Painting Your Home - Choosing Colors Online
Jul 26th, 2007 by Jody McLeod
Have you been putting off painting that kitchen/bathoom/bedroom because you know how hard it can be to choose colors?
There have been so many times that I have picked a color (after agonizing over it for a week or so), bought the paint, slapped it on the walls, stepped back to admire my handywork and heard myself say “Yuck! It looks like baby poo/swamp muck/a 60’s flashback!”
Well, now there is help at hand. Before you go and plop down that $20-$45 for a can of paint you can research your perfect color online, and even test them in cyberspace rooms. Many paint manufacturers have small paint sample packets that you can test on your walls, but choices are limited and they often run out of the most popular colors. However, with the online paint selection tools you can choose a ready-made color pallete or let the artist in you go wild by trying new color combinations.
Here are some the tools I have found online; some require you to register to use them, but are really fun. If you know of any more that I don’t have listed here, please let me know and I will post them.
- Behr Color Explore
- Sherwin Williams Paint Visualizer
- Dutch Boy Color Simplicty Tool
- Bob Villa Paint Designer
- Benjamin Moore Personal Color Viewer
- Lowes’ Paint online
In addition, here is great Colorcharts.org database (powered by CBN) of manufacturer’s colors. It has over 80 paint manufacturers listed and all of their digitally certified colors. If you have a colorchip from a paint company that is not in your area, you can find that color in their database, ask it to match the color, and it will tell you all othe colors that match it from other paint manufacturers.
Photo by Ratnesh
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