When it comes to painting your home, there are an overwhelming number of colors to choose from. It doesn’t matter if it’s interior or exterior. Trying to visualize different color schemes on your home can be really difficult. Wouldn’t it be great if you could paint your house virtually? If you could just take a photo of your room or home’s exterior, and change those colors to different ones to see if you like them before actually painting? Well…GOOD NEWS!! You can paint your house virtually with some great online tools available for free!
Typically, we all tend to get a bit stressed out when it comes to selecting a paint color. We may go to the store and bring home hundreds of paint chips to look at. Or, we may paint a wall with a sample or two of paint. But for some of us, this process is still very hard to visualize the entire room or house exterior painted a certain color.
With all the advances in technology today, one would think there should be a way to paint your house virtually. A way to view your home in different colors, before painting. Guess what? There is! There are actually quite a few free apps and web tools available to help those of us who have a hard time selecting colors using the traditional system.
Sherwin Williams is one paint supplier that has an app called “ColorSnap”. You can either load one of their many photos, or upload a photo of your own. Once loaded, you can select any color you want to “paint” on the picture. This will give you a very good idea of what the color may look like in your room or on the exterior of your home.
Another great app is offered by Behr, and it’s tool is called ColorSmart. With Behr ColorSmart, you can select a number of colors and save them to “My Colors”. Just select the “Visualizer” button. Then you can paint your house virtually and visualize them in a specific setting. For example, you can see what one of your saved colors looks like in a bathroom or a bedroom. You simply click on the color, and then click on the wall in the photo you want to virtually “paint”.
The PPG Paint website has a very helpful color visualizer tool that allows you to paint your walls or exterior digitally. In order to access this tool and paint your house virtually, go to the PPG paints webpage. From the “Paint Colors” pull down menu, select “Paint Tools”. You then select “Color Visualizer”. Once in the “Color Visualizer”, you can choose their pre-loaded photos, or upload a picture of your own home or room. The next step is to save the colors you like. PPG offers a variety of easy ways to select your favorite colors. After selecting the colors you’d like to see, choose “Paint Your Room”, and away you go!
Most of these free online paint visualizer tools work the same. You simply select or upload your photo, choose the colors you’d like to see, and then click on the areas in the photos to paint your house virtually. There are many of these tools available online.
Using one of these color visualizers is a great way to take the stress out of selecting from the thousands of paint colors availble. Being able to paint you house virtually and actually see your home in different colors before having your professional painting company do the work is invaluable.
