Choosing the Perfect Paint Color

If you have been around this blog, you know a couple of things (and if it’s your first time here, you are about to find out)

1. I love color

2. We live in a rental home.

Living in a rental home means all the walls are a flat off-white. I get around that by adding lots of color to our decor like the master bedroom.

It is not that I am not allowed to paint the walls – I am – as long as we paint it back or pay for it to be painted when we leave. Given that it is (hopefully) a temporary situation, I choose not to put the time and effort into painting walls, even though I have been itching to! 

Picking Paint Color for the Dining Room –

I have been slowly adding pieces to our dining room. It has its touches of color like my red sideboard and a few red chairs. I recently added this beautiful DIY buffet too! There is a dining table on my “to build” list too. However, in general, it was lacking the “wow factor”. It seemed too stark! I started dreaming about what it would be like if that wall was painted a fun color – something that would highlight that beautiful buffet! 

It was almost meant to be when Dunn-Edwards reached out to me to try out their Free professional color advisor service! I couldn’t say yes fast enough!

You might not realize given my bold color choices on furniture but I am always skeptical about my color choices. Choosing a color for a piece of furniture is a lot less intimidating than a picking a color for a wall! There is no way to hide it out of sight of visitors if you end up picking a horrible color!

That’s where Dunn-Edwards has you completely covered! I was so amazed at their FREE profession color advisor service! I just made an appointment and showed up with all my inspiration, room pictures and an extremely indecisive mix of ideas! I wanted greens and reds and blue… he broke everything down so nicely and helped me clarify to myself, what I really wanted!

Let’s Talk Inspiration for the Color Choice –

As inspiration for the color choice, I used my favorite pillow covers from India. My living room has a lot of fabric, art and statues from India – think lots of color and brass – I wanted to transition that effect into the adjoining dining room. 

I was so sure I wanted that green-blue to match the pillows but the color advisor also suggested looking at the dark blue with a purple undertone… the least occurring color – to make it the accent wall and bring everything together. I was very conflicted. If you have a few days, they can even render the space so you can see what it looks like with the colors on your shortlist! Good thing they do, because I hated my top choice of color in that setting!

Choice of Color for the Accent Wall –

My final choice was – Tried and True Blue in their Everest paint line which is zero VOC and self-priming. Yes, I went with the least occurring color like the professional color advisor suggested! I picked it in the flat finish so we don’t get glare from the large windows next to the wall. 

Dunn-Edwards has everything you need to paint in store. The color advisor even told me the exact process flow to follow to paint the wall!

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Time to Paint!

Check out the video! It took me 3 hours to paint the whole thing including 2 hours of drying time. Just look at that amazing impact in the after pictures!!!

The Everest paint was really nice to use – it had virtually no odor at all – something I was so happy about since we eat every meal here and it is right next to the kitchen. It had great flow and leveling. I didn’t have to worry about drips at all!

I was in love with my buffet and used just stand and stare at it 😉 Now I have a whole wall to stare! It looks amazing! All the decor looks so much more fun and brighter! The wall definitely ties everything together! Look at that rich color –

I would highly recommend you try out their Free professional color advisor service. It is such a great service, I can’t believe it is free!

I leave you once again with the before and after pictures to admire the power of paint and 3 hours!