer, “I’m confident my company’s faux and Venetian plaster finishes are of the highest quality and speedy service. I want to extend this price guarantee in addition to my new, modern line of finishes, to all.”

 

 

PRICE MATCH TERMS & CONDITIONS

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*Avant Palette has the right to reject or refuse any price match request or order upon our discretion. While we will make every attempt to match a competitor’s price if requested, we sometimes cannot match competitor’s prices. In the event we cannot match a competitor’s price to a price match request, we will contact you with our lowest price.

*Material cost changes and gas fees may apply.

*Prices submitted cannot include other special promotional offers.

*Price Matches must be manually reviewed.

*All prices must be from a current date.

*Price Match requests will be rejected for any competitor’s prices that appear to be a misprint, typographic error, fraudulent price or misrepresentation of a product.

Avant Palette Custom Fauxs Back At Del Mar Racetrack Sprucing Things Up!

Avant Palette is back at the office aka Del Mar Racetrack. We are working on custom Italian fauxs throughout the private boxes, 6th floor. The inner turf is under major landscape reconstruction. Should be incredible by Opening Day! -Margarette Johannes, LEED AP

Margarette Johannes & Avant Palette – Custom Faux Finishes, Expand Kauai’s Services

Margarette Johannes, LEED AP, announced yesterday her company, Avant Palette Custom Walls, is expanding throughout Kauai and Hawaii to offer the same modern, custom finishes and mural services enjoyed by her San Diego clientele. Such services will include the award winning finishes selected by ASID, the American Society of Interior Designers, on the Meridian Luxury Lofts downtown San Diego. For the month of April inquire about the price match special. Avant-palette.com will beat any competitor’s price on any contract signed from April 1 – 30, 2013.

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Camouflage !!

This is clever! Body painted girl to match the bench. Now THAT’S a faux finish!!

“Color personality”: A helpful shortcut to your client’s ideal hues? Or a time-wasting detour?

BY KELLY PORTER

Avant Palette Custom Walls, Fauxs, Venetian Plasters, offers color consultation.

“Color personality”: A helpful shortcut to your client’s ideal hues?
Or a time-wasting detour?

• What new culinary craze are you dying to try?
• What time of year do you feel the happiest?
• It’s Friday night in a big city. Do you stay in or hit the town?
• Which of the following guilty pleasures is most your style?

At the start of a residential project, many designers ask their clients a series of lifestyle questions. It’s often a reliable way to determine what design style makes sense for them. So I found it interesting when I saw the questions above in a color character quiz published by Fresh Home magazine. Maybe you’ve seen similar quizzes and were tempted to borrow a question or two for your clients?

But should design professionals who specialize in residential design use these tricks? Can knowing people’s favorite foods really tell us what colors they want on their walls or which furnishings suit their living rooms? I decided to find out by conducting an experiment with an eight-person focus group.

The participants took one of two surveys. One was the Fresh Home color character quiz, and the other was a Better Homes and Gardens color personality test. My goal was simply to see if the results tended toward accuracy. The overall outcome: Half the participants received results they believed were true, while the other half did not.

After answering questions as random as where they’d go on vacation and how they’d handle unexpected weekend guests, four of the participants came away with a color personality described as “Colorful Gray,” a palette of grays with varying undertones that can be paired with jewel tones. Out of those four, only one person did not approve of that answer: “I like gray, but I could never layer a room with a bunch of different grays. That would look depressing to me. I prefer to use more happy colors in my home like yellow, pink and orange.”

Another participant was initially a bit reluctant to accept her Colorful Gray result, but in the end it started to make sense to her: “I think I generally prefer more color. However, I was planning to use purple with white and silver accents in one of my rooms. Maybe the gray could be interpreted as silver?”

One other person, whose color personality came back as “Nautical Blues,” felt her result was way off. “I was described as liking vibrant and refreshing ocean blues. That’s not really me. I tend to like warm colors.”

In spite of the perceived mismatches, one participant felt her result was spot on. Her color character was “Refined Rustic,” with a fondness for natural and organic earth tones. This description falls completely in line with the browns, rusts and ambers she’s used throughout her home.

My take-away from this experiment: Asking a client only general lifestyle questions is not a reliable way to understand his or her ideal decorating palette. Color preferences can change over time and be influenced by current trends, and too many vague and abstract questions can muddle the overall color results.

As a color consultant, I’ve created a questionnaire of my own. My questions elicit a person’s associations with color and focus on the particular room being decorated. Here are a few examples:

• What colors bring back fond childhood memories?
• What activities take place in this room?
• What words describe how you want your room to feel? For example: cozy, glam, retro, sleek.
• Currently, what are your favorite colors?

Asking these and other targeted questions helps me consistently choose the right colors for my clients. I believe a more straightforward approach to color selection leaves little room for error.

Avant Palette – Custom Fauxs, Venetian Plasters offers color consultation for every client. Please inquire!

We are continuously honored….!

We are continuously honored to have been awarded #1 2012 Best Wall Treatment by ASID for our combo silver leaf finish and faux project. Check it @ http://asidsandiego.org/industry-partners/new-design-excellence-awards/.

