Charry Palma Design

We worked with Charry from 1990 until our last home re-do in 2018. We’ve used her inside and out on numerous homes. She is incredibly talented and gave us paint colors that many people tried to copy but never hit just right. My doorbell rang many times with people asking for my paint colors and I stumbled across many folks with paint chips in my driveway trying to get the same look. Our interiors were just as special and our guests commented on how our rooms “felt” often. She listens and then uses her decades of experience and her unwavering talent to find the right look. I recommend her highly.

Charry has an incredible gift for understanding color. Consultations that I (and the many friends I’ve referred to her) have had saved us significant amounts of time and money in addition to improving and updating the look of our houses – inside and out. When painting my house's exterior, I should have been smart enough to call her immediately. Instead, I wasted weeks of indecision swatching colors and then several hundred dollars when I had to repaint over the unfortunate choice I had made on my own. Charry can not only see the undertones in specific colors but tell you how these colors and the lighting in your specific room will affect the look of other colors in the area. She also is savvy about trends in color and can recommend shades and combinations that will look more modern and up to date. You can describe in words the paint color you are trying to achieve and she will listen carefully and pick it out of thousands of paint chips. And, I should mention as well that Charry is responsive, decisive, and very easy to work with. In short, she's amazing!

I have worked with Charry Palma off and on for thirteen years now on many projects in two different homes. In one word, she is incredible. She has an eye for color that I have not found in anyone else. She has helped me with paint colors on my interior walls, fabric selections for drapes, carpet colors, kitchen backsplash colors and design, driveway color, exterior house paint color, furniture placement and scale, staircase stain color, hardwood floor color, tile color and cabinet color to name just a few projects! She is wonderful to work with because she listens well to the client and then brings in her expertise. Color is challenging!!! It is one of the trickiest parts of decorating because it changes with light and looks one way on a sample but often entirely different in application. Especially paint. Charry takes all the guess work and game of "putting multiple paint samples on the wall" out of the equation. She knows how to select colors that will work, the first time. We built a brand new home and worked with countless "experts". But anytime color came into the equation in any sort of way, I always called Charry to get her stamp of approval. And more than once she saved the day by tweaking my selections (a big one was the color of my kitchen backsplash). As I said, I have worked with her over thirteen years on projects that were huge (choosing an exterior paint color for my house) to very small projects. I decided to put decorative shutters on the interior of my sons bedroom flanking his window. I knew I wanted them to be red and called on Charry to pick the "right" red. And she of course did. As I said before, color is TRICKY!!! I will continue to call on Charry for the next thirteen years! She is professional and amazing at what she does.