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The Colour Chameleon — Paint Color Consultant
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My story

The question I getmost often isn'tabout paint.

It's "how did you get into this?" — asked in kitchens, driveways, or halfway through a consult. I'm Patricia Smith, and I started The Colour Chameleon in 2017. The full story stretches back to before that, in other people's houses, with a lot of samples taped to a lot of walls.

Patricia Smith, Atlanta paint color consultant — smiling in a garden in a teal shirt

I came to color from the other side of the paint job.

Before The Colour Chameleon, I worked in residential painting — quoting projects, managing them, standing in the room while the work happened. Which meant I spent years walking into homes that were already covered in samples.

Different houses, different people, the same three sentences:

Too many people were walking into a paint project unprepared for the one decision that's hardest to undo. It led to rooms nobody was happy with. And, to the calls I still remember: stop the painters, we have to change the color. A repaint means more paint, more labor, more money, and almost all of it was avoidable.

That's when I knew I could help.

Nine years later that's still the whole job — what I know about color, plus everything the painting years taught me, pointed at getting it right before a single gallon is bought.

Patricia pointing to white and grey paint swatches taped to a stairway wall while a client studies them, with boxes of color decks stacked on the stairs
Samples go up big and they stay up — so you see them in your own light, next to your own floors.

It's your house. You get your taste, not mine.

Some people arrive a little guarded, because the last person they hired decided for them. I don't work that way. I listen first — how you actually live in the room, what you already love in it, what you're really trying to fix — and then I bring the colors that get you there.

I've always had a knack for seeing what a space could be, and after years of my own home projects I earned a certification in home redecorating. So don't be surprised if the conversation goes past your walls: lighting, where the furniture sits, even the plants out front. I just love helping people see what's possible.

See how a consult actually goes

Professional artists hire me.

People with art degrees, working artists: "I should be able to figure this out, but for some reason I can't." There's nothing wrong with their eye. Reading a color on a wall — in your light, against your floors, your brick, the house next door — is a different craft than making a beautiful thing. It's the one I do full time.

The referrals sound like this.

Nobody says "they were very professional." It comes out more personal than that.

  • I absolutely love this woman, you have to call her.

    — Client referral

  • You were my angel.

    — Consult client

  • I wish I'd known about this service before.

    — First-time client

Off the clock.

We'll be spending ninety minutes together, so you may as well know who's turning up.

I love color, I love homes, and I love helping people get it right.

Where I work

North metro Atlanta: Roswell, Marietta, Johns Creek, and Cumming, and more than two dozen suburbs around them — Buckhead is my southern line, and everything north of it is home ground. And yes, it's Colour with a u — the brand kept the British spelling, but The Color Chameleon finds me just the same.

You've met me. Here's the work.

Where most people go next.

If any of this sounds like your house, let's talk.

Tell me the room you're stuck in and what you've already tried. I'll get back to you within 1 business day.

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