Interior Painting Contractors & Guiding You to the Right Color

Painting is a great way to discover a new look and a fresh feel about your home or place of business.
Changing color or updating the look of where you live or work can improve your sense of comfort, happiness, and improve moral professionally.
Certain colors do certain things to set mood and atmosphere. Let’s look at some of the most popular colors:

Red– Is energy& creates excitement particularly in the evening. In the dining room or Living Room, it can draw people together & stimulate conversation.

Yellow– Is Joy and Happiness. Good for Kitchens, Dining Rooms & Bathrooms. Be careful using it as a Main field color as it can create a feeling of frustration & anger.

Blue– Brings down blood pressure and slows the heart rate & respiration. Recommended for Bedrooms for & Bathrooms because it is refreshing, secure, and calming.  It can also give a room a chilly feel.

Green– is restful, calming & is suitable for almost any home or office. It is a color that encourages unwinding and togetherness.

Purple– is rich, dramatic, and sophisticated. It is popular in Bedrooms because it is associated with Luxury and creativity.

Orange– is excitement,  enthusiasm, and energetic. Not great for a Living Room or Bedroom. Great for an exercise room.

Black–  is often added for really livening up any room.  Popular for Theatre Rooms and Art Niches.

In order to understand Color, one should become acclimated with some of the vocabularies used when attempting to match a considered color with its environment of choice.

Here are some of those Terms and concepts to understand:

Hues

 Purest & brightest form of Colors. These are the full Spectrum of Colors which progress around a Color Wheel.  These Colors are again very bold and are popular with  in your face type marketing campaigns for example.

Tints

Sometimes called Pastel.  It is simply any Color with White added in.  These Colors are soft, youthful and soothing.

Shades

These are any Color with Black added in. They are deep, powerful & Mysterious.

Tones

These are colors that are “Grayed Down” by adding both White and Black. These Colors are Subtle & Sophisticated.

 Selecting a color is meant to be fun and I hope by educating you on some basic concepts in that regard we have succeeded in getting you the right color for the right room.