Paint - Know your Sunshine!
This is one of those painful life lessons. Sunlight (or lack of natural light) changes how a paint color appears in a room.
Hopefully this will solve some of those "mysteries" whereby homeowners wonder if a painter changed out the paint color (or brand) because the paint looks different in certain rooms.
Paint - Know Your Sunshine!
Having just finished a big painting job, I have learned a big lesson. No, I didn't do any of the painting, I just made the painting decisions. And I made a bad decision! Paint - Know Your Sunshine.
Although I've painted for many years in many houses, I hadn't experienced the light differences of my current home. This particular home is a 2 story with north/south exposure like a lot of Arizona homes. I'm used to single story homes. This type of exposure means darker rooms in some areas as the southern sun has brighter exposure and some of my rooms have no southern or east/west exposure. Paint - Know Your Sunshine.
Due to directional sun exposure, light can change from room to room. Light exposure also changes paint color. So, using the same paint color in a variety of rooms produces different shades of the same paint, even if it's from the same can.
So, if you're planning on painting the same paint color in different rooms, walk from room to room with the paint palet and see what happens on different walls with different sun exposures. The differences might surprise you. You might also try doing this at different times of the day, depending on which direction the room is facing with sun exposure.
Learning this valuable lesson was expensive as I chose one paint color based on one view. I found that the color was hideous in some rooms and acceptable in others. I've since repainted with a different color. An expensive lesson - Paint - Know Your Sunshine!
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