Choosing the Perfect Paint Color for Your New Home

Congratulations! It’s the one you have always been looking for – the one with the right number of rooms, a fireplace, and storage that would make Kondo proud. But before you start arranging your furniture and hanging up your favorite cat posters, there’s one crucial decision looming over you like a raincloud in a cartoon: painting the house and particularly the choice of the right color for a particular house.

Now, I can hear you say, Now, I know what you would ask in response! What is so difficult about choosing a color, isn’t it? It’s just some paint….vivid colors splashed on the wall. So my friend, get ready to be shocked.

Selecting the paint color is a bit like selecting the appropriate avocado – it’s all about timing, persistence, and often blind luck. But fear not! So get ready to laugh and get a handle on all those crazy-colored landmines out there!

Embrace the Madness

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Still, it seems rather desolate so let’s begin with what should be obvious: the situation is ridiculous. It’s time to sit through hundreds of minutes, maybe even days, of arguments over whether the paint color should be light beige or off-white.

It would be enough to make any casual person rethink their sanity, that is how crazy the plan is. But hey, come on, if it means not having to dread painting the walls builder’s beige again, it’s the new year’s descent to the hell of paint-coated hell.

Know Thyself (and Thy Space)

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Before going through paint swatches like a bull through ranging options, there is one that you must take your time to consider: your personality and that of your house. Are you a macho man who is comfortable with the ladies with a touch of a color like hot pink?

Or are you more of a calm heart that only attracts ocean colors like blue and grey? Just beware that your home reflects your personality, so therefore, do not be afraid to embrace your individuality.

Secondly, do a quick check of the area that you are going to paint. Does the place brighten up like it is flooded with light, or does it look like a cave on the façade of which nothing is painted? The role that lighting makes when we apply the paint, means what might look like a buttery yellow in the shop might look like some awful luminous yellow in the gloom of the hallway. On the chosen layout, draw attention to the location of windows: their orientation and the time of the day when the owners spend most of their time in a particular room.

Test, Test, and Test Some More

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I hope this has given you a vague idea of what you need Well, it is time to go to the paint store with a pile of paint swatches and with the warrior-like spirit to find what you want. But before you think about gallons of paint, let me do you a favor and get a few sample pots.

Painting color sampling is a bit like going on a few dates before finding the right partner. Take small samples of the color of your choice and paint sections of your walls then compare the result in the morning, afternoon, and evening.

When it gets dark does it change? Are they matching with your furniture or do you find them conflicting? Did these t-shirts make you feel like going for a hop and sing? Okay, maybe not the last one but just know that you get it.

Consult the Oracle (aka Your Friends and Family)

Honestly, don’t we all want to think of ourselves as the little kings and queens of our paint monarchy, sometimes it is useful to listen to the words of the serfdom… I mean our companions, our relatives. Take your paint samples and ask people what they think about the color – all you have to do is expect a barrage of unsolicited opinions.

While your mom may have her ‘perfect’ shade of eggshell white, your best friend may never tire of having neon green as her new black. Ignore them in a sense, except to take their ideas and go with your own instincts, armed with the paint. Well, after all, it is you who has to wake up with the colored walls, not them!

Make Peace with Imperfection

Finally, what has long been anticipated is now here. This is after you have probably spent quite a lot of time and effort to choose the right color and even had a chance to cry over it as you do a last look before finally, you make your decision to go ahead and get painted. Pick up that paintbrush like the knight in medieval warfare and go at it, apply that color to those walls.

But here is the thing – however carefully you plan and select the paint color, it is possible that you will not receive the color that you desire. Perhaps it is a bit too dark for your taste, or maybe, it does not even match your flashy 1970s lava lamp.

However, in any case, do not rush to despair, because the perfect house does not exist, and small flaws add charm to home ownership. Say yes to the peculiarities of your home, and know you always paint a wall a different color at some point.

All in all, selecting the right paint shade for a new home is a roller coaster ride of joys and sorrows and as many shades of grey as there are in a bad novel. And would you believe it, with a little bit of humor, a healthy dose of self-awareness, and a lot of embracing of mediocrity, any dwelling is capable of an HGTV makeover? Thus, you, the courageous homeowner, should promptly go out there and paint… your walls with the color of your choice.

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