{"id":63,"date":"2012-12-04T15:35:10","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T15:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a1webdesignteam.com\/blog\/?p=63"},"modified":"2012-12-04T15:35:10","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T15:35:10","slug":"house-paint-colors-tips-and-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a1webdesignteam.com\/blog\/house-paint-colors-tips-and-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"House Paint Colors: Tips and Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that about 40 percent of all paint purchases are made as a result of an original color mistake?<br \/>\nIf you don&#8217;t want to contribute to this statistics, learn about the factors that affect your final paint color results.<\/p>\n<p>1, Tweaking and Matching Paint Colors<br \/>\nTrying to find just the perfect shade for paintin<\/p>\n<div>g your space? Here are the 3 main things you can tweak in a house paint color &#8211; increase or decrease its value, crank up or tone down its intensity, or shift its undertone&#8230;<br \/>\n2, Matching Paint Color Undertones: Why Do It?<br \/>\nWhen ignored or poorly matched, house paint color undertones can create real dissonance in your home color scheme and make your design elements look odd and unrelated. See for yourself why undertones are such a big deal in color design.<br \/>\n3, Tips for Paint Color Matching<br \/>\nTips and tricks of the trade to help you find that perfect match: we&#8217;ll cover the right lighting you should use when matching colors, the correct position when holding paint swatches against different surfaces, and the importance of getting undertones right.<br \/>\n4, How to Make Large Paint Color Swatches<br \/>\nSo, are you convinced that it&#8217;s much easier to arrive at the right color with the help of oversized paint color swatches and want to give this method a try? Here are the step-by-step instructions and photographs of the process.<br \/>\n5, How to Use Color Paint Chips<br \/>\nIn a nutshell: start small (use the regular small paint chips in a paint deck to narrow down your color options to no more than 5 shades), and finish big (painting some sample boards and testing the colors in different light will help reveal the final &#8220;keeper&#8221;).<br \/>\nEtc&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that about 40 percent of all paint purchases are made as a result of an original color mistake? If you don&#8217;t want to contribute to this statistics, learn about the factors that affect your final paint color results. 1, Tweaking and Matching Paint Colors Trying to find just the perfect shade for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/a1webdesignteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/a1webdesignteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/a1webdesignteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a1webdesignteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a1webdesignteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/a1webdesignteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/a1webdesignteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a1webdesignteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a1webdesignteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}