Sally Fretwell - Premier Interior Decorator for Greater Tampa, Florida

Open Your Vista

Love Your Home

Create a Feeling

Love your Home

Utilize your Floor Plan

Consult with Sally on Color and Space

Bring in the Beachy Blues

With Sally's own "Coastal Colors"

Enjoy Your Outside Space

Love your Outdoor Colors

Bring the "Outside" into Your Home

Express Your Life Style

Maximize Your Small Spaces

Combine Tones and Textures

Sally Fretwell, Interior Decorator

Sally Fretwell, Interior Designer and Paint Color Consultant in Tampa, Florida

Architectural psychologist, Sally Fretwell, will lead you down the path to make the ordinary extraordinary. She will encourage you to explore the idea to make your living space your own. She gives you ideas and tools to discover what you are looking for and to know when you find it. Using both personal and professional experience, Sally will give you the benefit of her 35 years of successful design consulting for color, space, and furnishings. Sally can offer simple examples of how to define your home, office, or business with the use of lighting, color and design. She helps you understand that having the home of your dreams is not about being wealthy, but having a wealth of vision, creativity, and intuition. Sally as an Interior Decorator, can show you how to make your home or business a place that rejuvenates, recharges, and lifts your spirits.

Sally’s Experience

Sally has consulted both Nationally and Internationally for over 35 years. She has authored 7 books with one “on the way”. Sally has designed her own paint lines with her own special formulas and has developed over 350 paint colors for individual clients as well as for one of the largest paint companies in the world. Take a moment and click on any of the pictures below to find out more about Sally’s expertise.

Paint Color Consultant

Sally often formulates special paint colors for clients who have unique color and lighting situations. Sally has formulated well over 250 paint colors for her clients. Click on the Paint Color Design menu under “COLORS” to learn more.

35 years Experience in Paint Color and design
Over 250 Commercial Paint Colors Designed by Sally
Paint and Texture Consulting for Commercial and Residential Clients
Consultant on Paint Color, Hues, Textures, Titration, Saturation, Light and Color Profusion

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Sally’s Important Tips Before You Start to Paint!

We have had so much positive response to this section that we are adding a whole new page of Sally’s Tips Before You Paint. Take a look at these 6 tips while we are getting many more tips on the new “Tips Page”.

Sally’s New Paint Tip Page

Before You Hire a Painter

Paint and Painters

98% of painters here in Florida will only use the paint brand they have a discount with…

Tip #1

Why Fan Decks Don't Work

Color Samples Are Ink Not Paint

One of the biggest problems I have with new clients is the paint color they just put up looks nothing like the color chip or fan deck color they ordered.

Tip #2

Digital Color Matchers

Color Mathing Your Paint Sample

You brought a piece or sample of the paint that was on your wall or trim into the paint store so they could match it. And sure enough they had a perfect match for you and you buy their perfect match except…

Tip #3

Try the New Paint First

Everyone Wants to Get Started

So you immediately have your painter through the paint on the wall and at the end of the day all the walls and ceiling are painted EXCEPT…

Tip #4

Ceilings Are Important

Your Ceiling is Very Important!

Almost no one thinks much about it but your ceiling paint is far more important than you might think. Everyone always uses the same flat bright white ceiling paint but WAIT JUST A MINUTE…..

Tip #5

Preperation Rollers Brushes

Preperation is Everything

We have all heard it before but Preparation and the right paint tools is where it all begins. You thought it was tough enough just to arrive at the right colors and the right paint texture. Now the real work begins……..

Tip #6

Sally’s Coastal Colors

Their are lot’s of paint colors on this site but take a moment and look at some very special colors that Sally has developed over the years. These are all her own special formulas representing thousand of hours of her design effort along with over 300 personally designed colors.