Markham residential painters can help you choose your colors.

Learn from our experience from painting 1000’s of homes,we’ve seen a lot.

Picking light colors lean toward opening up the room giving it the illusion of space and brightness. Most people will probably pick something light over dark. (Also consider what furniture you putting in to that room because if you’re putting some larger red furniture or even a large red carpet in there  then the walls will reflect a pink shade.)

Darker shades give the room some warmth and depth. Instead of painting the whole room a darker color try just taking one wall making that your accent wall with that color. This way you don’t run the risk of making the room feel smaller and darker than if you painted the whole thing dark.

We are Mississauga painting contractor and I get a lot of different questions on house painting. Below is a resource that I have found very useful and the  ideas might interest you too.

Are you planning to paint your home?

The best thing about paint is it’s a cheap and easy way to change your life. Bored? Paint! Change your mind, paint again! Afraid? Start in a closet or laundry room. Color will completely change your mood.

Here are some easy, interesting tips for choosing color:

1. Afraid of color but bored with white? Pick a neutral that you love but go one shade darker to add some interest. If you’re worried about how it will look on the wall, start in a closet or laundry room but remember, light, both interior and exterior, will dramatically change the color’s appearance.
2. Use a contrasting color on an accent wall such as behind the television or on the window wall.
3. Paint the ceiling a color. A couple of shades lighter or darker than the walls is safe and creates an interesting contrast. I suggest a couple shades lighter in a small space so the ceiling feels higher. In our sunroom, the walls are green (obvious choice!) and the ceiling is the same color. I wanted it to feel like you’re outside in the trees!
4. Paint a small powder room black. Yup, it’s fabulous. Black actually makes the room seem larger as the walls disappear. Artwork and gold framed mirrors really pop against the black background.
5. Change the sheen. Eggshell creates a matte and less reflective finish. Try high-gloss on the ceiling to reflect light. High gloss on trim makes them easier to wipe clean. Remember, high-gloss will show bumps and dents so make sure you have a smooth surface.
6. Try a different beige. It’s easy to stay conservative with a gentle move toward the mushroom, coffee or khaki beiges. Going toward a color is safe, but warmer and far more interesting to the eye.
7. Don’t forget brick. I always paint brick fireplaces to match the wall color. The room looks more spacious and clean. I paint the mantels the same color as the rest of the room’s trim.
8. Lighting makes a big difference. Your walls will look slightly different at different times of the day and the 4 walls will look different from each other. Natural daylight shows the truest color; incandescent lighting brings out warm tones and yellows; fluorescent lighting casts a blue tone.
9. Buy a small “tester” can to try out colors. Paint only one wall or a large space on a single wall. Let it dry. Look at it at different times of the day and evening to determine if you like it before you commit.
10. Remember, paint darkens when it dries.

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Sometimes you want to spice up or redecorate a room in your home. And sometimes the choosing of “colors of house paint” is a difficult process. And the more you think about it the more stuck you get. I read an article where they had downloaded a program from the place called “Resene”, this is a New Zealand company that you can download a room coloring program to help you generate some ideas on choosing colors of house paint for individual rooms.

Once you get the hang of the program and you can start playing with it, it might give you some great ideas for color schemes. Once you realize what color combinations you like  you can go to the paint store and see them in real life. The computer screen only gives you an idea of what you might like but in the store you will be able to take some samples of various items such as dinner plates or coffee cups or drapes or something else that you might like to coordinate with.

Since you played around with the program you have a good sense in which directions you might want to be looking at for color choices and combinations.

Another way deciding what colors you might like is to give us a call here at “Toronto Painters” and we can talk you through your decision-making process of choosing your “colors of house paint”.

Recently, a customer who was planning to sell their home contacted a real estate agent. In the conversation that followed the real estate agent had suggested to repaint the condo a gray color for home staging. This color wasn’t even a light gray it was a medium shade. The agent did not suggest to repaint the trim which was already a slightly creamy white, this means the trim paint had  a mixture of yellow or brown in it. A yellow or brown hint indicates a warm color sensation. Where as gray if not also mixed with a little bit of yellow or brown will tend to be colder in nature. And this tends to give the combination a weird look.

The walls originally were a beige color but they were dirty, and because of this they needed to be repainted to make it look clean and fresh. The trim work blended nicely with this original wall color but when the gray color was installed onto the walls it made the trim look out of place. This was a total mismatch and non-complimentary to the wall color which was now a light to medium gray. If the gray paint  had some yellow in it it might have worked better with trim paint.

In home staging Toronto is quite active many people these days who intend to sell their homes look into home staging as a better method of selling their homes. As one of many mississauga residential painters, we have enough experience to identify this type of a mismatch quite easily. We know that if we painted the walls grey and left the trim a light creamy white it wouldn’t look right.

Condo painters in Mississauga and in Toronto are quite busy with condo repainting at the end of the month. When purchasing a new condo you are only allowed a few visits prior to taking possession of your new condo. It is wise to take careful observations of all the different details that you might want to do prior to moving in. Once you have purchased a condo on your 2nd visit you should take a camera and make close inspection of any details that you might want to change such as which walls to paint. Possibly you might want to also paint all the ceilings and baseboards and doors. You might want  to replace some doors or even you might want to replace your closet sliding door with some other kind of upgrade door. You might also need to carpentry work done on your doors and trim. A lot of times when owners take possession of the new condos they do some minor renovations such as replacing doors baseboards. Some new owners will even install, all things to enhance the looks of their new space.

It is wise to take a prospective photograph of the item you are trying to talk about. For example if home owner has a damaged stucco ceiling it is wise to take an overall picture of the ceiling in that room, and in the same picture to give you some idea of the height of the stucco ceiling  and the shape of the stucco ceiling and its surrounding areas. This will give the painting estimator a better overview. The same idea goes good for painting kitchens and painting bathrooms. Being able to look at a picture in both perspective and detailed shots will give the condo painters a better idea on pricing the condo painting job.