How to Choose the Perfect Paint Color for Your Home

Regardless of who you are or where you live, if you’re a homeowner, you want your sanctuary to be the envy of all who behold it. And paint color has a lot to do with the look and feel of your space. Unfortunately, you may not know how to select a paint color that will work for your particular room. After all, you don’t want to make the mistake of purchasing a color that makes it feel smaller or doesn’t definitively scream “me!”

Not only that, but painting has the power to improve your mood and quell anxiety. Some interior and exterior painting companies have seen a revenue increase during the pandemic, as people are using DIY painting as a pseudo therapy. In fact, researchers at the University of Rochester found that various paint colors can affect your mood, energy, and decision-making.

When you’re trying to decide on the perfect paint to revitalize your home and your mood, the color selection process doesn’t have to be lengthy and arduous. On the contrary, it should be fun and exciting, choosing paints that will make a statement and turn your house into a home. Merry Maids® is here to help you find color inspiration and create a color scheme that you’ll love for years to come.

1. Use Nature for Inspiration

How often have you taken a moment for yourself, walked outside, and let the rejuvenating power of nature wash over you? Believe it or not, you can develop that same energy for your interior walls. When choosing paint colors, nature can also be an inspiration catalyst for your home. Setting your sights on vibrant blues, earthy greens, or neutral browns, means you’re considering the kind of ambiance you want to create. Remember, many of the nature-inspired colors you want can be mixed at your local home improvement store.

2. Check Out Trendy Annual Colors

Large paint manufacturers consistently release the year’s trendiest colors for your home. Now, that’s not to say that you should change your paint color every year to keep up with the Joneses, but you can incorporate a chic color palette into your décor. For 2022, companies like Behr and Sherwin-Williams® are keeping things calm and relaxing with neutral, warm, and cool tones that you can easily mix and match to suit your style.

3. Don’t Be Afraid to Go Bold

While next year’s color styles point toward subtlety, you don’t have to keep things reserved just to have a chic and sophisticated home. If you have a vibrant personality that you want your style to convey, go bold! We love a pop of joyful yellow on the bottom half of a wall or a moody black behind built-in shelving. These accents will add visual interest to your space and keep the atmosphere exactly how you want it without compromising your tastes.

4. Use Your Favorite Textiles

Finding creativity already in your home is one of the best ways to choose interior paints. You can grab colors from your favorite artwork, wall tapestry, curtains and drapes, rugs, or furniture. Incorporating these colors will tie the room together and highlight those subtle accents in the existing textiles. Many interior design experts are adamant that you should have fabrics and materials chosen and placed before painting.

5. Test Swatches Before Committing

You try on clothes before purchasing them, right? If you can try anything before spending money on it, you may save yourself from buyer’s remorse later. The same is true when it comes to selecting interior house colors. All home improvement stores have walls of free swatches you can take home to consider your decision, but did you know that you can also get a small sample of the actual color to see what it looks like on your walls without ever having to pick up a paintbrush?

Samplize can help you make design decisions easy with peel-and-stick paint swatches for less than $6. Partnering with several major brands like Farrow & Ball, PPG, and Benjamin Moore, the company assures no cleanup, no wasted materials, and colors that are incredibly accurate. One of the best things about Samplize’s color swatches is that you can still see textured walls, so you get a real-world visual of your paint color.

6. Use a Paint Color App

If you’re starting to feel overwhelmed combing through paint swatch after paint swatch, use technology to help you narrow down your search and virtually paint your walls. Paint color apps help you envision the paint on your walls without leaving the comfort of home or purchasing samples. A few paint color apps you should try include:

• The Home Depot Project Color – If you’re looking for paints that match specific accent colors from existing pieces in your room, The Home Depot Project Color app is the best choice. Take color inspiration from furniture, artwork, and fabrics to complement your paint.
• Home Harmony – Upload an image of the room you want to paint and browse Behr products to test on your walls digitally.
• Primer – With Primer, you use augmented reality to focus on a particular wall in your home and see paint colors in real-time. There’s no taking or uploading pictures.
• Paint Tester – While this app may seem like your typical “upload a picture and select your paint color” resource, it has several capabilities that other similar apps lack. For instance, you can create a “painter’s tape” boundary to render an accurate depiction of your favorite color and keep it from spilling over onto specific surfaces.

7. Consider Natural Lighting

Even the most beautiful colors can transform once they’re on the walls and natural light filters through your windows. Warm whites with yellow undertones can suddenly look dingy as the sun sets. You always want to consider how your paint will look throughout certain times of the day because it can completely upend the ambiance you’re looking for. Therefore, using paint swatches is so vital. It would be a shame to paint your entire wall with a color you loved in the can but doesn’t look so stellar highlighted by natural light.

The perfect interior paint is literally just a click away, regardless of how you choose your paint colors. Once you’ve created the desired effect inside your home, let our cleaning professionals add the finishing touch with specialty cleaning services.

Find your local Merry Maids today or call (888) 490-4227 to get the house cleaning support you need after a painting project.