The combination of paints for walls: how to combine

Gusevsky Andrey Anatolyevich

The combination of colors in painting a house

The combination of colors when painting the walls of a residential building allows you to make the facades of buildings spectacular and attractive. You can highlight individual elements with colors, such as the roof, wall, facade or openings for windows and doors.

At the same time, it is important that the perception of the building is complete, and not separate parts, regardless of the distance at which the inspection will take place. How to combine colors with your own hands when decorating walls, the article will tell.

Basic rules for combining paints on the walls

The color of the facade of the house and the walls of the building can be selected using the color wheel.

In this case, the basic rules are:

• With porous structure parts of the facade of the house, it should be noted that coloring these parts in dark tones will make them visually somewhat lighter and at the same time smaller.
• Smooth surfaces become even larger after staining them in light shades. In this case, the brightness becomes up to three times stronger.

Tip: If you wish, the structure is as clear as possible, the corners and side elements of the facade should be painted with very dark colors.

• If a house with complex architectural forms and lines, you need to use bright colors. The more shades applied, the better. And with a fairly simple architectural solution, using the most ordinary lines, it is better to paint the building in inconspicuous, not very bright colors. After that, the structure will look lighter and more original.
• The combination of shades of bright lines always looks quite interesting.located along the contours of windows, entrance doors, existing columns. An example is shown in the photo.

Highlighting the windows and doors of the house with bright lines

• Bright accents are good to make on stucco moldings, if any. In this case, the use of direct acid colors is optional. The main thing is to make the maximum contrast of these details against the background of the entire primary color.

These are the general rules for painting a building.

What colors to paint the house

When painting the facade of the house, there are four color directions:

• Cap. With it begins the selection of flowers. It is taken into account that this part of the house is most susceptible to pollution from the environment, which means that the color for it must be selected accordingly.

Tip: You should not use black color for the cap, dust will be visible quite well on it. Preference should be given to a dark brown or dark gray shade.

• Main walls. According to the degree of lightness, the primary colors of the roof and its details should be opposite to the base, and the walls are painted in shades of middle between the base and the roof.
• Edging and tab details. To attract views, the protrusions need to be painted in lighter and very bright colors. And for edging it is better to choose the colors located in the spectral circle closest to the color of the walls of the building.
• Different pipes and other technical communications it is better to paint with one, not very noticeable color, which can be easily cleaned and it will not be very dirty.

Tip: When painting pipes and wiring, appropriate markings should be applied.

How paints are selected

The color scheme of the circle consists of 12 colors:

• Three - the main ones:

1. red;
2. blue;
3. yellow.

• Three - compound or shades obtained by mixing basic paints:

1. green
2. purple;
3. orange.

• Six - tertiary, paints obtained after mixing the basic and composite:

1. yellow-orange;
2. red-violet and others.

All other colors are mixed.

To understand how to paint houses, facades, color combinations, how to choose the right paint color, you need to keep in mind that the colors differ in:

• Exposure to temperature.
• Degree of saturation.

This way colors stand out:

• Warm - red.
• Cold - blue or blue.

In addition to this paint can be:

• Light and dark.
• Bright and pale.

The colors located in the circle of Newton against each other are complementary.

When mixing them, you can get neutral shades:

• Beige.
• Gray.

Tip: Each of the colors exerts its influence on the subconscious of a person. When choosing paint, a combination of shades on the facade of the building, this should be taken into account. For example: excites and excites - red, causes activity - yellow, tires - purple, relaxes - green.

Choosing a combination of wallpaper and paint on the walls, you should not use contrasting or disharmonious, bright colors that can irritate the human psyche. They are usually used by people with a healthy nervous system, temperamental personalities, young active people.

Mixed and pale colors with a calming effect, requiring careful contemplation, are used by a person with a delicate taste, an exquisite perception of the world and with a high cultural level of development. Ambiguous and unusual emotions are caused by a combination of black and violet colors with yellow.

The correct coloring of the walls, the combination of colors when decorating the house, should harmoniously fit into the overall design of the site. In this case, you should not use only one tone, the choice for painting the facade of several paints and the use of metal tiles for the home will become a more interesting and unusual solution.

The instruction for using quite successful color schemes offers such a combination of them:

• Achromatic, consisting of tones:

1. white
2. black;
3. gray in different shades.

• Monochromatic, includes paints with one shade.
• Nuance, has three colors that are closely located on the circle.

Newton's Circle

• Disharmony, includes a combination of colors located next to the optional.
• Contrast, may consist of two additional colors on a circle or three colors forming a symmetrical figure or several other options.

How to choose colors for the house, taking into account the climate of the area and architectural style

Tip: When choosing paints to decorate the facade of your home, you should take into account the climatic conditions in which it is located.

It must be borne in mind that the pigments that are included in the composition of the paints must be resistant to sunlight, the effects of various rainfall, in order to preserve the rich color in the decoration of the building.

Choosing a color for painting a house

Pigments are of two types:

• Organic These are bright red, yellow and violet colored substances that burn out quickly enough in the sun. Therefore, it is better not to use them for houses that are many days a year under scorching sunlight.
• Inorganic. These include dark colors, less fading in the sun, but having a serious drawback: they are strongly attracted by the sun's rays, which contribute to a facade overheating in a summer day, and to a sharp cooling at night. Optimal colors should reflect approximately half the sun's rays.

The choice of paint and tools for painting the building

The table shows the main characteristics of organic and inorganic pigments:

When choosing a combination of paint colors, color for home decoration, you must consider the style of its design.

For instance:

• In the classical style, it is better not to paint the house in bright colors. Here, pastel tones or various coffee shades look more harmonious.
• Alpine style offers great opportunities to realize creative ideas in home decoration:

1. metal tiles are best chosen in the colors of natural wood;
2. walls will be well combined painted in white or beige colors. The facade can additionally be decorated with wooden elements, which will look very impressive.

• The design of a house in ethnic style, which can be:

1. Japanese
2. Chinese
3. American
4. even African.

The color of the metal tile in this case depends on the traditions of the country, the style of which is chosen for home decoration. In this case, paints for walls, openings for doors and windows, and decor elements are accordingly selected.

• Gothic houses with a sharp dark-colored roof with dark turrets used as decorative elements are stably in demand. The facade of such a building can be painted to contrast with light tones.
• If, according to the designer's intention, the house should be part of the landscape, paints for decoration are selected taking into account the colors of the landscape surrounding it. The houses that use brown and green shades are the brightest.

Tip: It must be borne in mind: the more complex the structure of the structure, the simpler and lighter the colors should be applied to finish it.

• Very bright colors will not emphasize the excesses of the building too well, and calm shades will make the right accents. When equipping a roof with a chimney, its color should be combined with the color of the roof or facade.

It will help you choose the right colors for painting the home video in this article.

How to choose the right combination of colors of the facade of the house and surrounding objects

When painting a house, it is necessary to take into account, in addition to your taste, the general color gamut of the objects that surround it and are nearby:

The choice of paints for tiles and building facades

• In a historical place, it is necessary to choose the color combinations characteristic of this part of the building.
• Country houses are best painted in pastel colors. When surrounded by a garden and trees, it should be decorated with paint of light colors.
• The building, located in an ordinary residential quarter or in a completely open area, stands out with bright colors.

Correct proportions, emphasize the most interesting elements and create a general style of the house, hide its shortcomings, increase the volume - such tasks can be solved effectively by changing only the color of the facade. Moreover, the price of all work will not be too high.