Coastal
Colors
A paint line designed from the love of
beach and family
Coastal Colors has been around for over 2 decades. It was developed for
the love of beach and family. Painting internationally for over 3 decades from
Belize to Hawaii I have a huge passion for family, friends, beach, island life,
and “coastal colors”. When designing
clients homes and painting murals in businesses and residential I realized my
clients were choosing the same colors. These same timeless 33 colors have
traveled with me and are in places I have decorated all over the world.
Coastal Colors makes color combining easy. All 33 colors match one
another. You can close your eyes, pick any 3 colors and they will match. It is
easy to follow our 3 to 1 color combining theory.
Our colors are as easy as 1~2~3. Wipe/paint/seal
WE use multiple different sealers depending on project or client.
Waxes
Out Door Sealer
Coastal Colors Liquid Steele
You can paint anything with our paint. ANYTHING.
This whole chalk paint fad has taken on a very malicious undertone. With
companies fighting over names, taking down others sites, bashing other
businesses. At Coastal Colors we are not about that. This is why we stay away
from the word “chalk”. Just as with all
other fads this too will fade out just like bell bottoms and hi hair. We, Coastal
Colors, have been around for a long time. We have a great name. We are a small
family run business and we take our name, product and colors to heart. Our
students and clients are falling in love with our paints, our colors, our story
and our heART. Xxxooms.sherry
Meet Coastal Colors
Each Color has it’s own story.
All colors adding up to tell the story of my life, my Refunk Your Junk
Passion:
Belmar: The cute little
seashore town I was brought up in. The beach town where I spent my life with my
toes in the sand and salt water in my veins. The place where I fell in love
with my husband, the love of my life at the age of 14. This color warms my heart just like the
memories of my life in this sea side community.
Shutter: A darker version of
Belmar. When I was in grammar school I
would walk to school along the Shark River and pass some beautiful Seashore
Colonial homes. One of them, I remember, had these beautiful wooden shutters. Years later Super
Storm Sandy hit our seashore home and devastated us. During the clean up a man
came into my previous store “Paintin Place” and said I have some shutters from
our home that was demolished after Sandy would you like them. I said sure. I
went out to the truck and there they
were…. Those shutters that brought back such great childhood memories , now
bitter sweet the devastation of my town.
The towns people would come into the store for some pieces to re do their
homes and would see the shutters and say can I have my furniture painted that
color… hummm! Sure why not. So I mixed a color to match my shutters and it was
a hit. Hence SHUTTER. Those shutters are now the Farm Table I made for our
dining room in our new Florida retirement home. It is a 10 foot long table now
making new memories as our family and friends gather around these “Shutters”
that has been and always will be an important part of my life.
Jetty: Our brown. The color
of the big boulders that jet out from our Belmar Beaches to protect our shoreline.
They are molded together to make long
barricades called Jettys.
Nantucket: A burnt Red. A color
that reminds me of my time up in Nantucket Island.
Sea Glass: My favorite pass
time and memories is shell/sea glass hunting along the shoreline. I would take
my children for walks and talks as we hunted for “treasures from the sea”. If
one of us found a BLUE SEA GLASS we would say… wow you found the best treasure.
Since Blue Sea Glass is very rare. SO I mixed a color that is Navy Blue like
the deepest color in a piece of blue sea glass.
Sea Grass: In Belmar NJ we
didn’t have extravagant beach vegetation. It was mostly Sea Grasses… this is
the lighter color in a sea grass.
Life Guard: Our beautiful deep red.
Has a blue base so goes great with the beach blues. This is the color the
Belmar Beach lifeguards wore and the color of the old Jeep that the head life
guard drove.
Starfish: The medium value of beige
color found in a sugar starfish.
Summers Fog: The northern US summers
would have chilly nights and warm days. The big difference in temps would
create this misty gray fog over the beach. I would sit on my lania with coffee
and watch as that summers fog would dissipate as the sun lit up a new day. Summers
Fog!
Calm: is the light/soft
pink you find in the inner lining of a conch shell. The shell that when you put
to your ear you can here the mermaids sing. The singing of the mermaids makes
me CALM.
Summers Night: Our Deep Black. The
color of a cool summers night sky when there was a new moon.
Sea Spray: The color of the seas
spray as a wave would form as I studied
the curves of the waves and how it builds and than hits the shore line.
