Choosing Interior Paint Colors

Painter aside... choosing Paint colors are the biggest decisions once you have decided to paint.

Most repaints are after 4 year or longer, especially for the DIY because most people just don’t want to paint again.

Because we realize this we should be careful to take our time and choose the perfect color that will be lasting and enjoyed.

If you have furniture or items that are similar in color, you may want to consider something that goes along with it. You do not want these colors to clash. Contrasting colors can go together, but you will need to use caution in your consideration.

Many Professional Paint Retailers have an experienced color expert on staff that will help you with this by going over your fabrics and pictures of the room and the details right in the store.

Since Color has the ability for setting the desired mood, plan on them asking you some questions like what is the room going to be used for? Is it to be formal or fun? By looking at the furniture and other items in the room plus photo's and your responses they will give you some recommendations.

So if you have swatches of the fabrics get them together for the process. Take some pictures of the overall room and bring it with you to the paint store, even include the rooms that are immediately connected.

Natural tones and conservative colors are great for lasting designs while bright fluorescent colors usually become those that desire change.

Once you have narrowed the selection to 1 or more, buy a sample sized batch of the color. I recommend buying a few 2’x 3’ pieces of white cardboard (and can be moved around the room) for applying the testing samples on, or you can paint a small area right on the wall for comparison, but I don’t recommend directly on the wall.

Now let’s get a little advanced and this makeover will look like a Professional Decorator executed the project. Fist consider painting the ceiling with color other than white, even if or especially if you paint the walls white. The second way for some added spice is to paint an accent wall.

Paint Works has a full service of bringing the decorators and color planning tools right to your home when your ready for your project to take off.

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