5 Key Colors for Fall/Winter 2016/17

November 2016 Color Trends

Fall/Winter 2016 sees a refocus on inspirational sources; we are rethinking and reassessing the world around us. As perspectives change, we gain more confidence with color usage and in turn engage with the effect color has on our surroundings.

Taking inspiration from our 2016/2017 trends, we look to the sheer beauty of dramatic landscapes, admiring the powerful and equally fragile planet. Also looking beyond the land, we seek inspiration from the surrounding oceans and into the dark depths of water. Historical and classical references also provide stimulus along with our innate child-like desire to play and interact.

All of the above reference our trends and inspire new directions in color. Here we will share 5 key colors to work with for Fall/Winter 2016/2017.

QUIET PEACE #0592 is a deep-water hue from our trend ABYSS that references the deepest oceans and the seascapes that we are yet to explore. Despite breadth of scientific discoveries in other areas, our planet still provides a great deal of intrigue and inspiration for design. This rich and deep tone can be applied to a variety of environments for a grounding and serene overall affect. This calming, intense blue would work well in a work-space or study area to give clarity and comfort within the space. Build a palette using this tone by combining QUIET PEACE #0592 with others from ABYSS such as softer aqua tones or pale neutral grey's to create a balanced outcome.

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NORTH BEACH BLUE #0485 accompanies the QUIET PEACE #0592 tone from the ABYSS trend furthering the exploration of deep blues. This color references bleached textiles and our continuous pre-occupation with denim, not only in our wardrobes, but in our homes. The textile provides inspiration in the form of the stone washed color of NORTH BEACH BLUE #0485, which can act as an effective and innovative neutral for our walls. A touch of grey is mixed in to move away from sky blue colors, thus softening the tone and results in a more measured and sophisticated outcome for interiors. Pair with sandy beach hues for a gentle complimentary palette, or use tonal schemes of blues from ABYSS for a contemporary and cool look.

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DUSKY MOOD #1318, comes from the STRATA trend comes into focus and stays grounded in natural references. Charting the impact of the ever-changing landscapes that are redefined by natural forces often beyond our control. STRATA takes note of mans influences on nature and vice versa. Offering an updated version of grey and an alternative to an urban inspired concrete grey tone, here the color gains a dusky purple undertone for added interest. With a new intriguing warmth, DUSKY MOOD #1318 is still easy to use and apply by updating living areas with this inviting yet chic finish, especially when blended with warm taupe's and tinted whites.

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LOCKHART #0098, from our trend, RIPE, takes classic inspiration from historical still life and paintings and conveys a rich and warm atmosphere suitable for any interior. Indulge in this luxurious color and add softness to your space. This timeless color echoes traditional painting techniques that heavily influenced this trend. The color has strong connotations of interior textiles with its velvety finish. LOCKHART #0098 has an inviting warmth so would work well applied to bedroom walls creating a comforting yet sophisticated overall effect. Combine in an interior palette with accents of deep eggplant purple, teal, and pale mustard from RIPE for a rich contrast within your home.

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FROG GREEN #0779 is the stimulating color from our trend PLAY that responds to our inner child. Conveying a positive message, this lighthearted tone encourages interaction with color and with our surroundings, diverting attention away from complex technology and back to using color to stimulate our minds. FROG GREEN #0779 is modern and clean and offers a fresh, bright color for wall and painted furniture applications. This color would work well with children's play areas and bedrooms for an energetic and encouraging atmosphere. Combine this tone with other from PLAY or alongside a monotone color scheme as a highlight. FROG GREEN #0779 would add a fun accent to furniture frames or in painted graphic patterns on the wall.

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QUIET PEACE #0592, NORTH BEACH BLUE #0485, DUSKY MOOD #1318, LOCKHART #0098, and FROG GREEN #0779 are the five colors we see to be key for Fall/Winter 2016/2017. These tones are taken from our 2016/2017 trends ABYSS, STRATA, RIPE, and PLAY. The colors work across a variety of interior applications and can be used singularly or combined successfully as an all over palette for a space. These colors all offer something diverse and convey different moods and aesthetics that are on trend. Each color could add something innovative and exciting into your home whether it is used in isolation or with our suggested complimentary tones, it will be a success.

Be sure to check back monthly for new postings! For the next article, we will be talking about the HIDDEN LUXURY OF COLOR. This will continue our exploration into interior decorating ideas with a focus on bringing richness and luxury into the home by using keep color in inspirational palettes. 

