Considerations for Choosing an Interior Color Scheme

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Joanne Trealoff, the co-owner and CFO of Eclipse RV, has enjoyed a varied background. After studying at UCLA, UC Riverside, and Santa Monica College, Joanne Trealoff spent nearly 10 years as the president of the interior design consultancy Results by Design before she established her current company.

Choosing the best color scheme for an interior space seems intimidating, but it can be easier than you think. Here are a few things to think about when you pick the colors for your space:

- Consider the lighting.

The amount of light dramatically affects the way a color looks during the day. If you have a space with plenty of light, you can use bold or dark hues to create coziness. Use light colors for spaces with limited lighting.

- Pick a color from the largest pattern.

Look at the pattern of the largest object you plan to use in the space. This may be a patterned area rug or a colorful accent chair. Usually, the colors in this pattern appeal to you, or you wouldn’t keep the item. So, you can take colors from this pattern to create a color scheme for the room.

- Try a neutral background.

Choose a neutral color for the walls, and implement other colors in various items around the room. This may include rugs, pillows, and window treatments. If you get tired of these colors, replacing the objects is cheaper and easier than painting the room a different color every few months.

A Backgrounder of the BBB Rating

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Business executive Joanne Trealoff serves as the vice president and CFO of Eclipse RV Inc., a toy hauler and travel trailer manufacturer she co-founded with her husband Dallen. Under the leadership of Joanne Trealoff, the company was awarded the A+ rating by the Better Business Bureau (BBB).

BBB is an online platform where businesses (sellers and buyers) trust each other because they all adhere to a certain set of business ethos. BBB has developed a rating system to represent its opinion on how likely a particular business would interact with its clients. Using useful information obtained about the business and customer complaints publicly available, BBB rates the business. It is to be noted, however, that BBB does not use customer reviews in computing its ratings.

Assigning letters to represent its ratings (F being the lowest and A+ the highest), the letters tell how confident the public had been of the business – how trustworthy it has been operating and how it has exercised good faith in addressing its clients’ concerns.

Using a formula proprietary to BBB, the ratings are computed based on 16 factors. The objective information gathered plus the actual incidences of how the business behaved are verified and evaluated. The 16 factors are weighted based on BBB’s assessment of how important a specific factor is to the business being rated.

Cycling as Therapy

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Accomplished businesswoman Joanne Trealoff owns the recreational vehicle manufacturer Eclipse RV Inc., where she also serves as vice president and CFO. When not working Joanne Trealoff gets onto her bike and pursues her love for cycling.

Cycling can provide a cyclist with many physical benefits: low blood pressure, improved cholesterol level, well-managed weight, and many others. Psychologists also recommend cycling for a structurally and functionally better brain. Scientists who have conducted studies with cyclists on stationary bikes concluded on the findings in the subsequent paragraphs.

First, cycling improves the brain’s connectivity. Some patients with schizophrenia were engaged in a six-month therapeutic program on stationary bikes. The patients’ brains were scanned as they pedaled the bike and the results revealed that the white matter in their brains increased over time.

Second, cycling increases the brain’s BDNF levels. BDNF stands for brain-derived neurotropic factor, a protein that helps in maintaining existing brain neurons and in producing new ones. BDNF is found to be helpful in warding off some neurologic conditions such as Alzheimer’s. Patients who were placed in stationary bikes for a three-month therapeutic program showed progress in their BDNF levels.

Finally, cycling powers the brain’s reasoning and memory. A study that involved men pedaling stationary bikes for 30 minutes took cognitive tests before and after pedaling. The results revealed that these men got high scores in reasoning, memory and planning. Also, these men finished their tests faster when compared with performance in previous tests.