Spring Forward To Color

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Spring is upon us and it’s time to come out of our cocoons. This is a time of year we humans tend to get the urge to spruce up our homes. One way to quickly do a spruce up is to refresh an old paint color or add a new paint color to our home. It’s a quick, easy and inexpensive fix.

Unfortunately, adding color can be daunting to many people and many people can’t even determine what colors they like. Here are two easy tips to help you figure it out.

First, take a look in your closet. We tend to pick clothes in colors that we like and that we feel good in. For example, you may notice that most of the garments in your closet are in the blue family. It’s easy to assume that you like blue – so seriously consider the idea that blue should be a major element of your home color scheme.

Second, walk around your home and look for something that you love, that you would miss seeing on a day-to-day basis. It could be a piece of art, throw pillow, rug, vase, etc. Once you have found this piece, let that guide you toward your color scheme. If you love it, most likely you love it because the color or colors of the item “speak to you”.

Once you decide what paint colors you want to try, get paint samples from your local paint retailer. Paint large squares of the chosen samples on the walls you are going to paint. Let the squares dry completely and check them out over a 24-hour period. If the resulting color is what you had in mind – go for it. If not, try more samples and repeat the process until you get the color you love.