Kitchen Colors - Choosing The Right Paint Color

When it comes to Kitchen Colors choosing the right paint color is essential to your overall color scheme. When you think about painting a room it's usually thought as one of the more simple tasks of an entire home project. No need to build, nail or install anything just open the can, dip the brush and slap the paint up on the walls and let it dry. Fast, easy, no problem! Well if only it were so easy. It might be easy for those on those home makeover shows where they get the whole room painted to perfection in less than 30 seconds but, in my experience in the real world that 30 minutes seem to easily extend into days. So with that real world fact out in the open one of the biggest challenges that I face when I wanted to repaint my kitchen in the popular home makeover 30 minute style was what exactly the color scheme I was looking to use for my application. Luckily I've been down the road before so I knew exactly what I was getting into. I hope the following tips and experience  will help you greatly in your next project.

Shades Of Many Different Colors

When it comes to Kitchen Colors these days there are more shades than you know what to do with. To further complicate things some of the brighter colors require the use of a primer to bring out the full intensity of the shade your looking for. This can add a great deal to the material cost and application time due to the added materials required and time needed for the application. When I start my kitchen painting project I make sure I adhere to the golden 60-30-10 rule. This means that 60% of my color will go on the walls, the other 30% will be applied to the "attached" items in the kitchen like cabinets, and the other 10% will be used for the finishing touches on accessories, handles, or anything else that is left over that needs a splash of color. To achieve your ideal 3 shades of color it's best to start out with deciding on what your primary 3 colors are going to be. What I mean by a primary color is a basic color of red, blue, brown, black, orange, green, and yellow. Basically the colors of the rainbow. Once you have identified your primary colors then you can start looking at the different shades available for each color involved. You do this by making a visit to your local homeimprovement store and gather some different swatches of color shades that you like that are representative of your 3 primary colors. What you want to do then is take the swatches home and tape them up on the walls and cabinets and accessories of your kitchen and see how they look in the actual space that you are intending to paint as shown above.

Testing Makes Perfect

OK! You've decided on your 3 primary shades of Kitchen Colors and you just love them so your now ready to go out and purchase the paint and get started right? WRONG! Hold your horses one second we need to do some testing first so you are 100% sure that the colors you have chosen for your kitchen are going to look good. This is what you do, yougo to your friendly home improvement and have them mix you a small sample of each color you want. This will cost you a little money but not nearly as much as it it will cost if you paint the entire room and then decide you don't like it. Take these samples home and paint each sample on the wall next to each other in your kitchen. Let it dry and observe! Let it be on your wall for a few days, let it sink in so you are 100% sure that the colors you have chosen are going to work for your project. If you have any doubt whatsoever on any particular shade then go back to step one and go back to the swatches and repaint a sample on your wall until your 100% sure!

The Day Has Arrived!

You got your final 3 shades of Kitchen Colors chosen, you've had some test patches up on your wall for a few days and your 100% sure on what your 60-30-10 color scheme will be. Take the swatches to your home improvement warehouse or wherever you buy paint and have them custom mix your colors for you. If your painting on the cheap you could locate  paint recyclers and buy some primary colors and mix the colors yourself! Whichever way you choose to go when you get the final paint mixes home I recommend doing a final wall test and compare them with your other test spots to make sure they have the proper tint in the paint. If all looks good at that point your going to be ready to prep, tape and paint! Unless your really good it's going to take you more than 30 minutes like it does on TV but however long it takes, because your painting your kitchen with the colors you choose it will be your custom project coming to life! That my friends is just a good feeling!

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