How to Select the Best Paint Color for a Room

With so many paint colors available on the market, a consumer may not know how to pick just one for a project. Optimum results can be achieved when using art color theories to help make the decision. Deciding the color of a room mostly comes down to personal preference.

• Consider the colors of the decor items, furniture and flooring in the room. These are perhaps the most important factors in choosing a paint color. Paint sample cards can often be brought home from a home improvement or paint store to compare to items in a room.


• Visit a paint store location that offers color matching technology. This new technology allows the consumer to bring an item from their room, like a pillow or rug, and match its color exactly to a paint.


• Think about how you want the room to feel. Warm colors are known for bringing a bright and cheery mood to a room while cooler colors, like green and blue, are known to be relaxing. Maybe relaxing colors would be appropriate in a bedroom and brighter choices for use in a living room.


• Watch out for plain white colors. Consider whites that have a bit of shade to tone down the brightness a bit. Stains also stick out like a sore thumb on white paint. Children often spill food or drinks that can easily stain a white wall.


• Pick complementary colors for an eye catching look. Art color theories say that the colors orange and blue, purple and yellow and red and green go well together.