First of all, you need to decide the budget for painting your house. After you settle down with a ballpark figure in your mind, make some more things clear for yourself. What is the end effect you would desire? Do you want some color eccentricities or do you wish to stick to the conventional colors? Once you decide this, go to the next step.
Explore a few basics about the paints and colors. There are many paint brands and types available. Choose
any brand that fits your budget. You will also have to decide the type of finish. You have Matte, Satin, Gloss, Semigloss and Eggshell finishes to choose from.
Finalizing the color scheme is the most important step that will decide the complete look of your decor. This needs to be done very carefully. The information given below will help ease the task for you.
There are several things you need to consider before you settle down on any particular color scheme.
The room to be painted and its correlation with the rest of the house
The existing color schemes in the house
The total area of the room
The natural lighting in that room
The contrived lighting in that room
The existing elements in the room -- for instance, whether the room has stone or brick finishing
The existing furniture in the room
The furniture to be installed in that room
The existing fabric, furnishings, and carpets in the room
The fabric furnishings and carpets that you plan to incorporate in the room
After you have decided the color scheme for one room, you have to do it for the entire house. Be sure if you are going to:
Use just one color consistently throughout
Use different colors for different rooms
Use correlated colors for different rooms
Use different colors for different sections of the room
Use different colors to provide accents to windows, shutters, doors, crown molds, chair rails, columns, etc.
Use different shades of the same color to adorn parts of the room
Make a motley; experiment with shades of the same color for windows, shutters, doors, wall trimmings, moldings, columns, balustrades, etc.
Dark colors require more maintenance than light colors.
Dark colors fade sooner than light colors.
Dark colors absorb more heat than light colors.
Actual colors are slightly different from what you see in color swathes or online color samples.
The total effect of the color depends on the extent of the area to be painted. A color scheme that looks great in a large spacious room, for instance, may not necessarily exude the same feel in a smaller, less spacious room.
There is yet another breed of paint known as the Eggshell paint. The best description of this type could be not too glossy yet not too matte; just subtle sheen. Eggshell has the potential to lend an element of vastness to your spaces.
Ditch the color palette! Look around to get more creative ideas like the ones illustrated below.
Just about anything that catches your eye can be grist for the mill. Collect samples of different colors, patterns, and textures. Try to put together different or unusual combinations that you wouldn't normally go for, and see how they mix and match.
Add these tips to your knowledge bank, dunk the paintbrush into the color palette, and see your space deliver more than what you expect!
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