Award Winning Wall. Silver leaf, decorative plaster, & faux finish. Location: San Diego.

 

Coronado home under way! Will showcase our innovate 2013 patent pending faux finishes & Venetian plasters.

Working on a craftsman home on Coronado. The faux finishes we are using are our own patent pending, innovative, modern finishes. Stay tuned for the final look showcasing a polished bronze Venetian plaster and brass decorative plaster & faux finish.

 

Coronado, San Diego. Many homes & businesses use Avant Palette for all their custom faux finishes, Venetian plassters, & murals.

Debate Erupts Over Art and Commerce. Should This Mural Be Deemed Original Or Not?

I read this today. It’s very interesting in the world of public art. Please let me know your thoughts as you think Morgan produced an original or not….

Andrea Adelson | January 18, 2013

“Pop artist Andy Warhol’s soup cans heated arguments over blurring commercialism in service of art when they were first exhibited in 1962.

This week, environmental consultant Roger Butow re-opened the topic in Laguna Beach, claiming in two public meetings that the city’s arts arbiters were “duped” when okaying an outdoor mural for a prominent downtown wall. Butow contends the work differs from what was sanctioned and constitutes an unfair, 500-foot billboard, though arts commissioners found otherwise. Moreover, Butow pointed out that parts of the mural aren’t original, but duplicated in Dana Point. He called for an inquiry.

City staff will investigate Butow’s allegations of violations of city policy, City Manager John Pietig said Wednesday.

At the mural’s unveiling last November, hundreds of people came to check out the “Waterman’s Wall” installed on the street-side of the Hobie Surf Shop at the corner of Beach Street and Forest Avenue. Artist Randy Morgan’s sprawling landscape in bronze relief includes surfers, skimmers, lifeguards, paddlers and pelicans.

When the mural was completed, additional figures and the scope of the mural that differed from the plan approved by the Arts Commission in 2010 caught the eye of cultural arts manager Sian Poeschl. Since Morgan failed to respond to her request that mural revisions be resubmitted for approval, Poeschl renewed her request this week with Hobie’s co-owner, local resident Mark Christy.

“It’s not a billboard,” said Christy. “It’s not depicting anything in the shop.”

City guidelines require murals be devised of original work and that artists seek approval of the Arts Commission. Works that include trademarks, logos or words are considered signage and require review by the Planning Commission.

Based on Morgan’s initial proposal, commissioners determined that the mural met the required artistic criteria and lacked a commercial message, Poeschl said. Whether the unsanctioned additions jeopardize that decision will have to be determined by the commission at some later date, she said.

In an email sent to council members and the media, Butow contends that a figure in the mural, a sculpture of a tandem surfing team and an homage to industry icon Hobie Alter, constitutes a franchise icon, a secondary logo for Hobie Inc.

Poeschl said that particular figure was part of the original approved design.

Yet, a similar tandem-team sculpture, which looks like it was cast from the same mold as the figures in Laguna’s mural, was also installed on a store Hobie remodeled in Dana Point several years ago. The works were installed voluntarily as the cost of the remodel fell below what would trigger a required public art installation, said John Tilton, acting director of community development.

Christy, who didn’t answer a query about the Dana Point art work, suggested the squabble stemmed from a financial dispute between Butow and Morgan. He said he did not initiate the Laguna project, but was approached by the artist, who raised private funds for its financing. “I thought I was doing something nice for the town,” Christy said.”

Bavarian, Tyrolean, & Rose Painters. Hard to find trades, but well worth the investment.

If you have a project where the finishing touches are either Bavarian, Tyrolean, or Scandinavian Rose Painting, give Avant Palette a call. Margarette Johannes was trained as a young girl in the Norwegian ‘Rose Painting’ and expanded on her skills to Bavarian & Tyrolean styles. Such artwork is widely used in mountain towns and ski resorts across the Nation. Examples of her work can be seen in Vail, Colorado, who’s sister resort is St. Mortiz, Switzerland. Both commercially and residentially, Bavarian artwork is prominent in Vail. Some artistic finishes date to the 60′s, while others like Johannes’ are recent. Below are some examples of her Euro paintings.

Built From Scratch, Avant Palette Painted Finished This Dresser With French Accents

Detail Handpainted French Dresser by Avant Palette

Faux Finished Trunk & Handpainted Tyrolean Artwork.

Hand Painted Tyrolean / Bavarian / Rose Painting Chair By Avant Palette

Detail Image Of Tyrolean / Bavarian Art By Avant Palette.

Built To Match The Chair, Avant Palette Replicated The Finish & Tyrolean Art.

Cup of Tea, Darlin’??

Colorful Blooming Teas, Loved by Avant Palette Custom Walls

Colorful Blooming Teas – Avant Palette Custom Walls

I saw these on sale on FaB, beautiful blooming teas and cute teapots. Being more of a tea drinker vs. coffee, these teas caught my eye. If anyone has ordered from this company, let me know your thoughts!!!

Here’s purchasing link (below): Colorful Blooming Teas – Avant Palette Custom Walls

Just add hot water!!

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