This is the monthly color and design news update from Davis Paint. The article above aims to preview the forth-coming season and give insight and relevant information for using color to help inspire personal projects.

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Last Call for Pre-Holiday Painting

November 19, 2015 by Debbie Zimmer 0 Comments

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With the holidays quickly approaching, it’s wise to take a careful look at the condition of your home. There’s still time to enhance things, but the calendar says that you’d better act quickly.

Take a careful look at your most important rooms, starting with your entranceway or center hall, where your company will form their first impression of your home. Then proceed to the family room, dining room, and bathroom or powder room. Pay special attention to the kitchen, since guests always seems to congregate there.

If you find your interior wanting, you need to get busy – before things like card writing, gift buying, food preparation, and other imperatives appear on your to-do list.

Make a list of the rooms that require attention and what it is that needs painting — walls, woodwork, or both. Then prioritize your projects based upon the importance of the room, and the amount of time you expect your visitors to spend there.

Start by wiping down whatever you plan to paint. Then repair the surfaces as needed. Next comes the fun part: choosing new paint colors for your walls and woodwork.

When you’re under the gun with your painting, it’s wise to go with “safer” colors. Can’t-miss neutrals like off-white or pale pastels are great choices. In a happy coincidence, these colors are expected to be in vogue next year.

But if you’re determined to fully embrace the holiday spirit, then go ahead and paint your rooms in the colors of the season.

If Thanksgiving is your main event, then apply rich autumn shades like burnt umber or gold to the walls; paint the trim in either white or the lightest tint from the same color cards.

Focused more on Christmas? Then choose festive hues from the red and green color families. Burgundy, crimson, and forest green are seasonal favorites; they also are wonderful choices for dining rooms and other areas where food will be served. Sprinkle in a few silver or gold accents, and your rooms will be picture-perfect for the year-end holidays.

When you purchase your paint, keep in mind that glossier coatings are more stain-resistant and more washable. Satin finish is a good choice for most walls, but you may want to use paint with a higher level of sheen in the kitchen and other high-traffic areas. As for the trim, it’s always wise to use gloss or semi-gloss paint. You’ll be happy you did when the festivities end and the cleanup begins.

At holiday time or anytime, always choose the very best quality coating you can afford. Top quality 100% acrylic latex paints wear much better than ordinary coatings, they’re more fade resistant, and are typically much easier to apply.

The best ‘paint and primer’ products made with 100% acrylic offer another advantage: They typically require one fewer coat to get great coverage, which can save a lot of time – the one thing there is far too little of around the holidays!

A General Guide for Effective Touch-up Work

Performing quality touch-up work can be difficult and in some cases impossible. The reason why effective touch-up work is so difficult to achieve is due to a discrepancy in porosity of the substrate and the existing coating. Any freshly damaged areas will absorb the touch-up coat at a different rate than the surrounding areas that had been previously painted; resulting in variances in color and gloss (also known as “Flashing”). Touch-up work showing flashing. Although touch-up work may not be possible in every situation, the list below provides a general set of conditions that typically must exist to effectively touch-up a surface. 5 Conditions for Effective Touch-up Work 1) The existing coating should have an MPI Gloss Level of either GL - 1 (a traditional flat finish) or GL - 2 (a traditional matte finish): Coatings with higher gloss levels will be too difficult to touch-up. Variances in light reflectance are significantly more noticeable with higher gloss paints. 2) The existing coating should be light: In general, deeper/darker colors are more difficult to touch-up effectively. Advertisement 3) The surface must not be exposed to critical lighting conditions: Even if the existing coating is an MPI GL - 1, touch-up work can appear visible under critical lighting conditions. 4) The same batch of paint must be used for touch-up: Different batches of paint will have slightly different qualities even though they are the same product from the same manufacturer. Even the slightest variance in color and sheen is noticeable when it appears side-by-side in the middle of a wall. In general, it is a good idea to keep a little bit of paint left over for touch-ups. 5) The same type of application tool must be used: Different application tools will provide different finishing textures, and will ultimately make any attempts at touch-up work visible. If the initial coating was applied by a roller, the touch-up work must be performed with a roller with the same nap size. Using a 10-mil nap roller to touch-up a surface that was applied with a 15-mil nap roller will create a significant variance in texture. Brush marks from touch-up work plainly visible on a rolled wall. If the surface in-question meets all 5 conditions listed above, there is a good chance that effective touch-up work will be possible. Keep in mind that while the list above does not guarantee whether or not a surface can be touched up successfully, it does provide a general set of conditions that are typically required for effective touch-up work. Whether a surface can be touched up at all depends on a range of factors including the finish’s gloss, color, method of initial application, and its location (especially where critical lighting is involved).   Sign Up to Get this Newsletter Forward Share Share Tweet +1 Advertisement

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According to recent surveys, the bathroom has surpassed the kitchen as the most popular room to remodel. But, unless you need (or want) to upgrade your tile and plumbing, you can easily beautify your bathroom simply by painting it.

