Most people that hire a color expert or color consultant fall into three categories. The first category is homeowners that recently purchased or built a new home. They want their home color schemes to be inspired and reflect their own style and personalities.
The second category is homeowners who want to breathe new life and inspiration into their existing homes. For one reason or the other, the house has lost its excitement for them, and new colors are desperately needed. This type of job may accompany a whole home renovation or be a standalone interior/exterior color makeover.
The third category might surprise you, but it is anyone who lives in a place who is inspired to make a change in their own lives, and painting their home is the immediate, simple, and gratifying way to make that happen!
But why hire a color expert to help design home color schemes or palettes?
In this article, we are going to explore three significant benefits to hiring a color expert. Here’s why it’s the best choice to make if you find yourself in either of the three categories mentioned above.
1. A Color Expert Will Lead You Down The Path To Discovery
Clarity is what a great color consultant will provide. There are so many decisions to make when creating a home color scheme & color palette for your home; it’s hard to filter out the noise.
The outside influence from friends, websites, magazines and blogs can be exhausting. You may become so over-indulged with different color advice that you forget what your tastes and preferences were in the first place!
A color consultant will not lead you astray down the wrong path. They will walk you through the steps of the discovery process to best understand what your design tastes are. From there, a color expert will apply their knowledge and experience to discover solutions that you will not regret in 5, 10, or perhaps 20 years!
A great color expert is not going to let you fall into the trap of picking out the loudest, trendiest, or most conventional color choices for your home. Color inspiration doesn’t mean color imitation.
You can trust a color expert to involve you in the process to discover what your desires are and help you not fall into misguided traps and trends.
2. A Color Expert Will Look at Your Home Color Schemes and Home as a Whole
Home color schemes cannot be looked at individually, space by space. It’s a color expert’s job to look at your home holistically; to look at the color palette of your entire space, big or small.
Mood and flow are two attributes of the home that all great color experts are sensitive too. A room may need more subtle colors to create a relaxed and calm atmosphere. Or perhaps bolder colors, for a more lively and energized mood. Color consultants will listen to your desired “feel” for a room, and then make the color suggestions to best suit your tastes while matching the mood of a space.
A color expert will see how the exterior color choices flow into the interior color choices. Look at how the front door’s color flows into the entrance hall. How the kitchen flows into the dining room. Learning how to coordinate colors from room to room to have balance, flow, and logic is something that takes years of practice to do well.
The best color experts will bring this gift into your home. The final product will be one unified color palette that feels good the minute you walk into a space, rather than a disjointed puzzle of colors that leaves your family and guests confused and possibly even physically uncomfortable.
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3. A Color Expert Will Guide You To Think Differently About The Colors in You Life!
Perhaps the greatest benefit of hiring a color expert is that they will open your mind to new color possibilities. Exciting options that you would have never considered before. We all have different tastes, personalities, and design choices. What we also share is the ability to expand our horizons and find inspiration in new places.
A color expert’s job is to expose a homeowner to ideas about color in their home that they may have never discovered on their own.
Sure, a color expert will walkthrough (or virtually tour) your home to learn about it. They will account for lighting conditions, trim work, soft furnishings, furniture, unique design features, and featured pieces of art. All of the technical details play a big part in the services that color consultants and color experts provide. However, if it was strictly about measurements, wavelengths, and technical understanding, it would be much easier to let computers do the job. But it’s not!
There’s an important interaction between color experts and clients that happens throughout the discovery process.
What can be exciting is the process of exploration where the color expert offers colors, contrast levels, saturations, color combinations and whole color palettes, that might surprise you!
Seeing new ideas and opening yourself up to a new look or maybe even an upcoming trend, opens up a whole world of inspiration! If a color expert has the experience and expertise, they might even just nudge you to try colors a little, or maybe even completely outside of your comfort zone.
You will learn to think about color differently and find inspiration in places that you never knew existed. A color expert is going to force you to think outside the box, and look at color in a different light!
To learn more about color and color inspiration, please get in touch regarding any color questions you may have!
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You certainly know what you’re talking about, Amy, as you’re one of the country’s top color experts!
Sincerest thanks Leslie! Helping people improve their lives through the use of color, is truly my mission in life!
Great post Amy.
Most homeowners just simply pick a color with little thought of surroundings, flow, furnishings and light factors. This post will definitely help them see there is so much more involved.
Thanks Jana, yes there is so much more to picking the best paint color or creating the best color palette, than people realize!
I love everything you said in this article about why you should hire a color expert. It is so true that the outside influence from friends, websites, magazines and blogs can be exhausting and a color expert can help you cut through all of that. It is so important to look at the color scheme of the whole house from outside to inside and the flow between rooms. So many people do not think of that. And it is really nice when you can open people’s minds to new and exciting possibilities about color.
Thanks so much Mary Ann, I know you appreciate color just as much as I do, and I am so happy to stopped by to check out this post!
Great information! The third category did surprise me, but it was relatable. I used to change my hair every time I felt the need for a change like that.
Thanks Simone, changing your colors is a great way of making a change in your life. I love your hair comparison, both a great ways to make a fresh start!
Great synopsis, Amy! Saving the world from HGTV gray, one house at a time LOL.
Your are so right Janet, one house at a time 🙂
What a great post on color! I agree that a holistic approach is best.
Absolutely, and experience guides me as to what approach to take with every homeowner. Thanks Lisa!
Your three reasons are perfect! Many people truly do not ‘get’ what goes into choosing a colour. Wonderful post, Amy!
Thanks so much Sheri, it is more of a skill than people realize and I am proud to say that I love helping people with their colors of their homes!