With diverse colour options, choosing the best paint for your home is not an easy task. Besides, when you look at the various shade options, it may even confuse you. That’s the reason we thought of coming out with some practical tips to make your colour selection easier!

1. Select an Appropriate Paint for a Small Room

For small rooms, you need to select paint colours with high reflectivity – for instance, white, snow white, pearl white or off-white. Paints with Light Reflectance Value (LRV) can reflect and rebound natural light around the room, creating an illusion of more space.

Tips to Paint a Small Living Area

A neutral design theme can infuse light and space into a small living area. Besides, yellow is blended thoughtfully to brighten the overall look.

Some Colours Ideas for a Small Space or Room:

• Pastel and neutrals colours are ideal for creating space and light.
• Mixing white and light pink or light green are apt for creating more space in style. Combining lime and white can also do the trick.
• Light blue and light green can infuse spaciousness, tranquillity and cool vibes.
• Ocean-foam greens match well with yellows, creams and greys.

Moreover, you can use different shades of the same colour to emphasise different sections of the house.

2. White

Selecting the white colour can get intimidating, as there are different shades of white available on the market. Take clues from the design of your room, lighting and overall style to choose the best shade of white. The amount of natural light the room receives is an excellent way to select the right paint. You can make a dark room look luminous using warmer shades of white. And cool shades of white can make a brightly lit room tranquil.

• Warm shades of white can create a natural and earthy feel to a home – a favourite choice for Art Deco and country style homes; comprising cosy pink, yellow and peach undertones.
• Cool shades of white are fabulous and used for recreating a modish or ultra-modern look in homes. If you want to achieve a minimalist look, you don’t have to look beyond cool shades of white – subtle beige or grey undertones.

3. Grey

Like white, grey is a highly sought-after choice for walls, and they are also available in different shades.

• Light greys are soft and radiant, paired with a pastel or neutral palette, and are the best to impart tranquillity to a room. Light greys are the best alternative for whites.
• Dark greys can help to make a bold statement. Pair exceedingly well with bright and bold colours – dark greys are influential colours for a feature wall.
• Warm greys are ideal for a room with minimal lighting and add warmth and comfort to a room. They harmonise a neutral palette and do wonders for a south-facing room.
• Cool greys lend character to a room by imparting it a clean and crisp feel. They have blue undertones and match well with teal, turquoise and navy. Cool greys are best suited to modern and contemporary designs and for creating an impression of spaciousness.

4. Harmonise Wall & Floor

The floors are the base of your home. A practical way to find the best paint for your home is to harmonise the walls to the floor. So how to match wall colours to hardwood floors.

[A] Light Hardwood Floor

Light hardwood is luminous, breezy, and graceful. It can enlarge the dimensions of a room and create an ambience of space and flow.

• White looks beautiful on any floor, and they look brilliant in light hardwood floors. White paints are accessible in diverse shades, so you don’t have to limit yourself to the standard white.
• Grey can be an option too! When you prefer white paint on the walls, you can choose soft grey paint to lend the room some distinctness. Search for grey with blue, green or pink undertones for a more elegant look.
• Neutral colours are ideal for creating space and light. Select a high-gloss or gloss paint to expose the shine on the floors.

[B] Dark Hardwood Floor

Dark hardwood floors better suit larger rooms, as the darker colour can unify the room space. Light and bright colours can harmonise dark hardwood floors. Choose earthy tones or white or cream or dark beige to achieve a stylish look.

[C] Carpet

Interior decor is all about creating visually pleasing spaces through symmetry. Symmetry is created by harmonising colours in the same scheme. For instance, a green-toned carpet will match with a light green or white wall.

5. Lighting

How much natural light a room receives can help you to choose the paint colour. The fundamental rule is that we can only identify colour shades if there is adequate light. For instance, if you paint a room with dark colour, it wouldn’t reflect any light, and as a result, you’ll get a darker room.

Colour Selection Tips:

• A bright room that gets a lot of natural light can look beautiful with any colour. Here, white paint may look too simple, but it will look good anyway.
• Avoid painting white into a dark room that doesn’t receive any natural light as the white will appear like a dull grey.
• If you have a south-facing dark room, then choose bright colours, as they will look better!
• And select deep paint colour to create an intimate space.

6. Test Swatches & Sample Pots

Visit your local paint or hardware store and get free sample swatches and sample pots. Also, get samples of surrounding shades such as lighter, darker, warmer and cooler colours. Remember to collect a selection of whites for your trims. Once you’re back home and ready to test it out –

• Tape the swatches to the walls and look at the colours and shades in artificial lighting and natural light. Lighting affects how the paint appears, so it is vital to look at the paint colours under daylight and artificial lighting. Accordingly, narrow down your paint options to five or four colours. Now try to match the white with these colours to ensure you have selected the right colours to paint your home.
• Using the sample pots, paint each of the five or four colours onto a sheet of A4 white cards. As per the shade you have selected, you may need more than one coat.

Moreover, tape the swatches onto the walls and live with them for few days. You will notice how each swatch changes with the lighting – it helps you eliminate the paint colours and assist in choosing the best colours to paint your house.

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