Which colors will you pick for your walls, frames and doors?
With a personalised color plan, you’ll enjoy your colors much longer.
This is how you can get started
• Look at the colors of your floor, furniture, curtains and other stuff carefully. Which colors will fit, which ones are compatible? Take photos of your interior and from what stands out.
• Which colors or color combinations appeal to you? Collect photos from magazines. Take a walk and take pictures of flowers, trees, facades of other houses, advertisings and cars in your favourite colors. Visit a museum and take a snapshot of a painting you like.
• Now, from all the photos you have taken you can create your own color pallet.
Ask for advice based on color cards
Your paint specialist will have color cards. Take them home and look at them under artificial lights, at different times during the day. Daylight in the morning differs from light in the afternoon. Bring the color cards back to the shop and ask for advice from what you’ve learned.
Test it
It’s hard to imagine the color on the sample onto a larger area. What you can do, is to paint a piece of separate wallpaper in your preferred color. Hold the paper up the wall at different times of the day. Do you like the color throughout the entire day?
Tips for choosing a color
• Color can connect or separate spaces. If you paint a room and a suite in a lighter and a darker color, then you will experience these two rooms as two separate ones. If you rather have one open space, then choose one color.
• You can also create one area with different colors. Choose colors in similar black and white patterns. Or you could use the same light or darker accent colors in both rooms.
• Colder, blue colors have an expanding effect which makes a room seem bigger.
• A darker wall will make a room look smaller.
• A darker ceiling will lower the room.
• Long, opposite walls in a darker color bring the idea of a small space.
