Color: Technology to Help You Decide

I am just having too much fun with this project not to share. Choosing paint colors can be difficult. When it's an exterior color you are choosing, it can be downright stressful. Exterior paint is more expensive and more of a pain to change if you don't like it, so you want to get it right the first time. A lot of times it's hard for people to visualize what a new color scheme will looks like. Technology to the rescue! Many paint brands have online tools that will let you upload a photo of your house or room and then mess with colors. They can be fun or a real headache depending. I often use plain old PhotoScape to give clients an idea of what their home will look like. It's not an exact science, you still have to go to the store and get paint chips to choose exactly the right color, but it can help people get over that first hurdle of imagination--and it's much cheaper than repainting an exterior!

Here we have a late 80s home with brown and tan trim. Today's color schemes lean toward lighter colors in more of a gray tone so the second photo shows what the house could look like. We can even cut and paste doors, windows, shutters, etc. so that people can envision the end result.

How it looks.

How it could look....