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Choosing a Paint Color for Your House It's the quickest and easiest way to transfer your sense of style and personality to your home. Paint is every designer's fundamental design tool. Whether its mood or ambience, efficiency or space, a fresh coat of paint is transformative and exciting. Ready to get started? Great but remember to not let your zeal and impatience result in a paint shade you'll live to regret no matter how perfect it looks on the paint chip at the home improvement store. Get a sample at least a week ahead of time and put it on a test area in your home so you can gauge how it looks in your setting and lighting. While we're at it, here's some other things to keep in mind
What's your time worth? Hire a handyman for painting or other household repair tasks
Historic Authenticity: For an older home, hire a professional painter to recreate the house's original color or refer to historic color charts to find a color.
Neighborhood Context: Select a house paint color that is compatible with the colors of the houses next door. Existing Colors: Consider the existing colors of the roof, brick, mortar, siding, doors, windows and railings; find a paint color that is complementary to these elements. Interior Colors: Use the colors of your furnishings and interior colors to guide you in the selection of the exterior house paint colors. Accents: In addition to the colors you paint your home remember to select accent colors for trim and details such as shutters, moldings and columns. Darks and Lights: Keep in mind how dark and light paint colors make your house appear; light paint makes a house seem larger and dark paint makes the house seem smaller. Durability: Intense and dark paint colors will fade and can be difficult to touch up in the future. Sheen: Decide on the sheen of paint - glossy, semi-gloss or flat. Color Deceptions: Test paint colors in one area of your house before buying gallons of paint.
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