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Colors

Explore paint colors, finishes, and project size.

Compare sample exterior palettes, consider the finish for each surface, and explore an illustrative project estimate. Use these tools to organize your ideas, then confirm physical samples and project requirements before purchasing paint.

Tool 1 of 3

The right sheen for the surface

Sheen is how much light the finish throws back, and it decides whether a wall hides its flaws or shows them, and whether it wipes clean. Pick the surface. We say which one, why, and which ones we would talk you out of.

The surface

Interior walls

Eggshell

Eggshell is the middle: it wipes with a damp cloth, it does not glare, and it hides a normal wall. Halls with kids and dogs can go up to satin.

  1. Flat, avoid
  2. Matte, also fine
  3. Eggshell, recommended
  4. Satin
  5. Semi-gloss, avoid
  6. High gloss

our pick also fine avoid

Matte is also fine the walls have old patches and you want them to disappear.

Not flatScuffs and does not wipe. Fine in a ceiling or a guest room nobody touches.
Not semi-glossTurns a wavy old plaster wall into a map of every trowel mark, and it glares under a window.
Product
Premium interior acrylic, one product for walls; the good line is worth it in eggshell
Coats
Two coats rolled, cut lines brushed at ceiling and trim
Estimate interior walls

Tool 2 of 3

Try a scheme on the house

Six schemes we have painted, named for what is what, on a house we drew. Pick one and the new colours roll across. Or pick your own three and see if the trim still reads from the street.

BodyTrimDoor

Sage body, cream trim, oxblood door

Body LRV about 24

  • Body, trim, and door all read from the street. Good scheme.
A scheme
Or your own threestarts from the scheme above

Shutters follow the body, a few shades darker. Screens lie about colour; the sample on the wall is what you pick from.

Get this scheme estimated

Tool 3 of 3

Rooms or elevations to a number

Square feet of wall, the gallons two coats take, and a cost band. Doors and windows are taken out at fifteen percent, which is about right for most houses. A range for a conversation; the walk is where it becomes an estimate.

Inside or outside
How many rooms
3 rooms
About how big
Ceiling height
Also in the jobtap what applies

How we pick colour with you

Confirm the color in your own light.

  1. Samples on the wall, not chips in the store. Two feet square, in the real product and sheen, on the side of the house or the wall you look at most.
  2. Three days with them. Morning light, evening light, a cloudy afternoon. Colour changes more between those than between any two chips.
  3. The number on the back of the chip. LRV is how much light a colour reflects, 0 to 100. Under 15 on a body and the siding runs hot in the sun; over 70 and the shady side shows every streak.
  4. Trim first, then body, then door. The trim is the line the eye reads, and the door is where the colour goes.
Front entry with a six-panel door freshly finished in satin oxblood red, brass knocker, lever, and door-mounted mail slot, sidelights, white brick, black lantern sconces, and potted evergreens flanking a woven doormat.
The door is where the colour goesSatin oxblood on a six-panel door against white brick, picked from a sample board taped to the door for three days. Brass hardware back on, black lanterns either side.

Discuss your painting project

Share the scope, your priorities, and the timing you have in mind. This inquiry form is part of the 3Fold Labs website demonstration.

Discuss your projector call (555) 012-3456 (demo line)
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