Hello everyone!
I’m facing a tough choice when it comes to interior paint colors.
Pinterest offers lots of beautiful color palettes that I like. Unfortunately, most of them come from an American supplier. Their website also has a nice online tool where you can simulate how the colors look in different rooms, in both artificial and natural light. Of course, it’s just a simulation, but for me, it’s much more helpful than the paint swatches from the hardware store.
Is there a reliable way to communicate the colors from this American brand to my painter so they can accurately mix them? The website provides RGB and Hex values as well as LRV, but I don’t think these are precise enough to define the color properly.
The usual RAL color fan decks commonly available here are all too bright for me. I’m looking for colors with a very high white content, finely toned. I’m not really making progress. Does anyone have any advice?
I’m facing a tough choice when it comes to interior paint colors.
Pinterest offers lots of beautiful color palettes that I like. Unfortunately, most of them come from an American supplier. Their website also has a nice online tool where you can simulate how the colors look in different rooms, in both artificial and natural light. Of course, it’s just a simulation, but for me, it’s much more helpful than the paint swatches from the hardware store.
Is there a reliable way to communicate the colors from this American brand to my painter so they can accurately mix them? The website provides RGB and Hex values as well as LRV, but I don’t think these are precise enough to define the color properly.
The usual RAL color fan decks commonly available here are all too bright for me. I’m looking for colors with a very high white content, finely toned. I’m not really making progress. Does anyone have any advice?
Alessandro schrieb:
Colors always appear differently on large surfaces. Unfortunately, I had to realize this with our facade paint... RAL colors are not as precise as Pantone anyway. A color mixed according to a RAL color chart will only look “the same” if it is applied again on the same glossy cardboard that the color chart is printed on – and it will look different when painted on plaster.
kati1337 schrieb:
I would like very light, pale tones. Most of the colors I’ve seen in fan decks so far have been too dark or too strong for me. Even the sand or gray shades. It seems to me that you are simply confused about the difference between solid colors and tinting colors.
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11ant schrieb:
It seems to me that you’re simply confused—specifically about the difference between full-tone paint and tinting paint.I’ve heard those terms before, but I’m not exactly sure what they mean. Is full-tone paint just the base color made lighter? Or what exactly does it refer to?
chand1986 schrieb:
2) Tape off a frame, so the paint doesn’t go all the way up to the ceiling and adjacent walls.We just discussed this yesterday with our painter...
He said that nowadays no one paints a frame anymore?!?
And he works for a painting company that has worked on the more "modern" buildings in the city (restaurants, department stores, architect-designed houses, etc.)...
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pagoni20203 Sep 2020 09:28Golfi90 schrieb:
We just discussed this topic with our painter yesterday...
He said that nowadays nobody does trim anymore?!?
And he works for a painting company that has painted some of the more "modern" buildings in the city (restaurants, department stores, architect-designed houses, etc.)... It works just as well either way, without one looking better or worse than the other. There is no universal taste...
We spent two days laying out all the samples (tiles, kitchen fronts, countertops, doors, painter’s color chart) in the rooms of the house under both artificial and natural daylight. While the individual colors might work, the overall impression together is quite different. During this time, my wife collected all the selected samples and then carefully returned them.
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