Latest Tech to Help You Decide on Paint Colors 

Choosing a paint color for the interior or exterior spaces of a home can be torturously challenging! Questions come up as to what color will look best in your home’s neighborhood and environment. What color will you enjoy for many years to come? How do you decide on an accent color or color for trim? These questions can be overwhelming for homeowners facing the large wall of samples available at a typical hardware or design store. 

Thankfully, technology that has evolved at a rapid rate in the past few years can help make the decision-making process a little less challenging. Let’s take a closer look at some of our favorite technology features that will allow you to experiment with colors that strike your fancy without having to invest in a million samples. 

Benjamin Moore’s Personal Color Viewer

We are committed to using only the highest quality paints. That means we choose Benjamin Moore Paints. Not only is Benjamin Moore known as top quality paint, but they are also advanced in the technology that they have for desktop and mobile users to test the colors they are considering using on the interior or exterior of a home. 

The Personal Color Viewer® allows users to explore what different colors look like in their space. For instance, homeowners can upload their own room photos or use the sample rooms provided by Benjamin Moore. They choose a color for the walls, ceiling, and trim and voila, they can see it on their screen!

Users of the Personal Color Viewer® can create up to 5 surfaces on a photo that they would like to explore. Don’t want to take pictures of your home? Try using Benjamin Moore images of bathrooms, dining areas, kitchens, and living areas to test out a variety of colors without even leaving your home! 

Color Matching

Found the perfect shade of gray at your friend’s home but they don’t have the name of the color or a sample they can lend you? There’s a technology that can help you out of this bind. Color Muse offers on-the-spot color matching from a vast library across various industries, according to Apartment Therapy online. 

According to the Color Muse app, “Once you’ve found your dream color, the app will pair it with a matching paint color that you can compare side-by-side and decorate within a virtual room, getting you one step closer to nailing your creative vision.”

If you are not loyal to a certain brand, you can test out Paint Tester. Here you can take a photo with your phone and upload it directly to Paint Tester to access a variety of paint options from more than one brand. 

Remember, when choosing a paint color, especially when you have lowered your choices using software, try the color on several surfaces in the space and watch how the color changes as the natural light changes in the room. This will give you the best idea of how the color will look throughout the day in your space. 

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