Color Consultation in Wilmette

Our Color Consultation service helps you select interior and exterior paint colors. We provide specific color recommendations for your home. This service focuses on color without changing layouts or furnishings.

What we do

During a Design consultation, we discuss your home's existing features and your preferences. We then present your design with specific color palettes and material selections. We provide Construction documents detailing paint colors and finishes for your contractor. Jill Kearns leads these consultations in Atlanta, and Jennifer Peterson leads them in Chicago and Southwest Michigan. We do not provide jobsite inspections for this service.

Who it suits

This service suits homes in Chicago, Atlanta, and Southwest Michigan. It is ideal for bungalows, Victorians, and mid-century ranches needing updated color schemes. We help with single rooms, entire interiors, or exterior paint selections.

Questions

What specifically do I receive with a Color Consultation?

You receive a Presentation of your design with specific color palettes. We also provide Construction documents detailing paint colors and finishes for your contractor.

How does this differ from your Full-Home Design service?

Color Consultation focuses only on paint and finish colors. Full-Home Design includes space planning, furnishing, and styling for multiple rooms, along with material selections and jobsite inspections.

Is this service suitable for exterior paint selections?

Yes, our Color Consultation service includes interior and exterior paint color selections. We provide specific recommendations for your home's exterior finishes.

Who will be working on my Color Consultation?

Jennifer Peterson leads Color Consultations in Chicago and Southwest Michigan. Jill Kearns leads these consultations in Atlanta.

Does this service include furnishing or styling?

No, this service focuses solely on color selection. Our Furnishing & Styling service covers furniture, accessories, and decorative elements.

In Wilmette

Homes in Wilmette

Wilmette homes include 1920s brick Tudors and Colonials in areas like Indian Hill Estates, often featuring smaller, closed-off kitchens that homeowners want to open up. Many 1950s and 1960s ranches and split-levels in neighborhoods such as Mallard Ridge present opportunities for Full-Home Design, particularly with their original bathrooms that often have outdated layouts. We often work on these homes, addressing common issues like low basement ceilings in 1970s builds near Lake Michigan with Basement Remodel services. Homeowners also frequently seek Kitchen Design for these older homes, updating their original cabinetry and finishes.

What homeowners in Wilmette ask for

Homeowners in Wilmette frequently update 1920s and 1930s kitchens, which often involve reconfiguring galley layouts to create more open Living Space. Many 1950s and 1960s homes require Bathroom Design to modernize fixtures and expand smaller primary baths. We also see requests for Basement Remodel projects in homes built in the 1970s and 1980s, aiming to improve functionality and light. Furnishing & Styling is a common request for refreshed living areas across various home eras.

Led by Jennifer Peterson from the Chicago studio

Jennifer Peterson and Jill Kearns, the sisters behind J. Peterson Design

About the studio

Two sisters, one studio

Jennifer Peterson founded J. Peterson Design in 2008 and leads our work in Chicago and Southwest Michigan. Her sister, Jill Kearns, leads the Atlanta studio. Together, we design homes that feel considered and beautiful, but also comfortable, functional, and personal to the people who live in them.

Although we work in different cities, we operate as one studio. We talk through plans, share ideas, question each other, and bring another experienced set of eyes to the decisions that matter. Being sisters makes that collaboration especially natural — there is a shorthand, an honesty, and a shared standard that has been there long before the studio.

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