Color Consultant Recommendations?
We are having our entire apartment painted & I am feeling completely overwhelmed with paint color choices. The whites alone have my head spinning. Has anyone hired a color consultant to come in for an hour or two & develop a paint plan? Our budget is tight given other home projects we are taking on,…
We are having our entire apartment painted & I am feeling completely overwhelmed with paint color choices. The whites alone have my head spinning.
Has anyone hired a color consultant to come in for an hour or two & develop a paint plan? Our budget is tight given other home projects we are taking on, so I’m sure we can’t afford a full-on interior designer. But would like to know if others have used a color consultant & what it may have cost. Thank you!
It’s fairly new construction condo – about 4 years old. 2 bed/2 bath. Modern. Much light. I’m sure some would call it a loft, but it’s not (maybe a modern definition of a loft – which I feel is very loose these days).
What kind of apartment is it? That makes a big difference.
Jaguar, this is no joke. If you’ve never painted a place before, have zero experience with paint lines, and are paying someone a lot of money to paint a whole house all at once, a color consultation could be extremely helpful. You will avoid expensive mistakes and a lot of trouble.
Thank you so much for all the great advice & responses!
ilovebrooklyn: would very much appreciate her contact info…pls email me at nycpuggirl@yahoo.com
And for those who mock, whatever. We spent a lot of money purchasing our new home and plan on being it for a very long time. Why wouldn’t I want to make sure it’s the best it can be for us?
Great experience with the Sherwin Williams store: you can only buy their paint in their shops staffed with color specialists.
I just used a color consultant to help choose the paint colors in our renovation. I found her services really valuable — she helped us home in on good choices right away, and the palette really looks well thought out; we’ve been getting a lot of compliments from friends (like, “that’s the green I tried for twice but couldn’t manage to get!”). Basically she took our ideas and helped us find the right way to express them. If you’re interested, let me know how to email you and I’ll send you her contact info. (I don’t want to post her info on the site without asking her in advance.)
As to those who think a color consultant is a joke — paint colors have a huge effect on how a place looks, and there are far more inconsequential things you could spend a few hundred bucks on. Having good colors really makes a place look “done.”
My husband and I were up past midnight last night picking paint colors for our new apartment. We ended up narrowing down the choices and then letting our 6 year-old make the final decisions this morning (hence the bright pink bathroom). What’s the worst that could happen? It’s paint. If we hate it, we can re-paint it someday. We mostly went with lighter/neutral colors, to reduce the chances of ending up with something horrible or offensive. But I’m willing to throw caution to the wind. It adds to the excitement of having a new home.
Good luck!
Don’t rule out getting some help from the painter. When I had my place painted, I had a color scheme in mind and picked the colors I *thought* I wanted. The painter helped me adjust the colors a bit — he suggested a slightly different variation on some of the colors and then for the more extreme colors we bought sample size colors and painted them on the walls. This helped me decide in one room that I really wanted more of an orange-toned gold than a yellow-gold.
A color consultant? Is this a joke? Overwhelmed by all the color choices so you need somebody to come in and help you? No wonder people make fun of yuppies.