Choosing paint colours / samples

mel.b

I'll be moving into my new house in a couple of weeks and one of the first things i want to do is paint.

Currently the walls are quite an orange colour. Would i be best off to paint a wall or two white so i can get an accurate idea of what the samples look like? I'm worried that all the surrounding orange will effect how they look and i'll make the wrong decision.

Emcm

You could try painting pieces of White A4 paper or card and hang them up in various parts of the room where light effects it differently at different times of day would give you a good idea of how the paint looks in all parts of house.

Though when you do go to paint it might be no harm to kill the orange paint with White first as a strong colour might take coats of your expensive coloured paint to get rid of whereas a cheaper White might do the job quicker.

The above idea might just save you taking out the painting equipment twice.

nearzero

You can actually buy A4 paint panels from Colortrend! So you can check out your colour in different parts of the room & at different times of the day for light etc without the hassle of painting samples everything - very handy & cheap.

You will probably need some sort of tone of undercoat alright to get rid of the orange anyway before you paint your new colour!

Emcm

I must remember that Colour girl that would be so handy

paddy147

You can Crown and Fleetwood A4 sized colour cards in their Paint Centres too

DublinDIYguy

I think you should give all the walls a coat of white before making your colour choices. Paint your ceilings and walls white, finish your doors and woodwork (except skirting, leave till after walls).
Then try your chosen sample pieces in different places around the rooms and compare with furniture.
If you haven't bought your paint yet, get fleetwood high opacity white and then the colours mixed in fleetwood extra plus if you can. Very reasonably priced but great quality paints..