Colors for painting walls: how to choose?

Kohler is a special composition of saturated color. It is used to create the desired shade for various paints: oil, alkyd, water-dispersed and others. You can also tint plaster mixes and other finishing materials. Painting the walls with pigment is necessary to create a complex shade. The main advantages of this method of decoration - an extensive range of colors and affordability for any budget. Let's find out how to correctly select the color of the tint for painting walls and mix it correctly with the basic composition.

Kohler is available in the form of paste, powders and solutions. It is better to pick it up manually. At the same time, the palette of shades can be limited only by one's own imagination.

Color Benefits

The following advantages of this type of finish can be noted:

1. Easy to use.
2. Low cost.
3. Huge selection of color palette.
4. Environmental friendliness and safety of materials.
5. Practicality and usability.

In terms of quality characteristics, modern paints are in no way inferior to other facing materials.

How to choose the right colors

To find a suitable palette, it is worth considering the following nuances:

1. You can choose a color using a special catalog that is in every store selling paint and varnish products.
2. Depending on the lighting, the color of the coating after mixing with the tint may vary. For example, the shade will look different at home and in the store.
3. Do not immediately knead a lot of paint. First, a small amount is made and tried on the wall. This reveals the exact ratio of tint and paintwork material for the selected shade.
4. If the room is bright, choose a synthetic pigment. With artificial lighting, a color scheme containing organic substances will look better.

The selected palette for the walls depends on the size of the room and the degree of illumination. The color scheme of the surface should be in harmony with the background of the flooring and furniture. If the floor is made in brownish shades, then the color for the walls can be beige. With green and blue flooring, the walls are decorated in yellowish or golden tones.

The range of wall coverings can be bright and saturated. Juicy colors are known to cheer up. Among them are ocher, juicy green, golden or brown shades (next photo). It is worth remembering that the blue tones in the evening light become faded.

A room painted in the colors of a light palette will visually become more spacious.

There are three varieties of colors:

• cold shades: green, purple and blue;
• warm: yellow, orange and red;
• neutral: black and white.

Choosing a specific color, it should be borne in mind that the adhesive solutions brighten after drying, and the water-dispersion and oil - darken.

Mixing technique

Before proceeding to tinting, it is worth determining how much color and paint are required. With manual cooking, it is difficult for the second time to get the same color as in the first case. To avoid such moments, a calculation is made and the exact proportions are determined.

In order not to spoil all the material, first test color is kneaded. 100 ml of paint and a few drops of pigment are added to a small container. It is better to dose with a special syringe: this will help to find out the exact amount. Add color should be until the desired shade.

Further, the resulting probe is rolled back on the wall, since the color often changes on the working surface. You need to wait until the paint dries and see the shade under different lighting conditions. If the palette suits, the work continues.

To make a large volume, a bucket is taken, the mixture is stirred with a construction mixer. The paint is diluted with water and colors are added to it. To paint the entire wall surface, the number of calculated pigments is reduced by 20%. That is, if 10 drops of a solution were required per 100 ml, then 80 per 1000 ml would be needed. The tinting composition is added in small fractions to the bulk.

It is important to remember that the color is prepared in one container, since different shades can be obtained in different ones.

Application technology

Painting the walls is a simple process. First of all, you need to prepare the work surface. Before applying paint, puttying is carried out to eliminate cracks and irregularities.

Then the material is applied to the work surface using roller, spray gun or brushes.

When applying a tinted mixture, remember the simple rules:

• Direct sunlight should not be allowed on a dry surface.
• Staining should begin with the most inconspicuous area.
• Be sure to make a trial version.
• The mixture is applied so that the vertical stripes overlap each other.
• If painting is done on top of the wallpaper, the stripes of staining and wallpaper joints should not match.

Usually the composition is applied in two layers, the first should be allowed to dry well.

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Painting walls with a tinted mixture is not at all difficult. If you approach the process responsibly, you can beautifully design a room in any color scheme.