Paint color consulting may be
your perfect career!
Our in-person September paint color course is now CLOSED.
Take the online course from the comfort of home, at your own pace for only $1299!
Train to become a certified Psychological Color Expert™
The psychology of visual perception informs this approach to specifying color in interiors. Color has a tremendous impact on memory and first impressions. It can expand or contract space, as well as draw you across rooms and into adjoining ones. Establishing purposeful color design throughout a home creates a sense of cohesion, while giving every space its own personality. The right paint color and placement to make homes look more expensive by accentuating the positive and de-emphasizing unfortunate architecture and dated finishes. The wrong color can create disharmony with hard surfaces and furnishings, while poor color combinations and placement can date a home to a specific decade.
Learn from an Expert
Paint Color Training from Highly Acclaimed Residential Color Expert
“I’m revealing all of my color secrets, my system and processes, my favorite colors and color combinations – absolutely everything I know about paint colors. I want you to do exactly what I’ve done: build a successful design business with a focus on COLOR, which has more visual impact than any other element of design!”
– Kristie Barnett, The Decorologist®
Kristie has been a featured writer for Everyday Home magazine, The Tennessean newspaper, and Houzz.com. Her design and color work have been published in Southern Living, This Old House, Better Homes & Gardens, Romantic Homes, Washington Post, Huffington Post, USA Weekend, ABC News, Fox News, HGTV.com, Realtor.com, and more. She has collaborated with many national brands including LP SmartSide, Lowes, HomeGoods, Kirkland’s, CREE, and Carpet One. She is currently the brand ambassador for Small Wall paint sample boards.
Featured In
Included in the Psychological Color Expert™ Course
Two Days of Instruction with Kristie
Full Color PCE™ Manual
Go-To Color Guides
Colors Combos for Every Situation
Perfect Paint Palette™ Kit
100+ Paint Color Photos
Benjamin Moore Fan Decks
Sherwin-Williams Designer Kit
Certificate, Press Release, Logo
And There’s More!
- Live practice activities with Kristie’s feedback to reinforce learning
- Catered lunches, drinks, and snacks provided
- Hor d’oeuvres reception after training completion at Kristie’s home, Granbery Manor
In the PCE™ Paint Color Training,
You Will Learn To:
- Understand hue families and undertones
- Sample and test the right paint colors
- Avoid mistakes in paint color and paint color placement
- Expand any space with the right color and color placement
- Increase the perceived value of any interior
- Master the Perfect Paint Palette™ kit
- Create harmonious interior color palettes
- Code fan decks with Decorologist-approved colors
- Rock your paint color consultations
- Easily price and market your services
Exclusive PCE™ Fan Deck Coding System
Our unique coding system for all Benjamin Moore® and Sherwin-Williams® fan decks will enable you to instantly identify undertones of neutrals as well as Decorologist®-approved colors to pair with specific finishes and immovable features.
Kristie Barnett is an award-winning color expert, design educator, and author. She has specified paint colors for thousands of spaces and written over 1,300 articles on color, design, and staging.
The Decorologist® has personally trained and mentored hundreds of stagers from across North America in her system based on the psychology of visual perception and color. Recent awards include 2018-2020 Most Influential People in Real Estate Staging, 2020-2021 Top Design Influencers, 2017 RESA® Redesigner of the Year, and 2016 Innovative Product of the Year. Additional awards and accolades here.
Kristie Barnett is an award-winning color expert, design educator, and author. She has specified paint colors for thousands of spaces and written over 1,300 articles on color, design, and staging.
The Decorologist® has personally trained and mentored hundreds of stagers from across North America in her system based on the psychology of visual perception and color.
Recent awards include
- 2018-2020 Most Influential People in Real Estate Staging
- 2020-2021 Top Design Influencers
- 2017 RESA® Redesigner of the Year
- 2016 Innovative Product of the Year
- Additional awards and accolades here
Why Choose The Psychological Color Expert™ Course?
Other courses provide generic color information you can dig up online...
The Psychological Color Expert™ course isn’t full of regurgitated color knowledge. From the first module to the last, it offers original content and highly-specific instruction that you can’t find anywhere else.
Other courses are taught by those who have done little or no color specification themselves.
The Psychological Color Expert™ course is taught by one of the top paint color experts in the country whose work has been featured in dozens of national print and online outlets. Check out her portfolio here.
Other courses use the work of others, culled from other designers, pinterest, and other online sources.
The Psychological Color Expert™ course provides ONLY real-life examples of paint color palettes specified by the trainer herself, so you have confidence that the recommendations you make aren’t based on inaccurate representations of color that have been filtered, edited, or altered in some way.
Other courses lack structure, give you lists of “most popular” colors put out by the paint companies, and don’t provide the tools you need to launch your business.
Psychological Color Expert™ is the only course that includes a proven step-by-step process, specific and curated colors in both Benjamin Moore® and Sherwin-Williams® for every situation, and advanced professional tools so that you can immediately conduct consultations confidently.
Other color courses are available ONLY online.
While the Psychological Color Expert™ course IS available online, we are offering in-person training if you’d like to learn in an intimate, small group setting where conversation and questions are encouraged! Includes a free year of ongoing support and assistance with your paint color questions in a private Facebook mentoring group where Kristie interacts on a regular basis.