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Meet Barbara Jacobs, Architectural Color ConsultantReady for a change? You’ve come to the right place.
Welcome! Since 1996
I’ve had the honor of serving as an architectural color specialist, consulting “exterior to interior” with homeowners and business owners like you, all across the country.
- You’re here because you’re interested in enjoying the benefits of using color to create a positive experience in how you feel and function wherever you live, work, and play.
- That’s what I mean by “Environmental Color.” It’s about making your personal environments more healthy, comfortable, and enjoyable.
Supporting and inspiring you in your home and workplace environments, from exterior to interior.
I have known and worked with Barbara for many years, and her creativity and keen sense of color has always been right on. She brings her best effort to everything she does.
You can depend on Barbara to provide the finest in selections and the best options in color effects for your projects.
Color is such an important part of the design process and has a real impact on our sense of well-being, so it is important to hire a specialist with such great vision and skill.
—Doreen Le May Madden LC, CLC, IES
Certified Lighting Architect
Certified Sustainable Designer
An IACC Accredited Color Designer since 2000
Barbara received accreditation status in 2000 through the IACC (International Association of Color Consultants). Her work has been published internationally through that organization. She has been acknowledged as an expert in the field of applied color psychology and supportive color design.
Barbara has also been interviewed by, and published with, numerous national professional and shelter media, both in print and online. These articles have been focused on the subject of supportive color design, color trends, and selecting colors for interiors and architecture.
Environmental Color Consultant
Originally from Minnesota, in 2015 Barbara moved from living in Massachusetts to Sebastopol, CA.
Her father, William Saltzman, was a well known Midwestern painter, sculptor and stained-glass artist. Barbara enjoyed growing up in an environment rich in color and surrounded by a variety of fine art.
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- In that environment, she experienced many opportunities to explore a wide variety of art materials.
- “Environmental Color” is the term Barbara enjoys using to refer to her color design work focused on the colors that surround us in the built environment.
- The goal: creating the best possible spaces for clients’ goals of aesthetics, health, and productivity.
- Enjoy being the spaces where you live and work.
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Bringing Artistry to Environmental Color
Known as an innovator in the field of color design for the built environment, Barbara has a noteworthy design background. In addition to her personal artwork, since 1986 she has helped to create supportive environments for her clients in their homes and workplaces.
She continues her ongoing practice as an architectural color consultant for interior and exterior color choices in residential and commercial locations of all sizes. Projects include online color consulting for “long distance” as well as “on-site” consultations, both local and traveling to further locations.
In working with her color design clients, Barbara always considers any artwork from original to reproducton to family photos as elements having an important role in creating the best possible “supportive environment” for each client.
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- Exterior / Interior
- Walls, and all related products + services
- “Curb Appeal” recommendations
- Residential/Commercial
- Local and “Long-Distance”
Design Trends: Love 'em or Leave 'em
Because I’m often asked about design trends…the “latest colors,” “what’s next,” and what I think about it all…I can say that the idea and concept of “trends” is here to stay—but the actual “Trends” are, well, transitory.
There are many reasons for this, and as a former member of the notable Color Marketing Group, I did learn a lot about that fascinating aspect of design, and color design in particular. So, personally, while I enjoy seeing what is the latest thing, it is really about selling products, so in some ways, as a fad they will change often.
Our lives move so fast, so one question we can ask ourselves when considering color choices for our homes is about how often we want to be making changes to keep up with the latest thing!
How important is it? The answer is different—and equally valid—for each individual.
About Barbara's Unique Design Projects
Barbara has held a long-time fascination with textiles, traditional and modern surface design, and rug design. It was through the inspiration from these interests that she created and developed the original series of custom, hand-knotted Tibetan rugs of her own design, which she called “Silk Road Weaves.”
She continues to explore using her original artwork in unique ways, for her design clients as well as for her own enjoyment.
Ask the Artist
Barbara’s formal artistic education includes studies at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy, and the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied with Adja Yunkers and David Hockney.
She studied fine arts at the University of Minnesota, receiving her Bachelor of Arts in studio art with a concentration in painting and printmaking.
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barbara@integralcolor.com