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Outdoor Review with Color Fan Decks

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How to do a Professional Color Consultation

What happens here

The painter advises the client that colors will appear differently under indoor and outdoor lighting. He leads the client outside to view paint samples in natural light. They begin by flipping through a physical fan deck (Behr brand is visible), holding different shades against the house's exterior. During this process, they consider how landscaping might influence color perception. The client initially liked a green color from the fan deck but then realized she preferred a color similar to her house's existing shade after seeing it against the house. The painter also emphasizes that the front door can be a focal point for expressing bolder color choices, independent of the main house body color.

Tools and materials

  • Paint Fan Deck

What they say

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you're choosing colors inside they will look completely different inside than they do outside okay so right now we're in um not natural light um outside will be a natural light always make sure you look at them outside so [Music] okay [Music] after seeing the green now I'm thinking I really do like the same color as my house when you put it up there I was like oh maybe that's not going to work yeah yeah so um and I like to do that show you colors cuz um especially if you like if you really like the color your house what I don't want to do is change your mind okay and so cuz then what happens is is you liked your house before and now we're going to drastically change it to a new color and then um once it's painted it's painted right and you might just say you know what I'm I wish I wish I really had the color it was previously so if a lot of times people are just like I really don't like the color of my house that's when we know we want to change it and if you like it then we would um want to probably stay CL similar to what it is you know now but just freshen it up with just a little bit darker colors [Music] so it's interesting cuz most color schemes I do on houses are four to five colors and people are like where do you put four or five colors but you can see we just saw it we just saw we got a door body color stco um facia so 1 2 3 4 we've already got five colors right I had no idea I thought we were just going to do a couple right

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