White paint help!!
lisa3holdsworth
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What is the best white or near white paint for rooms which are dark?
Comments (15)@courton, I've been in a quandry since purchasing a sample pot of Lexicon as it was visibly blue although not so much in the quarter strength, but I too want a warm colour and not a cool colour. I have a sample of Dulux Light Rice quarter possibly for the walls and Dulux Natural White for the roof but I'm still not sure. I wanted to stick to brown tones as that is what seems to catch my eye and Light Rice is the lightest colour in the dulux colour wall in the browns and the Natural White simply tones in with it and no other reason. Will still have to wait till I can paint up a sample but I previously tried Stucco and Harbour Stone and both were a bit too caramely for me and too coloured if that makes sense, even though I have seen Stucco in a bedroom and kitchen and it looked great but just isn't working for me now that I've tried it myself. Interesting how you can see a colour in someone else's home and it looks great but when you try it yourself, you hate it!!! I have allot of windows and door ways and very little wall area and I don't want a jigsaw effect of colour running around these areas and be jumping out at me when I walk into the home, instead I want to have to look for the walls and barely see colour....See MoreHELP! Choosing "white" paint for walls.
Comments (35)I had the same problem too. I rang Dulux and had a paint consultant come in. I have chosen the white exchange full strength throughout the double story house as we have a lot of natural light with vivd white ceilings and WA white doors and trims. The bedrooms I have 1/2 strength white exchange with vivd white ceilings. I wanted my white kitchen to pop with the wall paint colour. Our kitchen cupboards are polar silk white with moose silk contrasting and ice snow bench tops. Hopefully it all blends with the spotted gum floorboards. We have not installed the kitchen yet. I hope it all comes together. Good luck....See MoreNeed helping choosing white paint colour for our apartment!!??
Comments (3)We use Lexicon Half on the walls and ceilings of our beach house. We were very confused as to which white. In the end went with our painter's suggestion. Don't over think it!...See MoreHelp with white paint throwing blue!
Comments (10)Any poorly lit room is going to throw blue or purple. It's not the paint colour it's the light spectrum and the quality of the light that's making it into the room. Go outside and look at any area of the yard that's shaded. Our brains tell us that shadow is black, but if you really look at the colour, not what you know about the colour, most shadows are a shade of blue, because that's the light spectrum occuring there. Artists know this, if you look at how they paint shadows they are almost always using a shade of blue or purple to do so. So what can you do about it? It's not usually a good idea to paint a dark room that doesn't get much natural light white or near white. That only serves to highlight how dismal the natural light in the room is since what you are getting is a dose of the light spectrum in that area. I had a very dark room with such low levels of natural light (owing to overgrown trees directly outside) that you needed the light on during the day to see anything. I painted that room a very deep shade of blue. Far from looking cold and dark, it became a very cosy and delightful room. Work with the light you have, rather than trying to fake it. Dark rooms actually look best painted an intense shade. The lack of natural light ensures that the colour doesn't overpower and instead ends up looking inviting. You can paint poorly lit rooms shades that you could never get away with in brightly lit rooms. But since you've already painted it, what you can do is put some very intense furnishings in there. Use colour blocking to draw attention away from the wall colour. You have predominantly blue light in that room. Also a warm daylight lamp will help....See Moresiriuskey
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