A free colour tool
Same paint,
different room.
Choose a colour, the way your window faces and the time of day. Watch how the paint shifts before you buy a single sample pot.
Most colour regret comes from choosing in a shop and living with it in a north facing room. This is the conversation we have at every colour consultation.
North light is steady but cool and grey. It pulls blues and greys colder and makes greens look heavier. Warm based colours hold up best.
An approximation of how light colour and strength shift a paint. Use it to narrow a shortlist, then paint a sample board and look at it at these same times.
Light and colour
Questions
we get asked.
- What colours work in a north facing room?
- Colours with a warm base, such as stones, warm whites and earthy greens. North light is blue and grey, so cool greys and blues often look cold and flat. If you love a cool colour, go a shade deeper rather than paler.
- Why does my grey look blue, or green, or purple?
- Most greys have a hidden undertone. The light in the room picks it out. North light brings out blue, warm bulbs bring out yellow and green, and a lot of foliage outside the window can add green too.
- Should I go lighter in a dark room?
- Not always. A pale colour in poor light just looks grey and dull. A deeper, warmer colour can make a dim room feel deliberate and enclosed in a good way.
Still undecided
Let us bring
the boards.
We can bring painted sample boards to your house and look at them with you in your own light, at the times of day you use the room.
One colour that works in Fife light, every month.