I can’t tell you how many times I’ve walked into a house and the homeowner says, “I picked this color at the store, and it looked completely different when we got it on the wall.” Happens all the time. It’s not the paint. It’s the light. After 25 years of painting houses, I’ve learned that lighting is half the battle when it comes to picking colors. You can choose the perfect shade, but if you don’t account for how light hits your walls, you’re likely to be disappointed.

Let me explain what’s actually going on…

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I’ve been painting houses on the North Shore for over 25 years now. And if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that basements are tricky. Not the painting itself, that part’s straightforward. It’s picking the right color that trips people up. That gray you loved at the paint store? It might look completely different once it’s on your basement walls. Basements don’t have much natural light, sometimes none at all, so colors behave differently down there than they do in the rest of your house.

Before you buy five gallons of something you saw on YouTube, let me walk you through what we’ve seen work well over the years.

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