3 Benefits to Hiring a Color Consultant to Refresh Your Home

If you’re looking to refresh your home with a good coat of paint and want to know if there really is a benefit to hiring a professional in the space to help you, then this article will clear it up.

I’m coming to you as an avid DIYer who has painted—and repainted—many spaces.

1. You get to actually enjoy the process (instead of pulling your hair out)

   There’s a very specific cycle each of us who have been brave enough to seek the perfect color for our walls has faced, and it looks like this.

   First, you wake up very excited and motivated one Saturday morning, and even you didn’t see it coming. You realized the key to getting the living room to feel right is by taking the day to paint so you cancel any potential plans for that day to head over to the paint store bright and early to really get a jump on it.

   You figured of course the painting part would be the hardest and most gruelling, but you’re aligned with it and have the energy today. You quickly realized that 2 trips to the paint store, and 3 samples smeared on your wall later, that this is not only turning out harder than you expected, but your motivation is dwindling real fast.

   So now you’ve got a half painted wall, and are ferociously scrolling Tiktok and Pinterest for exact colors that will be THE color.

   And so you head out again, only to realize that color looks even worse than the others. You’re tired. And there’s no way now that you’ll actually get this done in a day. You’re tempted to just choose the best one and paint anyways, knowing full-well that it’s not exactly what you want.

2. You don’t have to become a color expert in the process

   While I’m grateful for the fact that I’ve purchased over 120 paint samples in my career refreshing homes, if I were just someone who wanted to nail the right paint color, I wouldn’t really want to burn calories, time or money trying to understand color.

   I’d just like to focus on getting my home painted.

   So instead of trying to understand lighting, undertones (the big one), what LRV means, and why that Tiktok video made the color look so beautiful but heinous on your walls, you hire a color expert who specializes in why your paint color went way too pink or yellow, or way too dark, or chalk white.

3. You get to actually enjoy your home without feeling like something constantly feels off

   This pivots back to point #1 which is that there is no greater quandary than having spent the whole day paintintg, thinking you’d get that payoff of a newly refreshed home and be able to wake up tomorrow feeling completely different in your home, only to already be planning when you’ll have to redo this mess you made with $100 down the drain. It’s a total dopamine killer, and certain personality types (mine) struggle to let the new color sit on the walls, so your whole family will feel like they’re in a DIY project zone until the new color is put on the walls.

   But when you hire a professional (me), you get to just say what you actually want your home to feel like, how you want it to match your floors/countertops/furniture, and not have to do any trial-and-error that leaves no time to enjoy the process.