Choosing Interior Paint Colors for Your Home

green and yellow paint samples What’s your favorite color? This is a common “get to know you” question that we’ve been asking one another since we were little. Colors hold a lot of significance in our lives; we choose clothes, cars and phone cases based on our favorite ones. Colors also have a profound impact on our mood – does yellow make you feel calm or uneasy?

When it comes to the rooms of your home, you likely don’t want to feel anxious. If you’re considering repainting your rooms, we offer five quick tips to help you choose the right colors for you.

1. What’s the Layout of the Room?

The color you choose for a room will partially depend on how the space is set up. When a room get a lot of sunlight during the day, your color options can become limited. Natural light can make an already bright color, like red, overstimulating to the eye. For rooms with several windows, softer hues of blue or white might be more appealing.

2. What Is the Purpose of the Room?

Each room in your home serves its own purpose. Whether a space is used for work, relaxation or entertainment will play a big role in your color decisions. Colors can be matched to most moods; blues and greens are known to be more calming, whereas shades of orange can spark creativity. The general rule of thumb is that brighter colors work best in more social environments and neutral colors create a calmer, more formal atmosphere.

3. Start with a Small Area

If you’re planning to make an intense color change, test out a small area that guests won’t immediately see upon entering your home. Highlighting the molding or trim with a bold hue can be the first step to reinventing a space. For example, warm red to compliment cream walls or a metallic glaze over the mantel.
Unsure about what color to try? Be inspired by the furniture and other accent pieces in the room. If you have a favorite purple throw pillow or an abstract painting with hints of yellow, draw from those patterns that are already a part of your design scheme.

4. Properly Accent Your Color Choice

Once you decide on a primary wall color, be sure to accent your selection with the right accessories. For instance, vibrant green pairs well with black, white, gray and gold. The last thing you want is for the accents to fall short of your expectations, leading you to regret the color makeover entirely!

5. Are You Looking to Sell Your Home?

One final note before you decide to change the color scheme of your interior rooms: will you be putting your home on the market in the near future? If so, homebuyers may be turned off by bright and bold color choices. To offer potential buyers a clean slate, consider freshening up the walls with shades of white.

M. Brett Painting Company specializes in exterior and interior painting jobs. To get started on the renovation of your rooms, contact us today!