Choosing wall colour paints can get tricky – Follow the quick and easy steps to pick the perfect wall colour combination for your house
We all feel excited on thought of a freshly painted home, it’s so awesome. The cleam stain free walls, freshly coated with spotless colours of paint. But, before we get our house painted, there is one hurdle – choosing the house painting colours. Wall colour combinations can get tricky with so many beautiful irresistible looks in a typical wall paint colours catalogue. I am sure you all remember the popular advertisement from few years ago, ‘mera walla blue’. Yes, I know what you are thinking – it is always a tough task to find that one shade which is your favourite.
Picked for you: Wall colour combination for living room
You see, in our high spirits we tend to choose colours that are bolder and brighter; but maybe too loud to suit our routine sense of aesthetics. Choosing house painting designs and color is like dining at the boffeut of the finest restaurant, but with your limited appetite. You are bound to plate all the delicacies, and then later, stretch yourself into overeating. Same way, choosing a wall paint colour in an excited elevated state of mind can make you regret later. But then there is always a way out, and here, I got the best way to select the one wall colour combination you will love for all the years to come.
1. Do some soul searching
Colours inspire the best in us. Actually, we like few colours better than others as it’s a reflection or an extension of our personality. Rarely will you find people who have both blue and red as their favourite colour. Now, I assume you know yours. So, head to the paint store to pick two to three shades of your all-time favourite colours for some patch testing. Buying a liter of each will do the job for now.
2. Patch test time
Pick a significant wall in your room, and paint 2ft by 2ft of patches for each wall colour. Make sure the colour patches are at or around your eye level. You may not have noticed, but the wall area below your eye level mostly gets covered with furniture. And the one above is beyond your sight’s comfort zone.
3. Live with your selections
Live with them, morning to evening, and through the night. Wake up to see the colours glow in morning sunshine; and daze out with setting sun. Appreciate the ambience of your colored wall patches under the light fittings. Repeat for at least three to four days.
4. Set the scene
Once you have the wall colour combinations in patches, bring in the furniture, the wall hangings and floor lamps. Basically, complete your décor picture; then review the colour choices. Maybe you have a pink bed, so a white or blue wall will bring a contrast; while a pastel yellow or matching pink shade will be a subtle style.
5. Time to settle
Now almost after a week of staring and glaring on the colours patches, it’s time to choose. Trust me; till now, you will already have a preference. Be confident about your liking. And just in case you find yourself as confused as ever, don’t worry. Let’s me share the insider secret with you. And the funny bit is that you may have already heard of this before, maybe in your school years.
The fail-proof trick, right from the interior designer’s table, is to use a colour wheel. Yes, it is that simple. Colours have a significant influence on us and on how we feel. Thankfully, in the end, there is a basic science to explain all the psychological and emotional pulls of colours – the colour wheel. It is the only aid you need to crack the mystery of wall colour paints.
Now go indulge yourself in a custom-made palette of your favourite wall colour paints, because there is no fun in being white and black.
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