St. Louis Painting Company Tips on choosing a paint color

Tips on choosing a paint color

St. Louis Painting Company

Your going to paint a room in your home and you’re ready to get started. Or are you? Before you start putting paint on the walls, check out these tips on choosing a color. Carter Custom Painting can help you choose a color also.

 Choosing a Paint Color

This is the is the hardest part. What’s most important is to find one that will create a desired mood and make you happy.

 

  • If you really don’t have any idea about what color to paint try pulling a color out a piece of art or furniture that’s in the room. It’s a guaranteed way to find a complimentary color.
  • Take home several paint chips and see how they look in the room. Hold them up to the furniture, floors, artwork, cabinets, and anything else that’s already in the room. Try to narrow it down to three or four choices.
  • Get a small sample pot of each color and paint a large square on the wall.
  • Watch how the color changes as the sun moves across the sky and the amount of light in the room changes.
  • let it dry and see how it looks with the lighting in the room. Depending on your light  bulbs the color could look different.
  • Look for inspiration everywhere. What is the view like from your windows? If you have a tree that you love, draw your eye there by choosing a bold color on that wall, in either a similar color or a contrasting color. Don’t be afraid to be bold!
  • What color should my ceilings be? White is the safe choice: it’s bright, and it makes the ceiling look higher.Ceilings-If you do opt to stick with white, though, here’s a tip I find very helpful: Add a few drops of your wall color to the can of ceiling paint. This tints the white just enough to make for a good transition.
  • On the interior of the home, the color environment is created by the overall appearance of the walls and woodwork you will be painting, the furnishings in the room, and the hues in adjacent areas. To make the best color choices, take in the whole picture.
  • Likewise, when doing exterior painting, be sure to take into account the fixed colors of your home: brick, stonework, and the roof color, for example. The most flattering color treatments will be those that work well with these existing elements. Consider choosing a color that will pick up the color of a non-painted area—the brown that appears in your brick or a green highlight from your stonework, for example.
  •  check out sherwin williams color visualizer…..http://www.sherwin-williams.com/homeowners/color/try-on-colors/color-visualizer/
  • check out this chart to help you decide…..http://www.realsimple.com/home-organizing/decorating/decorating-tips-techniques/choosing-paint-color

    Play Up Monochromatic Schemes

    Think one color is boring? Create bold or subtle variations within one color group with contrasting paint finishes. For example, use closely related colors, or try a single color in different finishes, for walls and trim in one space.

    Add Depth With Decorative Finishes

    Transform flat, dull walls into interesting and personal spaces with subtle or dramatic visual texture and broken color. Burnished mineral/metal finishes and layered colored glazes add depth. Some examples of softly reflective metals are mica, copper, pewter, bronze and, of course, antiqued silver and gold.

    Choose Different Paint Finishes

    A single color used on walls and trim takes on new significance when applied in different finishes. For example, wall and trim colors can remain the same hue, but use an eggshell (matte and less reflective) finish on walls and a satin or semigloss on trim. The color will appear slightly different on each surface. It’s a good way to create a cohesive look in rooms with many windows and doors, and relatively little wall area.

    FAIL-SAFE COLOR CHOICES

    If “safety first” is your motto and you simply want your home to look neat and freshly painted, there are certain color treatments that will look good on almost any home. A near-surefire approach when doing interior painting is to paint the walls a neutral color like beige and the ceiling and trim white. In fact, if you keep the trim and ceiling white, a wide range of colors will look attractive on your walls.

    A St. louis Painting Company that is one of the best in Missouri!

    Communication

    We listen to every detail you want accomplished on your Exterior Painting project! Once we know exactly what you are looking for from St. Louis’s most pristine Painting Company, we will give you honest recommendations and clearly explain what to expect from the services you select. When the contract is signed,and work is being performed the project manager is only a phone call or text away till it is completed. Most the time I am on the job helping complete it or supervising.

    Cost

    A quote that seems too good to be true probably is. But there’s still no need to sacrifice quality products and services for affordability. At Carter Custom Painting, you get only the best high quality products and top notch service at a fair price. If a painting company gives you a low price they are going to be rushing through the job trying to make a profit. This leads to mistakes, and in the painting industry these mistakes are messy. So avoid low end companies or you might need a cleaning company.

    High Quality Workmanship

    It takes more than just a fresh coat of paint to make your home or business look like new. Our employees know how to properly prepare a surface for painting, understanding that many surfaces require different products for a long lasting finish. We even do custom carpentry, wood replacement, drywall repair, texture matching, and artistic work, creativity is our speciality.

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