Episode 18: How to Choose Paint Colors

If you’ve ever stood in front of the paint section at your local home improvement store and felt completely overwhelmed, this episode is for you! We’re talking about how to choose paint colors for your home, taking a paint color quiz, and sharing some pillow talk as always.

Highs and Lows

Kimmy: High -Jude is potty trained! Low - Living Room Rug Delayed

Emily: High - buying the playset from the neighbor for $200. Low - need to put it back together and rehabilitated

Bre: Low -Storm and trees down. High - being prepared, making bagels

How to Choose Paint Colors

1. Create a color scheme for your entire home. What’s the mood you are looking for? Google or Pinterest color schemes

2. Any color can look good, in the right tone. Tone vs Shade

3. Buy the better quality paint

4. Sample, sample, sample! 

• Look at the bottom, darkest color on the chip. (Give example of blue.) 

• Look at the chips next to white 

• different times of day

• on multiple walls

• BIG samples 

• Don’t be afraid to paint the ceiling the same wall color 

• Pick the lighter version of the color you are looking at. It will look darker once on the walls 

• Samplize website

5. Pay attention to the sheen 

6. Consider the undertones, lighting, flooring, outside too. (Like if you have a lot of trees, that will impact how the color looks!)

7. PRIME 

8. Don’t be scared! It’s only paint! 

9. You have to live with it, YOU have to love it! Don’t be afraid of a phase one.

10. Don’t cheap out on your tools. Get good quality rollers (velour, foam, microfiber, fuzzy), angled brushes, HANDy Paint Cup

Emily’s Painted Rooms:

Breanna’s Painted Rooms:

Kimmy’s Painted Rooms:

BM Simply White

BM Simply White

SW Dark Night

Pillow Talk

Emily - faux trees and bushes from Amazon!

Tall set

Bush

Elsie from A Beautiful Mess’s faux trees

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