How to Choose Paint Colors for Your Home
How to Choose Paint Colors for Your Home In Edmonton
Hey, welcome back to the channel. I'm here again with Leann Ebert from Walls Revived. She is a painter and really a design specialist, a color specialist, in fact. And today we're going to be talking all about color, how to select color for your paint job that you need in your house.
So, let's jump in. Let's talk about paint colors because that's usually something that's challenging for homeowners to do, choosing the right paint color in the room because things really change what the color looks like depending on the lighting or lack of lighting, whether there's natural light or different types of light fixturing.
Understanding Paint Color Challenges in Edmonton Homes
For sure. What is your process for helping people to select colors? Where do you start?
Okay. In general, we look for the neutral of the home. If someone wants a color home like blues or whatever, that's fine. That's a totally different issue topic and they can just pick a color. But in general, you want a neutral that encompasses the main areas of the home. It’s very overwhelming. There are thousands of colors to choose from.
In neutrals, there are undertones. What do you mean by that?
Well, the “50 shades of gray.” Let’s go with grays. There are blue grays, green grays, beiges, pink beiges, orange beiges. There are all those undertones. If you have a bunch of colors lined up, they might all look the same, but if you put them beside each other, you can tell which is orange or green.
When selecting a paint color for someone's home, you really have to work with the current fixtures that they have in the house, like countertops, tiles, carpets, all those things that aren’t being changed out. Let’s say you have a blue gray carpet. You can’t really pick a pink beige wall color.
You can. It’s just not going to look good.
And we want to avoid that. It’ll look off and you don’t know why. That’s exactly right.
Matching Paint Colors with Existing Finishes
Some people like blue gray walls, but then they have yellow trims. It doesn’t look good. In that case, you have to change your trims if you love blue gray walls, and that’s a huge undertaking.
For people in Edmonton, St. Albert, and the surrounding areas, when helping clients choose colors, most people start with those little sample strips from paint stores. They hold them up and say, “I think I like that color.”
A lot of people have the misconception that if it's on the same strip, it all coordinates or is just varying degrees of each other. For example, on one strip you might have a green gray, a lighter green gray, then a purple violet gray, and then a blue cool tone.
When I visit someone’s home, I ask if they’ve been looking at colors already. Most have. I get an idea of what they’re thinking, mostly for lightness. Many say, “Please help me. I don’t know where to start. I just want it lighter or brighter.”
When I visit, I bring large color panels of about 50 of Benjamin Moore’s most popular neutral colors. It’s so much better than a tiny strip. You can move these around the room, which you need to do because paint color changes in every room, on every wall, under different lighting.
I’ve heard designers say lighting doesn’t matter. It does. It totally does. The lighting changes how the paint looks, but it also matters what undertone is behind the main color.
The Role of Lighting and Undertones
There are different saturations of colors too. When people say they want white walls, I ask if they really want a piece of white paper on their wall. Most people actually want an off-white.
From the feedback I’m getting, people are getting tired of white walls. There was a trend where people went all gray. Gray is neutral, but it can feel cold depending on the undertone.
It was probably a blue gray or a violet gray. It felt cold and sad. That led to warming things up into “greige,” a mix of gray and beige. That’s still popular, but now we’re moving even warmer into beiges and warmer whites.
Just because you see a paint color in a show home doesn’t mean it will work in your home. I’ve seen it many times. A builder painted walls white, but the trim was yellow beige, making the trim look dirty.
So I picked colors that complemented the trim because changing trim in a large home is incredibly expensive.
When to Hire a Professional Painter in Edmonton
What you’re saying is you have an eye for what works with furnishings, trims, countertops, cabinets, and all those elements. Who should reach out for this service?
Usually, people who buy a new home and want to put their personal stamp on it, or when something feels off. Over the years, people paint with colors they like, but it might not work with the finishes.
Also, people who want to refresh their space. Maybe they still have gray walls and want to liven things up. We’re moving into warmer tones again.
For many homeowners, wall color should act as the backdrop, not the feature, unless you're doing a feature wall. It should support the space.
When it’s done well, it blends into the background and creates a feeling of serenity. You walk into a space and it feels cohesive and well thought out.
That’s why working with a professional painter in Edmonton can make a big difference.
When you go to a hotel or resort, you can sense the design. Everything flows together because there was a cohesive plan.
If you want guidance, you can even start with inspiration from Pinterest or artwork you love and build your color palette from there.
All right, Leann. Thank you so much for sharing your wealth of knowledge and information on how to select paint colors for your home, for your room. How do people get a hold of you?
You can reach out through the website wallsrevived.com or call 780-232-5540.
All right, awesome. Thanks so much. Hey, you guys, we will catch you on the next video, but don’t forget to like, subscribe, share this content with a friend, and when we have some new stuff or if you have any suggestions for content from Leann, we’d be happy to get that into the program. Thanks so much. We’ll see you next time.
