“The process is based off of color first and brand last, so you know you’ll be getting the exact shade that’s right for you,” assures Samara Tuchband, senior director of Online Merchandising at The Home Depot. This means you get the most real life visual of how the paint will look. It holds the integrity of the room’s dimension as you try different paint colors in your space, painting around objects and acknowledging shadows and lighting conditions in the room.
Project Color brings these realistic visuals to customers through exclusive patent technology for how paint renders in the app. The Home Depot sought to develop better technology than what was currently available and bring a tool to painters that would allow them to see an accurate depiction of a paint color on their wall, deck, siding-wherever- before buying it. Apps where you take a picture of a room and choose a color already existed, but users complain they look unrealistic and are often only associated with one brand of paint, resulting in limited options. The number one thing customers want to see in a digital application for paint is how the color looks in their room, their house or their project. So, how can you be sure you’re choosing the right color? The Home Depot set out to make the whole process easier with our new Project Color app and online Color Center, connecting our in-store, online and mobile paint tools and options. Options for paint are nearly limitless, but once on your wall, it can look quite different than expected due to lighting, shadows or other décor in the room. Upwards of 75% of customers decide to forgo a paint project because they cannot decide on a color.
The problem many homeowners face, however, is figuring out which hue is right. Paint can transform a room or be the touch that subtly pulls together a cohesive style. The total cost of the transformation was about $800,000.The key to the perfectly designed space often rests in the color that coats the walls. They added the pool and landscaping that summer and fall. Berman said, until the project was finally complete in early 2018. “Then we moved in, like most people do, and were living in finishing-up construction toward the end,” Mr. It took a little more than a year for their contractor, Doughty Builders, to renovate most of the house. By converting yet another bedroom off the primary suite into a home office, they reduced the total bedroom count to six from eight, which still leaves them plenty of space for guests (even while they rent out the detached guesthouse). On the second floor, they combined two bedrooms to make a large primary suite with a bathroom that has a glass-box shower at the center and a black-and-white floral mural painted by Mr. In the back of the house, which was a later addition, they made bigger architectural changes, demolishing most of the interior walls and blowing out the rear wall to create an airy kitchen and living room terminating in a wall of glass sliders that look out to a new pool and patio. In a games room immediately off the foyer, they bleached the wood floors and added wallpaper resembling wood paneling and a woven-bamboo suspension lamp above a walnut Ping-Pong table with a leather net. A ribbon of yellow paint now leads up the front steps, rises up along the front door and wraps back over the porch ceiling. In the front part of the house, they left most of the architecture in tact, but changed its personality with new finishes, fixtures and colors. “For us, it was an opportunity to celebrate a lot of the classic details, but give them a face-lift,” Mr. To renovate it, they planned to preserve as many of the original details as possible, while opening up the house to create a relaxed, convivial atmosphere filled with playful, unexpected finishes. Berman, whose firm is known for designing clean-lined modernist spaces. The couple liked the historical details, but the interior was a Victorian time capsule - with a floor plan broken up by small, dark rooms - and didn’t feel right for their family. Their new old house had been restored by the previous owners, and much of the original woodwork was intact. The price of the new house, after a bidding war, was $600,000. So in 2016, when they saw a listing for a 4,000-square-foot, three-story shingled house from 1891, with a detached 1,200-square-foot guesthouse in back, they decided to buy it, eventually selling their first house. And as they began entertaining more, the 1,800-square-foot house they had lovingly renovated began to feel a little small. A few years later they added a Victorian bulldog, Watson, to the mix. In 2007, after most of the work was complete, they welcomed the arrival of their son, Owen, now 14.