Help with color selection for interiors

do it as proposed by hampshire. Everything else is simply guesswork!

Why guesswork? At the specialty store, colors were mixed by scanning a foreign card. The employee said he could, for example, also use an old piece of painted wallpaper as a reference to mix a previously used color again. Of course, this does not work on the level of natural pigments, which look slightly different depending on the light incidence. But the color tone mixed for us was very precise...

exactly for this reason guesswork! Every mobile phone and every screen displays colors differently, so you can only be conditionally sure that you like the color in real life from a Pinterest picture with the corresponding RAL or another code. That is why I would always recommend trying out the desired color first on 1-2m² of wall in the house. Colors also always appear different on a surface. Unfortunately, I had to realize this now with our facade paint...

We looked at the clay plaster as a sample and with color cards from the manufacturer (a whole suitcase) in the house. Selected texture, added components (in our case straw), and color. Fits.

Seeing colors on site makes sense, just like getting inspired online. The fact is that the light incidence can make the same colors look extremely different. I was almost dropped my jaw when our tiler hung a tile lying on the floor on the wall during the sample selection. You would never have thought it was the same tile. At the hardware store with the beaver around the corner from us, there is a whole wall with small color cards from the paint manufacturer with the orange-red circle as a logo. With these small cards, you can already very well recognize the different light incidences. Maybe there is something like that in your nearest hardware store as well. Otherwise, my opinion is always to go to the specialty store and have something properly mixed.

Thank you for your tips. Tomorrow I will see the color fans from the painter. I hope he can lend them to me; I don't want to decide in a rush. Otherwise, I always tend to choose "a little lighter than I like on the card." I find that colors always appear much darker on a full surface. But I don't know if his color fans have what we want. I would like very light, pale tones. Most of the colors I have seen on color fans so far were all too dark or intense for me. Even the sand or gray tones.

I can - besides everything that has already been said - add:

1) Use color as an eye catcher, for example only on one wall

2) Tape off a frame, so the color does not go up to the ceiling and adjacent walls.

3) Colors always appear stronger on large surfaces than on the color card.

4) Furniture partially already there? Not every wall color harmonizes with every piece of furniture!