Fresh paint can enhance any interior space, but it can work wonders in the bathroom. By applying a light-colored paint scheme, you can visually expand the room, making your bathroom seem larger. You can do just the opposite with darker colors: add intimacy.

When selecting paint colors for the bathroom, you should always take into account their“psychological” impact.

Yellows, oranges, and reds, as well as some browns and tans, are regarded as “warm” colors, meaning they tend to arouse and stimulate the senses. You might appreciate that in the morning, but not at bedtime.

On the other hand, greens, blues, and other “cool” colors are calming. By painting in one or more of these hues, you can convert your bathroom into a relaxing retreat.

Be aware the color of paint you choose may also affect how warm or cool you actually feel in your bathroom. Colors like yellow or orange, which are associated with sunshine, may help you feel cozier, while icy blue or green walls or woodwork may make the room seem colder.

When selecting your paint, keep in mind that the bathroom presents a challenging environment for any coating, what with the moisture, humidity, and constant use of the room. As a result, you should use only the highest quality paint there.

A great option when painting the bathroom is to use one of the new “paint and primer” products, which serve as both types of coating in the same can. Like primer, they do a great job of hiding the existing paint color; and, like quality paint, they form a tough, stain-resistant finish that is washable, especially in higher gloss levels.

What’s also nice about paint and primer products is that they make it much easier and faster to paint the room. Rather than having to apply a coat of primer followed by two or more coats of paint, you typically need to apply just two coats of a paint and primer product, greatly streamlining the project.

To get the best performance, you should be sure to choose a paint and primer product that contains 100% acrylic. It will offer the best blend of primer and paint properties, providing good hiding of the underneath color and creating a very tough, durable and stain-resistant painted surface.

So, if you want to give your bathroom an attractive new appearance this year, maybe you can call off the remodeling contractor, and simply apply a colorful new paint treatment. It’s a quick and easy way to beautify one of the most important rooms in your home.

The truth about painting drywall

Constructed out of a gypsum-based core with a paper coating on all sides, drywall is the most common interior wall surfacing material used in modern construction. Despite its prevalence in the construction industry, achieving a uniform and even finish when painting new drywall can prove challenging. While the painter may appear responsible for an uneven or patchy finish, these defects can often be attributed to how the drywall was prepared.

Why does this happen?

One of the reasons an even and uniform finish is so difficult to achieve when painting new drywall is due to the variance in texture and porosity between the paper coating and joint filling compounds. The paper coating is less porous and therefore will absorb paint at a slower rate than the filler compound, resulting in an uneven finish. Using a high quality latex primer sealer will help to offset this difference in porosity by sealing the more porous surface joint filling compound and the less porous paper surface. This provides a continuously sealed surface with relatively uniform porosity and is the first step required to accomplish an even and smooth finish on new drywall.

Although minimizing the variance in porosity is the first step in ensuring an even finish when painting drywall, it often is not the last step. This is because defects in drywall can be very difficult to detect until the prime-coat is applied. This occurs because greater light reflectance tends to make surface defects more noticeable and thus the uncoated drywall may have small surface flaws that are practically invisible until some coating is applied. Read More…

Even with a thorough review of the unpainted drywall surface, it is quite common for “new” surface defects to become visible after the prime-coat has been applied.

The next step from here is to call the drywall contractor back onto the jobsite to repair and fill any deficiencies in the substrate. Once repaired, the painting contractor will spot-prime these areas before scuff-sanding the prime-coat in order to prepare the surface for the application of the intermediate coat. Ideally, this would be the final step before scuff-sanding the intermediate coat and applying the final finish coat; however, this is not always the case.

Often, when painting work on new drywall commences, the lighting and heating systems of the finished project have yet to be installed. As the project moves forward, these systems are set up, both of which can impact the appearance of the drywall.

