#341: PRO TALK With Color Expert Sue Wadden
The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
Fine Homebuilding Magazine
4.8 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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In this Pro-Talk podcast, Patrick talks to Sue Wadden, director of color marketing at Sherwin-Williams about how paint colors get their names, how color trends emerge, and what comes after a decade of gray.
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| 1:04.9 | Welcome to the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast, a regular discussion with building industry |
| 1:09.1 | professionals. This is Senior Editor Patrick |
| 1:11.5 | McComb. Today I'm joined by Sue Wadden, Director of Color Marketing at Sherwin-William |
| 1:15.5 | Williams. You can find the Fine Home Building ProTob podcast and the original Fine Home Building |
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| 1:31.0 | So Sue, you have a very interesting job. |
| 1:36.5 | Can you please tell me what you do for Sherwin-Williams? Sure. I am the director of color marketing, |
| 1:42.4 | which is a job that is as cool as the title sounds. I'll say that. I often say that I have the best job at Sherman Williams, only because I'm 100% |
| 1:45.9 | focused on color. So whether I'm talking to designers or home builders or homeowners or |
| 1:52.5 | DIYers or whatever that might be as it's related to color, my job is to make sure they have |
| 1:58.8 | the information that they need to be successful. |
| 2:08.3 | So I've been doing this a long time. It's my 23rd year at Sherwin, and it's been 100% focused on color. So I really love what I do. Can you tell me about your background? It seems like a very |
| 2:13.4 | niche job. How does one become qualified to do what you do? |
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