Designer Profile - Rhondda Carnevale

Color Consultant

Rhondda Carnevale
"Colore Colore"
Merivale Christchurch New Zealand

Qualifications: Trade Certificate in Painting & Decorating
Specialist Areas: Interior and Exterior color schemes, both residential and commercial. Specialist Paint Finishes.

Rhondda has a passion for color. She lives and breathes it and this rubs off on her clients.

She instils the confidence in them to tell her what they need and she has the skills to interpret and deliver the successful result. S

he is a "people" person, a skill necessary for creating color spaces for homes.

Rhondda gets inspired by nature with her schemes, and has been know to design a room around the diverse range of greys hues in river stones from a riverbed.

Through her trade experience she has experimented with specialist paint finishes. She teams up with her mother to create wonderful Faux Finishes and Paint Effects.

The second example is a new mud brick house. The client wanted colors to contrast with the bricks. Rhondda has used Malta, a warm earthy brown, taken from the color of the plaster compound between the bricks. This ties to walls together and creates a warm natural feeling while enhancing the color and texture of the leather lounge suites.

Earthy materials and color create a warm cosy living room.

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