How a paint color makes you feel – the most important consideration in choosing a color.

Question: With all the paint colors to choose from, how does our color consultant Kate help our customers narrow them down?

If you’ve ever watched Say Yes to the Dress, brides are often asked when trying on a dress, “How do you feel?”  Our designer Kate uses that same method in helping our Clients choose both interior and exterior colors for their homes – after all, you’ll be looking at the paint colors you choose for years, so you want to feel great in the space or as you drive up the driveway each day.

Step One:  

• Start with the Benjamin Moore historical collection of colors. These paint colors come in “can’t go wrong” colors that can be bold but will never make you look like the “crazy neighbor.”

Step Two:

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  After you narrow down about ten paint colors, really study each of your color choices and one by one decide what word comes to mind when you see each color. Does the brown remind you of your first boyfriend’s eyes? Take note.  Does the beige remind you of your labradoodle’s fur? That’s good to know.

• At this stage, you’ll likely be able to eliminate half of your choices just because they don’t “feel right.”

Step Three:

• Get large color samples of your remaining choices.
• Hang them up in the areas you want to paint.
• Live with them throughout the day and evening and watch the color change in different lights.

Using those tiny paint chips from the paint store is hard to choose colors. The different light and shadows will also change the color throughout the day. If you’d like CertaPro to order some large (8″ x 10″) color samples for free, email Paige at [email protected] with your Benjamin Moore and/or Sherwin Williams colors. We’ll mail them for free, even if you’re doing the project yourself.

Working with Kate is a free service for all of our Clients and spending an hour with her to get your interior or exterior colors “just right” is time well spent.  Kate will order large color samples and do a computer rendering of your colors using a photo of your home so you can see the colors on the computer screen before we even pick up a brush.

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Written by: Paige NeJame – Franchise Owner

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Meredith “Paige” NeJame is a 1988 graduate of Boston College and is still surprised by how much she enjoys running a painting business. “It’s always fun to surprise customers with great service. They don’t expect it from a contractor”