Comments on: How to Choose Colors for Your Home http://www.thatpainterlady.com/how-to-choose-colors-for-your-home/ Interior Paint Ideas for your home. Debra Conrad THAT Painter Lady answers your questions about decorating, style and painting your home. Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:59:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: THAT Painter Lady http://www.thatpainterlady.com/how-to-choose-colors-for-your-home/comment-page-1/#comment-11973 THAT Painter Lady Tue, 08 Feb 2011 03:37:32 +0000 http://www.thatpainterlady.com/?p=666#comment-11973 Gemma - What a GREAT idea!! I love the idea of taking a roll of wallpaper and making it a sample of colors for a client! 1 meter = 3.28 feet (for those of us - like me! - that are metrically challenged!)...so 1/2 square meter would still be about a foot and a half of sample color. Sooo much better than that 2 inch little square paint chip. And I like that you can roll it up and take it with you. Again, easier than painting it on a 3 foot by 2 foot square of foam core poster board. Excelllent EXCELLENT tip! Thanks for sharing!!! Tawn - THAT Painter Lady Gemma -
What a GREAT idea!! I love the idea of taking a roll of wallpaper and making it a sample of colors for a client! 1 meter = 3.28 feet (for those of us – like me! – that are metrically challenged!)…so 1/2 square meter would still be about a foot and a half of sample color. Sooo much better than that 2 inch little square paint chip. And I like that you can roll it up and take it with you. Again, easier than painting it on a 3 foot by 2 foot square of foam core poster board. Excelllent EXCELLENT tip! Thanks for sharing!!!

Tawn – THAT Painter Lady

]]> By: Gemma http://www.thatpainterlady.com/how-to-choose-colors-for-your-home/comment-page-1/#comment-11915 Gemma Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:57:00 +0000 http://www.thatpainterlady.com/?p=666#comment-11915 Hi there, after a very long time I found a specialist who stocks my favourite paint, which is the British made Crown. I like Dulux too, but it is harder to find in the Netherlands. Here in NL matchpots are unknown and colour choice is something of a gamble, especially with a 2,5 liter (1/2 gallon) costing €60. My specialist does have matchpots of course ... but I am a professional and I don't want to smear all sorts of colours across client's walls, especially if they haven't actually bought the house yet ;-) I had a brainwave ... the matchpot from Painting the Past was enough for 1 square metre, or 1/2 SqM if painted twice as it should be. Out came an old roll of wallpaper and it got itself painted in the appropriate colours. I could roll it up, take it with me on my bicycle and show my clients all the colours they liked - and it could be on the dark wall or the sunny wall, or wherever they wanted to see the colour. Of course, mixing and matching were also possible using this technique. I also have a collection of A4 (foolscap) sized colour cards which I make each time I use a new colour of gloss paint. It gives a much better impression than the small thumb sized patches on the colour-matching cards. I am updating my website soon, and my photos of these colour cards will be there on full view! I have been showing my clients the "Heritage Colours" - the traditional colours from the past, which would all be naturally occurring dyes of one kind or another. These are modern dyes with modern colour-fastness but in the old colours - and they are immensely popular amongst my clients. "Trendy en Modern" said one client ... modern? This is a colour from the 18th century! Best wishes, Gemma Laming Hi there, after a very long time I found a specialist who stocks my favourite paint, which is the British made Crown. I like Dulux too, but it is harder to find in the Netherlands.

Here in NL matchpots are unknown and colour choice is something of a gamble, especially with a 2,5 liter (1/2 gallon) costing €60. My specialist does have matchpots of course … but I am a professional and I don’t want to smear all sorts of colours across client’s walls, especially if they haven’t actually bought the house yet ;-)

I had a brainwave … the matchpot from Painting the Past was enough for 1 square metre, or 1/2 SqM if painted twice as it should be. Out came an old roll of wallpaper and it got itself painted in the appropriate colours. I could roll it up, take it with me on my bicycle and show my clients all the colours they liked – and it could be on the dark wall or the sunny wall, or wherever they wanted to see the colour. Of course, mixing and matching were also possible using this technique. I also have a collection of A4 (foolscap) sized colour cards which I make each time I use a new colour of gloss paint. It gives a much better impression than the small thumb sized patches on the colour-matching cards.

I am updating my website soon, and my photos of these colour cards will be there on full view!

I have been showing my clients the “Heritage Colours” – the traditional colours from the past, which would all be naturally occurring dyes of one kind or another. These are modern dyes with modern colour-fastness but in the old colours – and they are immensely popular amongst my clients. “Trendy en Modern” said one client … modern? This is a colour from the 18th century!

Best wishes, Gemma Laming

]]> By: Paint Colors – Decor And Paint Color: Setting The Mood In The Master Bedroom http://www.thatpainterlady.com/how-to-choose-colors-for-your-home/comment-page-1/#comment-8244 Paint Colors – Decor And Paint Color: Setting The Mood In The Master Bedroom Tue, 01 Jun 2010 06:41:15 +0000 http://www.thatpainterlady.com/?p=666#comment-8244 [...] Colors are important. Learn more at ThatPainterLady.com and get practical advice that shows you how to choose paint colors for your home. [...] [...] Colors are important. Learn more at ThatPainterLady.com and get practical advice that shows you how to choose paint colors for your home. [...]

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