Choosing the Right Paint for Your Home

When you are building a home, the colors you select for your walls plays a vital role in your home’s overall appearance. With the help of the professional team at Hardwood Specialties, picking the perfect color palette for your home’s interiors becomes an easier process.

•    Color Scheme - You want to choose a color scheme from the most significant or most substantial pattern in that specific room or space. If you have a colorful rug, patterned upholstery, or a large piece of artwork, you can pull a color that you like from that design and use it on your walls for a successful and attractive look. Look to the pattern’s neutral colors such as beiges and whites to provide a look that will match anything.

•    Dark to Light – If you decorate from dark to light in a vertical manner, you are sure to make any space look its best without taking much risk. Darker colors can be used on the floors with medium color values on the walls then reach up to lighter colors on the ceiling. Using this approach, you replicate the outside world where the earth itself is generally darker, and it lightens as we move skyward.

•    Starting with the formal rooms – You want to start with your home’s formal areas when selecting paint. Specifically, these are the living room, dining room, and entryway of the house. You should choose a color scheme for those areas first. You could then pull one color from that scheme to use in more private areas, such as in a bedroom, an office, or a den. As an example, you can take a bright piece of furniture, such as a red sofa then tone it down to a darker shade of red, such as wine or burgundy, and use it in another room.

•    The color wheel – Analogous color schemes of colors that are located by each other on the color wheel, such as greens and blues, are much more relaxing and casual so they will work well in private or informal areas of the houses. This strategy is perfect for space where you would like to rest and recover, such as in your bedroom.

Looking at This New-Home Construction Project

In this new construction, Revere Pewter by Benjamin Moore, which is the well-known paint company’s most popular shade, was used in the formal areas. Different samples were taken into the home during the construction process so making product decisions is much more precise and straightforward.

Instead of looking at the house as a whole then feeling overwhelmed, it is better to break it down and address one aspect of the design process at a time. Benjamin Moore offers paints in several different product lines, so there are high-quality options available to fit all budgets.

Hardwood Specialties takes pride in offering only the highest quality products for new home construction projects. Offering all the major brands, excellent quality products, and competitive pricing, they can help with projects of all sizes and within all budgets.

For more than 19 years, Hardwood Specialties has been providing quality home improvement products and services to homeowners in the Lakeway area. To learn more about Hardwood Specialties, their services, and product selection, call (423) 581-5451.