![]() Undertones don’t always show up on a single paint chip, but can be very obvious in a large space of the same color. When a gray looks blue on the wall, it’s because there is a small amount of blue in the paint. Spoiler alert: a true gray does not exist! Every gray has an undertone of either purple, green, blue, or a combination of those. Repose Gray by SW in a North-facing room of our last home. Watch for undertonesĮver pick a gray, only to discover it looks like a blue on the wall?! It’s so important to take multiple paint chips home and view it in natural ( day time, lights off) and artificial ( night time, lights on) light wherever you plan on using it. you’ve only viewed your paint chip from a horizontal perspective (see the tip above).fluorescent department store lighting casts a brighter glow on the paint chip than the lighting in your home.Paint usually looks a shade darker than you anticipate once its on the wall It will look a bit darker then when you hold it flat out. It’s natural to look at a paint chip horizontally, but unless you’re painting your floor, the color will look different (brighter, or lighter), from how it will look on your wall.įor a more accurate picture of how the paint would look on a wall, hold the paint chip vertically in front of you. ![]() I didn’t want to go through the hassle of painting everything again, so we lived with the color for 7 years until we moved to our second house, but I determined to never again paint anything based off a little chip that good under artificial light!Ī few moves and opportunities to make a home our own later, I feel much more confident about choosing a whole house paint color scheme that feel inviting, timeless, and cohesive.īelow, you’ll find a few things I tried to keep in mind when choosing the colors for our new home! Hold your paint chip vertically Yellow, red, blue, green – that house had it all! Every room felt disconnected from the other, and I couldn’t shop my house to switch around decor pieces as they were too thematic.Īpple decor from the kitchen looked awfully out of place in our Nautical themed bedroom, and while Behr’s Arizona yellow looked beautiful under Home Depot’s florescent lights, it leaned orange in our North facing living room, adjacent to our rusty red kitchen! I learned a few “rules” about choosing paint colors the hard way, when I painted our very first home every color under the sun! Since our building permits took so much longer than we anticipated, I had a great deal of extra time to mull over undertones and shades, and collect samples from all the major paint manufactures including, Benjamin Moore, Sherwin Williams, Sico, Valspar, Behr, Pantone, Farrow & Ball, Glidden, and more! Learning things the hard way In this post, I share our whole house paint color scheme, and the thought process behind why I picked the colors I did!Ĭhoosing paint colors can give some people ( like my hubby □ ) ulcers, but it’s one of those things that I find fun and therapeutic!
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