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Color, in Your Own Light

Choosing paint color for the light you have

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Part 01

How Light Changes a Paint Color

A color can look right on the chip and wrong on your wall. Why? The light. Which way the room faces, winter daylight, the bulbs, and where to put samples.

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11 min in all
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    Part 2: Choosing a White

    Most houses have more white than any other color, and whites are hard to tell apart on a chip. Seven compared by LRV and undertone, and how we test them.

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    Part 3: One Palette Through the House

    From the front door you can see three or four rooms at once. How to plan one palette for the rooms you see together, and where one color should stop.

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