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Download a 21-page sample of Contemporary Relationships between Wood & Finish in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format. This sample contains the title page, table of contents, chapter 1, Speaking wood, the first subhead from chapter 7, Paint and stain, the first subhead from chapter 13, Color: imagination, feeling, and cognition, Appendix A, and the index.

how to choose colors
After 20 years of studying color psychology, helping others to choose colors, and a few color changes at my own home, I’ve arrived at a pragmatic system.

My monthly columns for The Paint Dealer are downloadable as published PDFs. Click on the column(s) to download.

1. Introductory column:
Exotica and the Retail Paint Trade

2. The Sandpaper Tree

3. Clear Finishes and Canadian Preferences

4. Paint Dealer Education: (Part 1)
Are you where you want to be?

5. Paint Dealer Education: (Part 2)
Are you a hep cat or a generation behind?

6. Paint Dealer Education: (Part 3)
Why care about how your exterior products are used?

7. Selling vibrations:
old school v. new school (Part 1)

8. Selling Vibrations:
the CIB simulator (Part 2)

9. The Alchemy of Flood Finishes

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