House Paint Color Samples

Posted onNovember 03, 2011 - 1:51 am by Admin | 0 Comments

Answer by RoxanneGo to a store with paint samples, grab some colors you like. Take them home and put the sample with the bed sets and see what you like. That’s what is important. Hope this helps. Roxanne

Answer by leslieI would suggest a gold color on your master bedroom walls. Obviously, you have a great sense of color and coordination. Let your wall color recede and pull red into the bedspread/floor/pillows. If you can find accent pillows which incorporates a touch of blue, it would be stunning.

Short answer? "Blindly."
Not that I'm blind. Why would I care about paint color if I were?
Reading blogs like this, I know what kinds of colors I like, and most of the time, I know what kind of light the room I'm painting gets.
My most recent paint job was in my new basement apartment. I knew that it wouldn't get a lot of light - the bedroom has one window (and we've redone the window since painting 7 weeks ago), and the living room only has artificial light. I have a friend who works at a paint shop, and I said "I want a sunny beige in the living room, and a warm grey in the bedroom." I decided on light-colored neutrals because a) it's a basement, and 2) I'm a renter and wanted the space to be a blank canvas for me and whatever happens next. The colors turned out lovely, and I can't wait to see what the living room looks like with the new lighting!
The time before this was painting my old bedroom at my Mom's house. I had very specific colors in mind for the room - cool and springy green for the walls, blonde wood, beige and white for the accents with occasional sprigs of pink. So we went to get paint and - on a whim! - picked out a pumpkin orange! And it's lovely. I still have my collection of Breyer horses there, and they're well-accented by the warm pumpkin-pie-colored walls. The room is so warm and cozy now - a cooler color might not have worked. My mom and sister ended up painting her (my sister's) old room in green, and it works well for her south-facing window.
And then we get to how we're picking colors for Mom's room. She also is on the south side, and has a lot of earth-toned accents. Hers is the only unpainted room in the whole house, and she isn't huge on repeated colors. My sister and I are redoing her room this year, and we thought, "You know what would be super-feminine and gorgeous in that room? GREY." Except Mom's more of an earth-toned girl. We spent hours on various paint websites before finding the perfect two tones of grey that are still grey, but with just enough stone and slate in them that they'll fit in perfect with what she has.


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