— Cozy
The Lakewood Library
A north-facing reading room got an evening glow with warm clay walls, deep oak trim left natural, and a near-black wainscot. Hard to leave the chair.
Hi — I'm Kellie.
Your personal painting assistant.
Send me as many photos and videos as you'd like — a walk-through, a slow pan of the dining room, the corner you keep side-eyeing, the wall that's been beige since 2019. Tell me about your family, your light, your Sunday mornings, the way you live at 7am and at 9pm. I'll curate every paint decision — walls, trim, ceilings, cabinets — and introduce you to one local painter who'll bring it to life the way you've been picturing it for years.
"It'll finally feel like home."
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— A little more about me
The one who notices the original oak above your kitchen doorway and tells you, gently, to leave it alone. The one who walks your hallway with you and says "this hall wants Alabaster, and your dining room wants to feel like a velvet jewel box." That's the conversation we're going to have.
I'm a personal painting assistant for women who already know what they love and are finally ready to live in it. Walls, trim, doors, ceilings, cabinets — I make every paint decision with you, then introduce you to one local painter I'd let into my own home. The point isn't a refreshed wall. It's a Sunday morning that feels different, a foyer your friends pause in, a bedroom you actually want to wake up in.
How we put it together
No measuring tape. No five contractors in your driveway. No "let me get back to you" emails. Just a calm, collaborative conversation where you tell me about your life and I curate a space made for it.
— Step one
Send me as many photos and videos as you'd like. A slow walk-through of every room. Close-ups of trim, cabinets, ceilings. The corner that's been bugging you. The Pinterest pins, the screenshots, the magazine pages you've been hoarding. Plus a little about your life — your family, your kids and pets, your light, the way the rooms actually get used at 7am and at 9pm. The more you give me, the better I'll curate.
— Step two
Walls. Trim. Doors. Ceilings. Cabinets. Each surface, each color, each finish — picked for the way your light falls and the way your family actually lives. I'll come back with a curated palette and a detailed plan, then we riff. Swap a color. Push a wall darker. Keep the trim original. Sleep on it. It's your home.
— Step three
When you've picked your color, I hand-pick a single local painter from my network and send them the full plan — the rooms, the trim, the colors, the prep, the timeline. They arrive ready. You approve. Paint shows up at your door (or the store closest to you). Done by next weekend. You got exactly what you wanted, and you barely lifted a finger.
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Color stories
Tell Kellie what you want your home to feel like — and she'll curate the colors that get you there. Here are three of her favorite recent stories.
— Cozy
A north-facing reading room got an evening glow with warm clay walls, deep oak trim left natural, and a near-black wainscot. Hard to leave the chair.
— Airy
South-facing, full-day light, oak floors. Three whisper-soft whites — one for walls, one for trim, one for the ceiling. Looks like a different house.
— Dramatic
A small dining room turned jewelry box. Deep brown-black walls, rich terracotta ceiling, dusty rose for the built-ins. People can't stop talking about it.
How a riff with Kellie looks
You bring both. I'll lay them next to each other, notice what's worth fixing in your home, pull the soul out of your inspiration — and bridge them into one color story that actually fits where you live.
— What you've got
— What you love
— Where they meet, your paint plan.
Alabaster walls + warm-white trim · Cavern Clay drenched powder room · Tricorn Black on the front door. Riff with me — swap anything.
Begin with Kellie
A few photos. A few words. A sense of how you actually live in your rooms. That's all I need to curate every paint decision with you — walls, trim, ceilings, cabinets — and bring in the local painter who'll finally do it the way you've been picturing it.
Real homes, real moments
Now the house finally feels like us. Not like the people before us. Not like the builder. Like us. I put off this paint project for four years because I could not face the parade of contractors. Kellie made it feel like a long conversation with a friend who actually understood what I wanted — a warm white that didn't pull yellow, original trim left alone, a moody dining room that still feels inviting. Done in nine days.
Kellie noticed the original oak above our kitchen doorway and asked if I wanted to keep it. Nobody had ever asked. The whole project felt like that — someone listening.
I asked for "cozy not dark" for the dining room and Kellie understood. Deep clay walls, original trim, a softer cream on the ceiling. I cried a little when I walked in.
The cabinets look factory-painted. No brush strokes. No drips. Sprayed exactly the way I'd been picturing for two years.