Improved lighting makes surface defects in the drywall much easier to see (as well as the application of a higher sheen intermediate coat), and changing the temperature of the exposure environment causes movement in the walls and seams, creating additional defects. These newly identified surface irregularities will be need to be repaired by the drywall contractor. The painting contractor is only liable for surface defects found AFTER the applying the finish coat, however the scenario above highlights how difficult achieving a quality, uniform finish when painting new drywall is. Perhaps the worst part of the scenario described above relates to what happens when drywall repairs are made after the intermediate coat.

To achieve a smooth uniform appearance in a typical 3-coat system, each coat must be applied over a level and even surface. In the scenario mentioned above, one wall could consist of the following combinations of coatings and filler:

1. Drywall, Sealer, Intermediate Coat
2. Drywall, Filler, Sealer, Intermediate Coat
3. Drywall, Sealer, Filler, Sealer, Intermediate Coat
4. Drywall, Filler, Sealer, Intermediate Coat, Filler, Sealer, Intermediate Coat

If coating combination A were to appear directly beside coating combination D, the variance in texture would not create a visible profile to the naked eye; however, it would definitely give the wall a blotchy, patchy appearance as if the wall was painted with the 2 different batches of the same product. The variance in surface texture created by applying uneven layers of filler, sealer and intermediate coat across an entire wall is what causes the inconsistent appearance of the finish. 

At this point, the painter would apply the final coat to the drywall; however, the final appearance will still be uneven and patchy (assuming the painter had done a perfect job). The only remedial action the painter can take is to apply additional coats to level off the surface; which, given the variance in surface texture, could take significantly more coats. 

Although these defects and flaws will look like application errors, the reality is that these defects have nothing to do with the quality of paint or application methods used. Paint alone cannot fill these defects and level the surface. Because the dried film thickness (DFT) of a single coat of conventional latex is roughly 1/3 the thickness of a 5-dollar bill (1-2 mils), it is impossible for these defects to be masked or filled by a single coat. 

How to Avoid this Problem 

One solution that could have been used is for the specifier to require an ASTM Level 5 Drywall Finish, which requires the entire surface of the wall to be coated with a thin skim-coat of drywall compound to create a smooth and level surface. It is important to note that although a Level 5 finish will produce consistently better results than a Level 4 finish, it does not guarantee a defect free surface in critical lighting conditions. 

Seeing as a Level 5 finish is not commonly specified, all parties involved in the project should be aware that all drywall repairs should be made before the intermediate coat is applied. Only small minor repairs like dents or scratches from moving furniture/equipment should be made after the intermediate coat is applied. Additionally, the interior temperature of the building should be at 60°F or higher before any painting commences to avoid movement of the drywall that can create new surface flaws. To assist in identifying any surface imperfections in the drywall before application of the intermediate coat, ensure that good lighting has been installed. 

Furthermore, if the painting contractor believes the raw drywall is not ready for paint, he should inform the general contractor, point out exactly where the problems lie, and ask that the drywall contractor make the necessary repairs before painting work begins. Repair work is much harder to execute effectively after paint is applied.

Recap

1. New drywall can be difficult to paint as there is a difference in texture and porosity between the paper surface and the joint filling compound used. Additionally, repairs made after painting work has commenced will create an uneven surface that results in an uneven and blotchy appearance after being painted. Although these defects and flaws will look like application errors, the reality is that these defects have nothing to do with the quality of paint or application methods used


2. Use a high quality latex primer sealer when painting new drywall to provide a continuously sealed surface with relatively uniform porosity.


3. Although using a high quality latex primer sealer is an important first step, many defects in the drywall are practically invisible until the prime-coat has been applied. This means the drywall contractor will have to return to the jobsite and make repairs.


4. Ensure proper lighting is in place and that the interior temperature is above 60°F before commencing painting work. Proper lighting makes defects in the drywall more noticeable, and the change in temperature cause movement in the walls and seams of the drywall, which can create new surface flaws. It is far more efficient to have these repairs made before painting commences.


5. Never make drywall repairs after the intermediate coat has been applied. The variance in surface texture created by applying uneven layers of filler, sealer and intermediate coat across an entire wall is what causes the inconsistent appearance of the finish.


6. Specifying a Level 5 Drywall Finish (application of a thin skim-coat of compound across the entire surface of the drywall) can produce consistently better results than a Level 4 Finish when painting new drywall; however, a Level 5 Finish does not guarantee a flawlessly painted surface in critical lighting conditions.