How to Choose the Right Paint Color the First Time!
">Top Tips for Picking the Perfect Paint Color
How to Choose the Right Paint Color the First Time!
How to Choose the Right Paint Color the First Time!
">Picking paint colors can actually be super complicated.
Have you ever gone to the paint store and looked at that wall of paint options?
It’s totally overwhelming!
Then you get home; put up the swatch and that perfect gray you chose turns out to be baby blue in your room!
Now, being a trained interior designer, I can get all “look at the undertone” and “make sure you check the hue”, but when it comes right down to it you guys don’t want to hear all the designer gobbly goop.
So, here are my top tips for choosing the perfect paint color for your home, in layman’s terms.
Don’t choose the paint color first.
If you have an inspiration piece it helps.
Do you have a throw pillow or a painting that you love the colors in?
Hold the paint swatches up against the piece to choose.
Or, you can even take it to the paint store and have them color match a color from it.
Simple!
How to Choose the Right Paint Color the First Time!
">Check the full paint swatch that the color is from.
The top color on the swatch is the lightest. If you scroll down to the bottom color on the swatch you’ll see the darker version of that color. So, if you choose what you think is going to be the perfect gray, you can look it up on the full swatch and glance down to see it’s darker version. If the darker color is a navy, then chances are when you paint that gray on your walls it could have a blue hint to it in certain lights.
The same goes for every color.
If you pick a cream color and are afraid that it’s going to look yellow in your home, scroll down to the bottom of the swatch and see what the darkest version of it is.
Easy!
EXAMPLE -
See this perfectly pleasant gray called Starry Night by Sherwin Williams?
How to Choose the Right Paint Color the First Time!
">It looks like a nice neutral gray, right?
But, scroll down the card…
How to Choose the Right Paint Color the First Time!
">…and you’ll see that in certain spaces it could look lavender becauuuuuse all the way down at the bottom is…
…Majestic Purple!
How to Choose the Right Paint Color the First Time!
">Consider the lighting in a space.
If your room gets full, direct sun than any paint color in that room is going to look warmer, more yellow. If you have fluorescent or halogen lighting in a room, colors are going to look cooler, less yellow.
That’s why you can’t go to a friend’s house and fall in love with their paint color and think it’ll look the same in your house.
You NEED TO TEST the swatch; in the room it’s going to be in, when it’s sunny, when it’s cloudy, during the day and at night. That way you’ll see what it looks like IN that room, under every lighting situation.
In the picture below ALL of the rooms are Sea Salt by Sherwin Williams.
See the difference?!
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Consider the flow from one room to the next
You have to look at the paint colors for your entire home and how they look together.
Chances are you can see from one room to the next. You want colors that look good together when going from room to room.
One way to achieve this is to choose different shades of one color from one paint swatch. You could do your kitchen in the lightest, your adjacent dining room one color down, your adjacent family room in the third color down and so on. It’s the easiest way to give your home a cohesive look and know that the colors in your home will blend well together.
How to Choose the Right Paint Color the First Time!
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