Where can one get the colour cards for your products?
All our colour cards are available at our sales points with the HGMIX mixing system.
The HGMIX mixing system enables the preparation of the selected colour shade based on a large number of colour cards, such as: Terra, Monicolor 720, Eurotrend, RAL, NCS and several others.
The colour cards can also be obtained from different professionals we work with (painters, facade builders). For individual products, some shades can also be seen on our websites.
We are soon planning to paint our newly-built apartment. As we would like to have coloured walls in some of the rooms, I would like to know where we could get colour cards of a bigger size than those available at the stores. It is difficult to get an idea of how everything will look like, as the colour cards you can get at the store are very small and you cannot transfer them to your apartment. Do you have any advice on this matter? What do you think about coloured ceilings?
Firstly, let us give you some tips to make your colour shade selection easier.
As far as colour samples are concerned, they are only available in the colour card sizes. The size of the sample is sometimes too small for us to be able to imagine how the final result on the wall will look like. That is why painters, architects and regular customers sometimes buy two liters of paint, with which they first paint a test wall in the room.
Regarding choosing the intensity of the colour shade: if you wish to have a strong, yet not brash shade, choose intensity F, G and H from the scale, if using the Helios Monicolor 720 colour card. In the second and third row, the shades are light, however, they look intense enough when actually painted on the wall. Lighter shades can then be combined with very intense shades in order to brighten up the room.
Coloured ceilings are a matter of taste, but do not go overboard with intense shades as they can make the ceiling optically lower and make the ambiance “heavy”, and vice-versa. In practice, the G113 shade (cappuccino) can be very nicely used as a base shade instead of using white (walls and ceilings). Even though this shade does not look special on the colour card, it makes a very elegant effect and does not clash with any of the colours of wooden objects or other elements in the house. Furthermore, you can combine it with any other shade in order to make a subtle transition to more intensive shades. The transition from white to more intensive shades can generate a contrast that is too strong and irritating.
Some more lighter shades which look nice on walls, and some strong ones to brighten up the room are: G058, G095, G079 in combination with G058, G021, G015; J082 in combination with J021; H084 in combination with z J122, K138, N125, S003, K015, L043.
For additional information you can call our technical-support service.
What to use to paint hallways in our new house? We would like to use a brown colour shade.
As you did not specify the desired intensity of the brown shade, we recommend two products.
If the house is new, we assume is has thermal insulation and that you do not have any problems with thermal bridges. In this case, we recommend using SPEKTRA LATEX MATT. All more intense and darker brown shades are sensitive to the touch of a finger as they leave white spots on the surface. As the paint has a smooth film, it is sufficient to wipe the surface with a moist cloth only.
For light brown shades, you could also use the interior SPEKTRA PREMIUM washable paint.
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