We choose the appropriate shades, find out how they will look on the wall, get acquainted with different effects and learn to avoid mistakes when choosing paint.
To understand what color to choose paint for walls, you need to immerse yourself in the subtleties that only designers are usually known: color formulas, mixing of shades, samples and doses, different effects. After that, you will be sure which color you need and how it will eventually look in the interior.
8 important moments in choosing a flavor
1. Color formula2. Store Samples
3. Choice: Corrected or Cracker Material
4. Dose away
5. Palette for the whole apartment
6. Combination of walls and furniture
7. Change shade
8. Various coating effects
1UD are the color formula that you like
If you know the exact name of the color, then it has a certain formula for which store consultants can help you choose the right tone from each manufacturer. For example, you learned that in the Scandinavian interior for walls is often used by the "Stockholm White". Its formula is NCS S 0502-y. This formula from the NCS system, which uses different degrees of darkness and saturation for the combinations of yellow y, red R, blue b, green G, white W and black B.
Example: Decryption of NCS S 0502-Y Formula
- NCS - Natural Color System. Natural flower system.
- S - Standartized. Standard, most often used version of this system.
- 0502: 05 - Dark percentage, 02 - percent saturation. The percentage of darkness and saturation is very small, then you will get white. Which white - will tell the last part of the formula.
- Y is 100% yellow. That is, Scandinavian white is just very light and unsaturated clean yellow, without impurities. If the formula was written, for example, Y10R - it would mean 10% R (red), and, appropriate, 90% y (yellow), since 100% should come out in the amount. If it were Y20G - you would receive 20% g (green) and, accordingly, 80% y (yellow).
It remains only to find the most similar offer from manufacturers. For example, Caparol manufactures tone, which is called - S 0502 y. Tikkurila has close shades "Jasmine" and "Calla". Farrow & Ball - White Tie 2002, Alcro - Aggskal.
2 Bring home store samples
If you still do not even know what you want, for example, pale blue or light green, choose the color of the walls for the walls will help the palette of samples that are in stores. Most often it is a card or fan with different colors and their names. Brings them home, attach to the wall and look after a couple of days to understand what you like more.
Do not limit yourself in choosing samples, try unexpected, bright and rich options. Perhaps you do not want to use them throughout the room, but inspire a contrasting wall.
Alexander Vereshchagin, Seller-consultant Categories "Paints" "Lerua Merlin Vyborg Highway":
Store samples are as close as possible to the final result. But it is necessary to understand that the printing coating on versions and cards still can not transmit the end result. The final look will affect the lighting of your room. At different times of the day and under lamps with different points of the glow, perception of not only finishing material, but also the textures of the surface of the surface, as well as the degree of gloss can be changed.
3 Select: Codeted or Cracker Material
The paint can be applied, with a finished accurate touch, which has already created a manufacturer for you. That is, if you know, for example, what you want a pale-blue wall, you just need to see how several close samples of the pale blue look on the wall.And if you know what you like the blue, but not sure, saturated or pale, you need an extinguishable option. That is, you will change it yourself by adding to the basic blue white.
4 Make doses
After you managed to choose an approximate color of paint for the walls of the room, and you started the exact choice of tone, go from the shopping samples printed on paper - it will give a complete understanding of how the surface will look like.
Designer Tatyana Zaitseva:
Be sure to take out, even if you are confident in choosing a material. If you do not want to apply them immediately to the surface, use a large watman sheet. It will make it clear how the material behaves at different times of the day and under different lamps. Thus, you will definitely be satisfied with the result and save the budget.
How to make scribes right
- You choose a plot on the wall on which you will experiment.
- Apply the material in 2-3 layers to the area at least 30x40 cm.
- Watch your feelings at least 2-3 days. During this time you have time to understand how the surface looks with poor and good light, as combined with the ceiling and floor. You can even try to stick a piece of paper sheets of that shade, which will be furnished in the room, for example, a sofa.
Alexander Vereshchagin, Seller-consultant Categories "Paints" "Lerua Merlin Vyborg Highway":
There are two ways to make a trial scree. The product line of manufacturers of finished melted materials often includes probes. You can purchase several such probes of close tones to select the optimal one. In the case of the acquisition of a clarified material for a test paint, you can buy a minimum volume bank and pull the tinting.
5 Focus on the palette in the entire apartment
Even if you have a task to repaint one room, you need to take into account what colors for walls in the rest of the rooms you have already chosen. Consider not only residential premises, but also a corridor, kitchen and bathroom. The more thoughtful color scheme throughout the interior, the more holistic and professional it seems. It often happens that in each room there are good and stylish color combinations, and in general, the perception of the apartment is not harmonious.
Even if you do not have a goal to withstand each room in one style and the furniture for the apartment was purchased at no one and does not fold into a single picture, the walls are just that element that will connect all the rooms together.
Designer Tatyana Zaitseva:
Even in different rooms, the walls should be combined with each other. It does not mean that they all should be gray or green. They simply have to be close by tone or be located next to the color circle. An exception can only be done for the children's room, because there is its own atmosphere.
6 Type the combination of walls and furniture
Selecting the finishing material, keep furniture and textiles in the head, which will be placed in the interior. Are there anything bright, emphasis among these elements, for example, a saturated red sofa with a velvet? Or, on the contrary, all the furniture is very concise and restrained, and you think the interior will be faded? Answers to these questions should be the basis in choosing finishing material.
Designer Tatyana Zaitseva:
Decide immediately what you want to make accent. If these are walls, then you can choose the pounds of bed, but if not - it will be better to stop on the brightest, neutral. In this case, consider that each color has its own tone, which makes it either warm or cold. Cold shades will not look harmonious next to warm. Therefore, combine warm with warm, cold with cold.
7 Change the unsuccessful shade
It happens that already during painting, you understand that you do not like the shade on the wall, and you can not pass into the store an open bank. In this case, it can be changed independently. Make it lighter simply by adding a white base. But you can add saturation by purchasing a special kel in the form of a paste.Alexander Vereshchagin, Seller-consultant Categories "Paints" "Lerua Merlin Vyborg Highway":
It is very important to understand that during self-adjustment of the tone it is extremely difficult to repeat in the future. It is worth remembering when staining a significant area when more than one paint can is used. In this case, it is carried out using a syringe in this case, for a more accurate and neat dosage. The Kraska is very thoroughly mixed using a special attachment on the drill. Tests are taken after each addition of a oscolarant or mixing with white paint.
8 Use different effects
Designer Tatyana Zaitseva also recommends using various decorative effects.
- Imitation of plaster, which is obtained by adding different materials, for example, shallow crumbs, sand. The difference from ordinary plaster will be a smaller coating thickness.
- The effect of silk, it transforms the room by overflows.
- Imitation of sand - like matte or pearl.
- The effect of "chameleon" - the painted coating changes the color depending on the angle of lighting.
- Velvet coating is created by adding solid particles that give an additional volume. Using such paint, you can create the effect of a "soft" surface.
