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I need to do new flooring, paint, master bath remodeling, etc, for my house and am not particularly good at visualizing color combos, etc. Is there any software that can help with this? Thanks!
I do this the old fashioned way. I get color chips and bring them home and carry them around, taping them to walls and looking at them. What you are looking for is how the paint reflects the light in various spaces, and how the color goes with the permanent elements in the room, such as fireplace, trim, flooring.
When you think you have one or a couple or three good candidates, take the chips to the store and have small cans of the paint colors mixed. Buy some foam core at the same time, and if you have to, cut into med sized pieces. Paint your pieces with the paint you have had mixed. Leave a white border around the paint if you have white trim. Carry the painted foam core around the room or other spaces, and see how you like it. Stand it up against the wall, and look. If there is an element in your room which you cannot change, then the paint needs to look good with this element, or elements.
If you have permanent pieces of furniture, then the same goes for them. Take your time!
I think you will be able to visualize very well if you take your time and really look at your paint possibilities in all lights. It might be that you love a color but you want to go lighter with it. Or darker. It is less expensive to do this up front and have confidence in your choice than to be surprised by how a color looks on your wall, and feel the need to do it all over.
I have used paint company website software such as Behr and CIL. Choose a shade lighter when you pick a paint color you like.
Room designer has a category for bathroom. Some help you with choosing fixtures.
Not sure if it's too late already, but there's a service called Archilogic that works right in your browser.
Came across them on social media and they have a jubilee giveaway right now where you can get a free 3D model to imagine and play around with your design ideas.
I do this the old fashioned way. I get color chips and bring them home and carry them around, taping them to walls and looking at them. What you are looking for is how the paint reflects the light in various spaces, and how the color goes with the permanent elements in the room, such as fireplace, trim, flooring.
When you think you have one or a couple or three good candidates, take the chips to the store and have small cans of the paint colors mixed. Buy some foam core at the same time, and if you have to, cut into med sized pieces. Paint your pieces with the paint you have had mixed. Leave a white border around the paint if you have white trim. Carry the painted foam core around the room or other spaces, and see how you like it. Stand it up against the wall, and look. If there is an element in your room which you cannot change, then the paint needs to look good with this element, or elements.
If you have permanent pieces of furniture, then the same goes for them. Take your time!
I think you will be able to visualize very well if you take your time and really look at your paint possibilities in all lights. It might be that you love a color but you want to go lighter with it. Or darker. It is less expensive to do this up front and have confidence in your choice than to be surprised by how a color looks on your wall, and feel the need to do it all over.
Good luck!
Exactly what I do!! This is because lighting can make such a difference, and software doesn't take that into account. I get so many compliments on our paint choices, and it was a bit painstaking, but worth it.
Exactly what I do!! This is because lighting can make such a difference, and software doesn't take that into account. I get so many compliments on our paint choices, and it was a bit painstaking, but worth it.
So glad you agree. It is a project to choose paint, no? I've gotten compliments on my color choices as well.
This is a project that takes thought.
A paint color I loved in my previous house looked like a foggy blue gray. In this house is is light green! Light is everything.
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