Here's another tool from House Beautiful magazine that will help you get an idea of what your plain-Jane bedroom might look like in "Dellwood Sand", "O'Reilly Green" or a multitude of other paint choices from Benjamin Moore, Sherwin-Williams and Valspar before you head out to your local paint store.
The House Beautiful Paintbrush: Online Paint Color Picker
We're not even planning to paint our apartment currently, but find ourselves playing with the HB Paintbrush online application just for the sheer joy of testing out unique colour combinations. What's the worry when it's not permanent and doesn't cost you a cent?
How it works:
- Pick a room type from a drop-down menu, then click on the image below.
- Pick the area of the room you want to paint
- Click on a paint swatch and experiment to your heart's content.
- Print out your choices and head off to your nearest paint store.
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I've used something like this before, i think it was behr's site. The colors didn't look the same as they did on the computer. A a few reds I looked at ended up looking very orange at the store. But I did get an idea of what color I would like.
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For some reason I can't email images from the site.
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I've tried a few of these sites and never thought they lived up to expectations, mainly because I wish at least one of these sites would offer the choice to upload photos of your own rooms and let you try the approximate colours on a space that actually resembles the one you're going to paint. If InStyle can isolate your face and let you slap celebrity hairdos on your photos, surely someone can figure out how to approximate where the walls are in a photo of your odd shaped den.
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