paint colors for room with east and west facing windows
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Paint Color for East-Facing Room
Comments (9)It doesn't have anything to do with temperature -- unless color temperature is significantly meaningful to your personal color tolerance. i.e. a preponderance for warm colors and you choose to meet that tolerance. It's about nuance. Partner the perfect pitch of nuance with inherent light source. In a nutshell, that's what color consultants do. 99.9% of them don't know that's what they're doing, but it is. They think they're matching color, pulling color, aligning undertones, aligning color temperature, aligning tone, yadda, yadda, yadda. Deconstructed the essence of every color quest is about how to get color right to work with natural and/or artificial inherent light. You can choose any hue, either color temperature and any lightness value for any exposure of intermediate / cardinal direction. As long as the pitch of nuance is right. Nuance is a focus and consideration of two dimensions of color at the same time. Saturation + Lightness Value (LRV) = Nuance. How you determine what hue, color temperature and lightness value is to identify the kind of atmosphere (or mood) you want to create. Because Hue + Color Temperature + Lightness Value (LRV) + Nuance = Atmosphere. Easy peasy, right? ;) Light quality influences and defines in situ color but in situ color does not influence quality of light. Because the light is boss. Always. Been online in #SoMe for many years, I read a lot of blogs, FB pages, sites, etc. and I've never once seen anyone speak to this aspect of color correctly. Most of it's the same stupid bullsh1t repeated over and over. Stuff like north light is blue so it will turn yellow paint color green. Ridiculous. It's like that old game Telephone - a game of Telephone gone horribly, horribly wrong. Unfortunately, urban legends, myths and totally bogus color tips and tricks are all a big part of what makes blogosphere go 'round....See Morebest paint color for west facing rooms
Comments (2)Depends on how much sun you get in the afternoon. In general, I'd stick with cooler colors (blues/greens/violets) rather than reds/yellows/oranges. Lucky for you, the cool colors are very in fashion right now. But keep in mind that a room is more than the color on the walls. It's the sum of all its parts. Make a plan and come up with a color palette and style for the room, then select the wall color last....See MorePaint for a room with both west/east light exposure
Comments (1)open space with the dining room having west facing windows and the living room having east facing light The geographic direction of windows and doors isn't that important because the characteristic of the light changes throughout the day. What does matter is how much daylight and with windows from two exposures, you have quite a bit. I would like to paint the walls white and am looking for suggestions on paint or undertone in general. Every color including colors of white belongs to a hue family. Hue family is determined objectively based on the color's DNA. Undertone is the wrong way to think about color, especially choosing paint colors, because undertones are just someone's subjective opinion made in some random context under some random light source - and their perception of a color has nothing to do with the reality of context and light you have to work with. When it comes to white paint colors, this is important to understand for a couple reasons. #1 an objective categorization of whites by hue family makes it a whole lot easier to understand the core characteristics of white paint colors. #2 you can just use a color notation to find out what hue family a color belongs to, there is no visual gymnastics or shuffling of paint chips involved. but the floors are the same Use the floors and the stone in the fireplace to help you zero in on the right white. If you make sure the white looks pretty with the FP and the floors, you'll essentially create an "envelope" of color; a color coordinated shell for the essential contents like furniture, rug, art. Gather the paint chips for the colors on this infographic. It's a collection of whites from different hue families and evaluating this range of whites from different hue families will help you figure out what hue family neighborhood harmonizes best with the FP, floor and the light you have to work with so you can get the look you want....See MoreEast Facing Room Paint Change HELP
Comments (7)I rather like the texture. It looks nice. Its only a problem in some parts of the country. Its not popular where I live, but, it is other places I have lived in the past. I would however, paint the ceiling white. It will brighten the room up and right now, that room looks a bit dark....See Moreteacats
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