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Choosing paint color for your room is a great deal of fun but also very time consuming. Here are some tips on choosing the right paint color for your room:
 | Evaluate your room and consider all the colors
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Evaluate your room and consider all the colors that are already present. Let these colors guide your paint color choices. What color is your furniture? Your bedspread and pillows? Drapes? Also make note of the color of your carpet/flooring. This will make a big difference in how everything in your room will look once you’ve painted it.
Go to the paint section of the home improvement store and explore the paint samples. Ask an expert in the paint section to recommend brands for the colors you are looking for. Have the expert mix out some samples for you. Take those samples and all the paper samples you like home with you.
Hold the samples next to your furniture and linens to see how they match. Try to narrow the samples down to a few choices.
Take your narrowed-down samples back to the home improvement store and have them mixed out into quarts. This can be pricey depending on how many choices you have. That’s why its good to narrow down the samples as much as you can.
Go home and paint the samples onto a sizable cardboard sheet or scrap of plywood. Hold the pieces up to all the walls in the room to see you they look on a bigger scale. Play with the lighting in your room to see how it affects the color. You’ll be surprised to see how much a color can change when it’s in a different light. This last step should be enough to help you make your final decision.
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