Considerations For Choosing Interior Paint Colors May 7, 2008
Changing the color of your walls is the least expensive, yet most powerful way to change the look of a room. However, the process can be daunting! If you have ever transformed a white room by painting it a rich color, the end result is worth the often lengthy emotional process.
Here’s how it’s likely to go:
You are flipping through your favorite magazine or you attend a home sales party and see a beautiful room that remotely resembles something in your home. AND YOU WANT IT.
You decide to paint. So, off to the paint store you go……..Being the prepared consumer that you are, you go straight over to the 1000 sample chip chart and hold up your magazine to match the color. Funny though, nothing quite looks the same. Hint: The problem is, the glossy paper from the magazine is showing a photograph of a color which is ink on paper, much the same as the traditional paint chip you are looking at in the store on the massive display rack. If you are the person that comes in knowing for sure that you can remember in your mind exactly what color you saw and exactly what color you want, you find out quickly after looking at the big bad display rack that you have completely lost the mental image.
Never fear, you can do this! So, you grab a couple of samples and start narrowing them down. At this point, some people are so sure and so excited that they order a gallon and wait patiently, (tapping their foot the whole time) while the paint is being custom made. Others are still not sure, so they order a quart in case the color doesn’t work. (more…)
