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?
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Smialbuddler2 Sep 2020 14:41Alessandro schrieb:
Do it as Hampshire suggested. Everything else is just guessing!Why guessing? At the specialty store, colors were mixed by scanning an unrelated sample card. The employee said he could also use an old piece of painted wallpaper as a reference to remake a previously used color. Of course, this doesn’t work on the level of natural pigments, which can look slightly different depending on the lighting. But the color they mixed for us was very accurate...A
Alessandro2 Sep 2020 15:03Exactly for this reason, it’s a guessing game! Every phone and screen displays colors differently, so even with a Pinterest image and the corresponding RAL or another color code, you can only be somewhat sure that you will actually like the color in reality. That’s why I would always recommend testing the desired color on 1–2m² (11–22 sq ft) of wall inside the house first.
Colors also always appear different on larger areas. Unfortunately, I had to realize this recently with our facade color...
Colors also always appear different on larger areas. Unfortunately, I had to realize this recently with our facade color...
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hampshire2 Sep 2020 17:01We looked at the clay plaster as a sample and with color charts from the manufacturer (a whole case) in the house. We selected the texture, mixed-in components (straw in our case), and color. Everything fits.
Seeing colors in person definitely makes sense, just as getting inspiration online does. The fact is that the way light falls can make the same colors look very different. I was almost shocked when our tile installer, during the sample selection, hung a tile that was lying on the floor up on the wall. You would never have thought it was the same tile. At the hardware store with the beaver logo near us, there is a whole wall with small color cards from the paint manufacturer with the orange-red circle as a logo. These small cards already give a very good idea of how different lighting conditions affect the colors. Maybe your local hardware store has something similar. Otherwise, my advice is always to go to a specialist retailer and have the paint properly mixed.
Thanks for your tips. Tomorrow I will get to see the painter’s color swatches. I hope he can lend them to me, as I don’t want to decide in a rush. Otherwise, I tend to choose colors that are slightly lighter than what I like on the sample card. I find that colors usually look much darker when applied over a large area.
However, I’m not sure if his swatches include the shades we want. I prefer very light, pale tones. Most of the colors I’ve seen on swatches so far have been too dark or intense for me, even the sand or gray shades.
However, I’m not sure if his swatches include the shades we want. I prefer very light, pale tones. Most of the colors I’ve seen on swatches so far have been too dark or intense for me, even the sand or gray shades.
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chand19862 Sep 2020 17:57In addition to everything that has already been mentioned, I can add the following:
1) Use color as an eye-catcher, for example, on just one wall.
2) Tape off a frame, so the paint does not go all the way up to the ceiling or onto the adjacent walls.
3) Colors always appear stronger on large surfaces than on the paint swatch.
4) Do you already have some furniture? Not every wall color harmonizes with every piece of furniture!
1) Use color as an eye-catcher, for example, on just one wall.
2) Tape off a frame, so the paint does not go all the way up to the ceiling or onto the adjacent walls.
3) Colors always appear stronger on large surfaces than on the paint swatch.
4) Do you already have some furniture? Not every wall color harmonizes with every piece of furniture!
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