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Paint swatches and color decks are only approximations of actual paint color. An architectural draw down in addition to substrate paint outs are the best way to evaluate a paint color.


Color Theory and the Color Wheel
Most painters and paint shops have a color wheel available for customers to use but few actually explain the reason behind these devices or what makes them work so well when selecting paint colors for your home or office.

Professional painters, interior designers, and artists talk about “color theory” and how to predict what colors interact with each other to create aesthetically pleasing results. A quick device for explaining how color theory works is to use a “color wheel” which makes the whole process visually easy to understand.

When you use a color wheel, colors opposite each other are known as “complementary” and are a good start for choosing an overall color scheme.

Colors next to one another on the wheel are known as “adjacent” and are best used for creating a subdued and quieter feel, such as when painting an interior room and you want to bring down the visual energy of a space.

Color wheels are more sophisticated instruments than they might appear and take into account aspects of color design such as hue, saturation, and lightness, all topics that will be described in future posts in this blog. But for now understand that a color wheel can give you many suggestions on what color options you have when painting your home and their use is a great place to start.

Just playing with a color wheel will give you many new ideas, and also combinations of colors you have never thought of before.