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Online Paint Selection Tool
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Online Paint Selection Tool
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" Well it's nice to have a professional paint colorized join you. If you can't do that we've developed a tool a paint selection tool at bobvila.com. That anyone can use. First you can bring up the basic style of your house is -- a colonial or ranch house. Then you might want to start with the gallery of color. Try on different color schemes until you find when you like. Say you find a grouping you like to let you want to change one of the cars. You can go to the custom tab and dial another shade or a whole other color and add it until you get to look you want. We picked and chose from a couple of different groupings to come up with a nice historical scheme for our house. You can save your project and even email it to your contractor or your designer. Then what's really great is you can go to the paint estimator tool and figure out how much paint to buy and even where to buy. Of course colors will vary from computer monitor to monitor so you should always go to the store and CD actual paint chips with your own eyes before you box. But this'll give you the option of printing out the specifications page with lots of different options so that you can save a lot of time and head scratching when you're actually of the --"
