Remember when you had a favourite colour? That jumper that you wore until it fell apart, or that shade you insisted all of your school stationery just had to be?
Thanks to Valspar, you can now recreate exactly that colour for your walls at home, whether you’re after the perfect pale yellow for the kitchen or the ideal shade of blue for the bathroom. This leading US paint brand is bringing the ultimate in paint tinting technology to the UK, breaking colour conventions and allowing you to mix paint in any shade the eye can see. That’s about 2.2 million shades. So the big question is, where to start?
Finding inspiration
Colour is all around us all the time, but so many of us choose to ignore it, wearing a monochrome palette and forever retreating back to black. Challenge yourself to wear something bolder today – that red top you never dig out or the coat you thought was a shade too bright, perhaps. On your walk to work, open your eyes and watch spring burgeoning around you, its bright flowers poking their heads through the winter gloom. You could even head to an art gallery, picking up postcard copies of paintings that catch your eye, or just grab an armful of magazines at the local newsagent for inspiration.
The next time you travel, even if it’s just in your own neighbourhood or city, take a camera. Snap pictures of colours you see that you like – that tiling on the tube or in that tapas bar might be the perfect shade for your bedroom. Perhaps that bright blue sky is the blue you’ve been after for the dining room? Collect colours as you go about your life and you’ll soon have plenty of shades to choose from.
Getting a match
Once you know what colour you want to match, Valspar will do the rest. Colour can be scanned from clothing, a photograph, a magazine, a home accessory you’d like to coordinate with; anything that is a solid object, with a surface area of at least 0.5cm in diameter, and not too shiny.
Simply take this into your local B&Q store and Valspar will use it to mix your paint for free. They will even keep your colour on file until you want to use it. You can take home any of the 2.2m colours in a tester pot, so there’s no guesswork involved. You can check it’s exactly the shade you wanted for the living room or that bathroom cabinet.
Selecting the perfect paint
You can use Valspar paint on just about any surface in your home. Valspar paints come in a variety of high quality finishes, and are tailor-made for the surface you want to use them for, from an interior wall to the garden shed.
Choose the Valspar Premium Walls and Ceilings for a paint, primer and undercoat all in one, or select Valspar Premium Interior Wood and Metal for skirting boards, window frames and banisters. You can even have your colour mixed as a Valspar Masonry Paint, so the outside of your home can get in on the action too, whether it’s brick, concrete or cladding. There’s a Valspar Multi Surface Spray Paint too, which can be used on virtually any surface, and is extremely easy to use with no brushes needed and a super smooth finish.
The right colour could make all the difference to your next decorating project or home renovation, so why let someone else choose it for you?
