Solutions & Tips • 14 Feb 2021
White paint is currently on trend, but the point that can be really challenging is to choose the right one. Use these five tips to help you choose the best-fit white paint for you.
What points to consider when choosing a paint?
With just a quick browsing through Instagram or Pinterest, you will immediately discover you that white home decor is still on trend and popular, although many years have past since this trend emerged.
We conducted a poll on our Twitter account about the best colors our followers like for their rooms’ paint, and it was indicated that most subscribers voted for white as their best choice for nearly every major room in their home. Still, if you have ever stood in front of a wall with white paint samples displayed at a paint store or tried our visualizer on our website, then you know that choosing the best-fit white paint is not that easy at all. for that, to help you choose the right white paint, here are 5 of the most important tips.
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1. Values of the secondary color tones
2. Consider the natural lighting and building orientation.
3. Choose a white paint that is suitable for your space.
4. Compare between the different white paint options available.
5. Contemplate the emotions generated by the white paint.
1. Values of the secondary color tones
There is an easy way that will relieve you from choosing the extremely creamy or snowy tones. All you need to do is to place the white paint sample beside a white piece of printer paper. This will help you determine if the white paint in front of you is a warm white (red, yellow, or orange subtones) or a quiet white (blue or gray tones).
Here, the secondary color value will reveal itself immediately. Thus, you will have stepped closer to determining your choice of white paint based on its secondary colors’ tone.
Consider the natural lighting and building orientation.
Al-Jazeera Paint’s technicians recommend avoid using white paint for north-facing rooms or a room without natural light such as a small makeup room. This is because a lack of natural light in a room like this can make calm whites look sombre, and warm whites will look dark. On the other side, East-west rooms with natural lighting can be painted in warm, quiet, or pure white and will look great still.
3. Choose a white paint that is suitable for your space.
Al-Jazeera Paints’ experts advise that before you choose a white color from the color pattern file, you should think first about the design of your home. A modern design may be suited best with pure white paint, but other designs may harmonize best with other tones; for example, in a Tuscan style home, the white used in art galleries will appear blue, because the contrast is too great between the traditional white and the earthy Tuscan limestone. As our experts state, “you will not get a new cast, but it will rather look like an unpainted base paint”.
Compare the different white paint options available.
While everyone wants to have a ready-made list of white paints that are appropriate no matter what, the answer is “there is no magical answer”. “What you really need is a good basis for comparisons”.
Although preparing some samples may be awkward, it cannot b e compared to repainting a room after painting it with the wrong color in the first time. for that, think of colors swatches as another tool for painting.
Also, make sure the swatches are of sufficient size. Bring your swatches and place them on the wall. “Check them at different times of the day to see how the light interacts with and its impact on the color and with the rest of the room. By comparing one white tone to another - even if you are not a color expert - your instinct or your eyes will tell you the most appropriate color for you”.
Consider How White Makes You Feel
Contemplate the emotions generated by the white paint deep down you.
Before choosing what appears to be the ideal color definitely, you should think about the emotions that the color creates in you and its physiological impact on you. For example, if you choose the purest white paint color, you should know that it may cause eye fatigue, and in some cases headaches, besides that it may really affect your eyesight and create an illusory brightness that really disturbs the eye; in addition, it will not be comfortable when you are sitting in this room for an extended period”.
Color engineers at Al-Jazeera Paints recommend that the types of warm white paints are the easiest to live with in the distant future.
