wtf I just decided this for you one question ago.Who do you call when you can't decide on paint colors - an interior designer?
You can hire an interior designer if you have the money. I paint for a living and I can assure you that most painters won't recommend colors because if the homeowner doesn't like the result, payment is in jeopardy. Likewise, I wouldn't ask someone at the ';big box'; store paint counter. Usually that person just sells paint.
Your best bet really depends on you. You can go to a paint store and ask for a list of their top 10 selling colors. That will give you some color combinations that are currently popular. Or you can go to a site like: http://www.sherwin-williams.com/pro/pain鈥?/a>
This site carries the color schemes that Sherwin Williams believes will be most popular next year. They've been doing this for a lot of years and their people are in touch with furniture, cabinet, and countertop designers. Their color predictions are usually right on target.
The advantage is that they give you color schemes or sets of 4 to 6 colors that not only will be popular in the coming years, they are coordinated for you. All you have to do is choose a set that suits you.
buy yourself a colorwheel. then decide what you want your main color to be. then, using the colorwheel, decide what complimentary/contrasting colors you want to use.
for my walls, i like to use neutral shades...varying beiges usually.
my favorite color is blue, so then i accent with varying complimentary tones of blues, yellows, whites, browns, ... changes with the season.
my kitchen walls are bright yellow with white trim and blue accents.
the rest of my house is a pretty, neutral beige. i break up the monotony by adding splashes of color here and there.
Yes, that's when you call an interior designer. Some interior designers will also paint the room for you besides just helping you pick out the colors. Others will just help pick out the colors and decorate, then hire a crew to do the painting.
It sounds like you need an interior designer.
Some people just don't have the eye to picture a room in their mind and see what it will look like when it is finished. One thing that helps me pick out colors is I paint a 12';x12'; piece of cardboard with two coats of paint, then put a ring of painters tape on the back and place it near all of my furniture and wall hangings, etc in all the different lighting conditions it will see. And I'll leave it up for a few days. If I still like it, then I know I'm good to go.
But if you're seriously clueless with 2-3 rooms or more, you definitely need an interior designer. They can show you how to organize stuff to maximize space, utilize what you already have, and turn a room that looked OK into amazing. And sometimes a color that you would think you would never use looks great when its all said and done. And colors that you think you'd like would actually look horrible.
I saw one interior design show where the designer recommended a navy blue for a remake of their garage into a new room for the husband to watch sports and the wife to do hobbies on the other portion of the room. The designer picked out a beautiful orangish brown wood floor. But the wife didn't like the original idea of the navy blue because she thought it was too dark. Instead she wanted a lavender color or sort of a light greyish purple. The designer disagreed and rightfully so because the color she wanted went with nothing they were going to put in the room or the floor color. A dark colored paint doesn't look bad at all when the right lighting is used and contrasting colors are used against the wall. The designer was using white cabinets and light colors against the navy blue wall. The contrast makes those items pop out and grab your attention. That contrast is what makes a room go WOW. The contrast is the WOW factor. If the wife would have forced them to go with the light purple there would have been no contrast and no WOW factor and the room would have looked just BLAH. When the room was done the wife was ecstatic about the room. And she ended up loving the navy blue color she thought she would hate.
For example in my first house, I used a dark grey in one bathroom and a dark jazzy blue with a slight purple tinge in the other one. Some people thought I was somewhat crazy when I told them I was going to use dark grey for the one bathroom and they especially thought I was when they saw my blue sample for the onther one. But you have to keep in mind Contrast. I used white trim for both rooms. Both rooms had natural oak cabinets. The sinks were white marble. The bathroom hardware on the walls was chrome and porcelain for some fixtures and nickel and alibaster glass for others. The tub and toilets were white. Notice that all of those are light colors. Those light colors POP against those dark bathroom walls because of the Contrast. If you think about it, most of the stuff inside a bathroom is light colored. You want to draw your eyes to the hardware and stuff in the room and the best way to do that is if there is contrast. If there isn't, it just blends in, you overlook it and its blah.
When people walked through my bathrooms and house when I had it done painting, I had dozens of people asking me to help them decorate their houses.
For the blue bathroom, I also used a bright red and brown vase to contrast sharply against the jazzy blue and give it a modern contemporary feel. Then I put black picture frames on the wall with black and white pictures of musical instruments that I pulled off the web and printed on photo paper with my printer. One picture was a broken down piano. Another was an electric guitar with a light shining up behind it.
An interior designer can bring unique ideas like that to your rooms that will make people go WOW when they walk into them.
You lazy butt. Hubs is a painter and will tell you, nicely, if a color choice you've chosen won't work, and will suggest colors choices if asked too. Not all painters will do that. An interior designer is better trained at selecting colors. I use this previewer- http://www.benjaminmoore.com/bmpsweb/por鈥?/a> for choosing our colors. Benjamin Moore's Affinity line is AWESOME. It is more expensive, but every color 'goes' with all of the other colors in the line. Good luck! And have fun with it :)
yea exaclty. like at home depot there should be some ppl with interior design skills.
painters wont really kno.. i mean if you are lucky to have a good painter they will. but most painters jsut paint to get money.. you kno? they dont go to school for design.
yea, if you hire an interior dsigner they can help you get the right ppl to do all of the stuff for you.
See this is where the taste test comes in handy. Pour each paint into separate coffee mugs. Proceed to drink the first one, noting the texture and taste as its in your mouth. You don't want something too thick or creamy. In order to remain neutral, wash your mouth out with water and repeat the process with the second mug. If you are still confused, drink some antifreeze. Salute your Sargent!
all the painters do is paint. you have to tell them which colors. if you want advice on the colors, you hire an interior designer. or, you can ask your friends and family for their input.
You could surf on over to Rate My Space and see what other people have done and choose based on that.
I agree. Painting is a hassle. Hiring it out would be nice.
Int designers are color selection masters and usually they can recommend a painter if they do not have a staff painter
uhmm home depot
No, not unless you want to spend money on BS. Yeah, they know what they are doing but you can do the same for free. Just go to Lowe's or HD and look at their magazine rack. There are so many design mags there. Pick some and browse through them. Even go to Lowe's buy some take them home and after you are done return them. I don't agree with that but people do it all the time. And don't pay anyone to paint. It's easy to do. Get a book for that as well. My wife and I paint all the time and it looks just as good as the pros and we aren't even pros at it.
Painting materials: Painter's tape (to tape off your trim and corners, 3/8 nap roller covers, rollers and extension pole, trim brushes (for where wall to ceiling meet as well as trim and small areas), paint tray, drop cloth (to protect the floor).
Be sure to get paint stir sticks and opener which are free at the paint counter.
Edit: I see. Well others have already wrote what I was going to so I won't repeat it. Good luck!
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