As spring approaches, it seems everyone gets excited for exterior as well as interior painting projects. Adding color to your home can help to change the overall feel of the space. Here are some questions I ask when doing a color consult. The answers to these questions are a starting point of selecting the best colors for your interior.
1. How do you want to feel in the space?
2. Are you trying to recreate a feeling from a vacation? If so, what?
3. How do you plan to use the space?
4. If you’re entertaining in the space, how often and how many do you accommodate?
5. If I were to peek in your closet or china cabinet, what kind of colors and patterns would I see?
So I mull over these answers and consider them when choosing colors. For instance, if you were trying to recreate your trip to France, I would consider reds, golds, blacks and greens. If your closet is full of neutral colored clothes like blacks, brown and grays, I may consider sticking with a neutral or monochromatic color scheme. If you throw a lot of dinner parties, I might consider deep, saturated colors in hues of red or blue. Red is warm and welcoming, and blue can be stately and make you feel tended to. I also take into consideration your art and furnishings that are staying in the home.
So often, people don’t know where to start when it comes to color and they get completely overwhelmed. With consideration of the answers to these questions, you may know more than you think you do!
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We will be selling our home next year. We tried but – no go – last year.
I am interested in millwork color. We have millwork that is sort of like a white wash. That is 98% or so. We also have white pillars and crown molding in the dinning room, living room entry space.
Kitchen and family room on the right – three bedroom, den and two baths on the left have the whitewash. We just painted the hall and hall bath a tannish color and replace the baseboard with higher and whet ones, to match baseboard in the dinning room, living room entry space which goes beautifully with the white pillars, fireplace and crown molding. We think the whitewash (sort of light tan) looks fine with the white baseboard. Daughter thinks we should paint all the woodwork white. What’s your thought? Could you help us with the color consultation in the add. We live in Gig Harbor.
Hi Marsha, I hope my reply came to you in an email. If not, I’ll recap it here. It might be nice to paint all the millwork in a white, that way it’s all cohesive. I would love to help with a color consult. But due to the distance there would be an additional trip charge and mileage charge. Thank you for your question, I hope this helps.
We have millwork that is sort of a white wash. We have replace the baseboards with taller white ones. Does it all have to be painted. We like it as is.