How To Pick the Right Colour Palette for Your Home

Once you decide to go ahead with a painting project, choosing the right colour palette becomes the next important step. A colour palette is a carefully structured combination of colours that can reflect your personality throughout your home. This type of colour scheme helps you narrow down your options and makes it easier for you to paint and design your home. If you have an eye for design, choosing a colour palette will be a piece of cake for you. But if you find it difficult to differentiate between Antique White (#faebd7) and Marshmallow White (#eeebea), then let us help you choose the right colour palette for your home.

Find Your Inspiration

• When it comes to choosing the right colour and design for your kitchen or bedroom, you can find tons of inspiration boards on Pinterest and Instagram. You can save the design combinations you like and then narrow down your choices to one palette. You can find colour palette inspirations in home decor magazines as well. If you end up with multiple colours and find it difficult to choose one, a paint contractor can help you narrow down your choices.

Start with the Central Room in Your House

• If you’re planning a whole-house paint project or some specific rooms, we recommend you start with the most central or primary room on your list for the project. Keeping this room as an anchor, design it to further develop your palette for other rooms. This strategy will create a ripple effect and allow you to enhance your colour palette in different areas of the house.

Choose a Combination of Dark and Light Colours

• Confused about specific colour shades and hues? Kick off your project with simple dark and light colour combinations. Grey and black for kitchen cabinets, maroon and light brown for study, patches of dark and light purple for your master bedroom will bring out the natural light and elegance from each corner. Dark and light colour combinations also provide depth and illusions for a bigger space.

Undertones and Neutral Colours

• If you want to achieve that perfect modern, classic or boho look you saw in TikTok videos or on Pinterest, we recommend you go for undertones and neutral colours. You can later accessorize your walls with paintings, furniture and other decorative pieces to bring the look together. Painting your walls in clean white smoke (#F5F5F5), dark greys (#a9a9a9), matcha matte (#d8f8c0) or pink powder blush (f7d7d7) shades, will give you opportunities to experiment with the interior design of your home.

Pro tip:

Don’t be fixated on a specific hue! Choose a shade and then get the help of an expert painter to finalize a specific hue from the shade.

Test Your Colour Palette

• Thanks to technology, there are different advanced online tools available where you just have to upload the picture of your wall, select a colour palette and digitally determine which colour combination suits you best. They essentially function as online shopping. You can also purchase sample size colour cans from local shops and actually paint patches of those colours on your walls to feel and determine which colour combinations to finalize. However, if you don’t want to spend a fortune on buying expensive software or purchasing unnecessary paint cans, you can ask a local painter to help. Many painters own high-end software and can also help you purchase sample paints at cheaper prices.

Repeat these Colours in Different Patterns and Combinations in Different Rooms

• Think about creative ideas to repurpose the colour palette in different ways in different rooms. For example, let’s say you decide to paint your kitchen cabinets in matte garden sage green (#77815c) and metallic golden (#d4af37 for handles) combination with eggwhite (#f0ead6) walls. You can use the same combination for your family room with garden sage green walls, eggshell on accent and hues of boho brown instead of gold for painting or decorative pieces. Using the same colour palette in different combinations all across your house will save you on paint cost, let you be very creative and create a uniform yet unique look all across the house.

When it comes to choosing a colour palette for your home, you can’t just say that you want red and blue walls and stop there. You need to figure out a colour palette that will work throughout your home and complement its design.  This is your opportunity to be more creative and playful with colours. If you’re not sure, you can always ask a local painter’s opinion on the project. This way you can ensure you’re spending money on the right colour palette for your home.