Choosing The Right Colour

How to Choose the Right Interior Paint Colour

Whether you have just completed a new building or renovated an existing one, there is a need to paint your property, especially the interior. While you have put everyhing in the right place, you might be puzzled by what colour scheme of paint is right to use in your room.

The colour you use in your interior rooms says a lot about the room, such as how relaxing and lively the room is. Hence, it is important to know which colour palette is best to use.

Here are a few tips to help you find the right paint colour schemes:

5 Tips To Choose Interior Paint Colours

1.     Consider Your Furniture’s Colour

While you might have some specific colours in mind to choose for your interior, you may start with considering the colours of the existing furniture pieces in the room. Since you have multiple colours in the room, select three of those colours as your paint colours.

Choose the most significant colour for the wall and the other two – of the three colours – around the room in furnishings and fabric.

2.     Find Paint Colour Inspiration Online

When looking for the right paint colour scheme for your interior, you may want to check magazines and interior design websites for inspiration. Paint companies also have sites where you can source colour schemes. Other online platforms to find paint colour inspirations include Pinterest and Instagram.

3.     Create a Colour Scheme through Colour Theory

You can start your paint colour inspiration from colour theory. You don’t necessarily need to study colour theory to use this method to generate colour ideas. A colour wheel will help you out.

A colour wheel is a circle of different sectors with different colours, showing the relationships between colours.

If you are not satisfied with the colours on the wheel, you can make variations to the colours and choose their shades.

4.     Choose Neutral Colours

One easy way to choose a colour scheme for your interior is to settle for neutral colours. Neural colours can easily fit into any interior design with little effort. However, you can step up the game by being creative with neutral colours in your interior.

5.     Find Ideas in Artwork

You might not need to go for when choosing the best paint colour scheme for your room. The idea might be lying there in the room, such as in an artwork. Artworks are genius works from masters of colour and light, meaning a lot of effort has gone into selecting colours already.

Hence, an artwork might be a source of inspiration for paint colour ideas for your interior. If the exact colours don’t satisfy you, choose complementary colours to create your colour scheme.

Dramatic Transformations

Two areas of possible rising damp issues here;

After scrapping off the loose paint and efflorescence salts, sealing the area with Zinsser Gardz (sealant and Alkali resisting primer) and Zinsser BIN (shellac sealant paint) and then two coats of emulsion. This paint system should prevent the issue from coming back. The Zinsser Gardz bonds any friable suface and the Zinsser BIN will block any damp coming through. Breathable emulsion will allow for any moisture on the surface to evaporate keeping the damp at bay.

Hall Stairs and Landing

The Hall Stairs and landing is the most popular area by twice as much as any other area in a home according to my quickbooks stats. Due to its awkward heights and intricate spindles and large quantity of woodwork, the hall stairs and landing can be one of the more difficult areas for home owners to tackle themselves. Also with the narrow corridors and stair wells offer little room to avoid damage. This is very apparent in home with children and pets. Usually priced as three small rooms these areas aren’t for the small budgets but can make a huge impact on the way people feel in thier homes.

Wallpapering, Ilkley

This brick effect wallpaper was extremely realistic, definatley the best one i’ve seen yet. This non woven wallpaper was applied with ease with its easy to match pattern and paste the wall technique

Wallpaper designed by “Woodchip and Magnolia”

Hall, Stairs, & Landing Painting & Emulsion. Ben Rhydding, Ilkley

Green Bedroom Ben Rhydding, Ilkley

Custom Colour mix

Hand mixed custom colours throughout rental property. A mixture ratio of 6:1 was achieved to get the right shade to harmonise with the origional colour.

Best Wallpaper I Have Ever Used

This has to be the best non woven wallcovering I have put up in the last 13yrs. It's from John Lewis, check out the pics. 

Brer Rabbit

Here's the start of applying 27 rolls of Morris & Co wallpaper. Textured with a painted feel and retailing at £80 per roll it's quality shows its worth the value. 

Mural or Wallpaper?

What's the difference? 

When deciding between a Mural and a wallpaper concider the differences before you choose. A Mural doesn't have a pattern repeat. It's a single image printed on wallpaper in a specified order. Application is a one chance process leaving no room for mistakes hence getting the professionals in. Here's one I've done recently (see image above.) A wallpaper on the other hand will have a repeated pattern. This sometimes will show as a straight repeated pattern or a diagonal one if it has a drop pattern (see image below.)

Diagonal repeat (drop pattern)

Straight repeat (straight match)