To The Maxx: A teal/blue. My son
loves to skate/snowboard/sky dive . Whe likes extreme adventures. He looks great in this blue because of his
green/teal eyes. His name is Maxx…. So “to the Maxx”
Turks:
Caicos: One of my Favorite
places in the world. I was mesmerized at how the sky, water and even sand ALL
are turquoise….. What I picture Heaven looks like….
Seaweed: a DEEP GREEN. The
color of the greens that washed up from the sea.
De De: A beautiful calming
silver blue. We call my oldest daughter Danielle ~De De. I loved this color and
painted it in our Belmar home. We got married amongst these walls with all our closest
family and friends. A place where two
families melded into one. Your first born is always your heart… this color on
the walls of our home warmed my heart…… therefore DeDe
Sandy Toes: I love sand between
my toes… this is the color of Belmar Beach sand when it is on your toes..
Maddy: A teal green. The
color of my youngest daughters eyes. Maddison, we call her Maddy.
Rachael: My step daughter.
She loves the beach and has salt in her viens. She always wore this color.
Rachael.
Beach Blue: a soft light blue. The color I always based
coat the ocean in my famous “20 minute beach scene” which I have been painting
and teaching for 30 years… timeless… beach Blue
Abster: My step son Abraham.
Named after my husbands father. Abe had
this color painted in his bedroom in Belmar NJ. Abe, his nickname by his dad,
my husband Joel…. Is “The Abster”.
Mermaids Tale: A SOFT yellow…the
lighter tone I use when painting a blonde mermaid.
Driftwood: I LOVE a nice piece
of driftwood…oh if it could just tell a story of where it came from and where
it’s been. The deep rich green/beige color you’d find in a nice piece of
Driftwood.
Shore Thing: A light teal green
color. A fav around here. Our little
beach town filled with seashore colonials with pocket doors, widow’s walks and
layers and layers of paint. These homes were
over a 100 years old. I remember sitting in friends homes and you’d see the
layers of chippy paint on the walls here and there… and the underneath color
was always this teal color. I loved that color since a little girl. It was the
go to color from days gone by of Belmar residents years before my time there….
I’d think “that color must have been a shore thing back than”….. Shore Thing
Palm Fronds: I spent years
studying all the different surfs, sands, vegetation’s and especially palm trees
all over the world. I would spend hours
just laying under a palm tree studying the palm fronds and colors. This is the
sage green you’d see in a Palm Frond.
New Blue: Once in a while I
will switch a color out if I come up with a new color that I like. I made this
color one day and when my staff came in they all flipped over it and my clients
were in awe. I’d say go get the new blue. Or paint this the New Blue. We
started painting and mixing so fast that we’d call it the New Blue and never
really came up with a name so the NEW BLUE stuck.
Dolphin: My love! One of my
Fav Places is Marineland here in florida. I go there and just sit and study the
dolphins. This is the gray on their underbelly.
Yellow Polka Dot
Bikini; Yes I had one!
Just Beachy: This is a
peachy/pink brilliant color. It just screams BEACH…. Life at the beach is just
peachy…. This is Just Beachy!
Bennie: Being a quant little
shore town summers would bring visitors from the north, New York, Staten
Island. These visitors would were neon
colors, shorts, black socks and flip flops. It was quite comical and we called
these visitors “Bennies”. So this beachy fun green is named after them.
AHA!: Off whites are
really difficult. A lot of the time they will pull a pink or grey or yellowish
tinge. I had tried 2 other off whites, but they pulled out colors. I needed a
very neutral off white that would be on it’s own and not throw a tinge. One day
I was playing and viola I scream “AHA”! I got it…. So I simply named it AHA!
Surfer Girl: Coastal Colors has a
lot of blues… lots of surfer boy blues…. But we had no “girly” colors… so I
came up with this pink/peach “Surfer Girl” color with a blue undertone so it
looks great with the teals.
Every season we come up with a color just for that season. It keeps
excitement. Grays are the new beige… I call it Gray~iege.
Steel My Heart: This is a beautiful deep gray. A Steel Gray. I use it on
pieces where I keep a natural top and clients and students are flipping….. When
I first mixed it I painted everything with it. This steel color stole my heart…hence
“Steel your heart”
Stay tuned for the Holiday Color…. In the mix!
Dance along to the amazing colors of Coastal Colors...
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