To begin with you will have to choose your exterior colors. The developer, not the builder, monitors the choices available to you. Each neighbourhood or new community is developed with a theme in which only certain colors will appear. In other words there are architectural controls imposed by the developer, which limits the range of exterior colors available. Once you choose your colors with your builder, they are forwarded to the developer for approval. This is not to say that you still won’t have a wide range of shades to choose from. Dependant upon the style of the home, there may be very little paint involved in the exterior design. Now-a-days there are natural wood doors, or factory coated doors and window capping, so the color choices there don’t involve paint. However, there are still garage doors, decorative battens and chimney caps to thinks of, and quite often the same paint company will be used.

However, depending on the builder, different companies may paint the interior and the exterior. This ranges from builder to builder and community to community. Some builders use the same painters all the time, while others put out the jobs for bid. That is something that you can ask your builder when you go to choose your colors.

Choosing your interior colors however, is a completely different matter.  Margaret Rye with Trico Homes’ design department, says that homeowners have an almost limitless variety of colors to choose from. “Feature walls are an upgrade,” says Rye. “However our general color selections are quite vast.” She adds. A feature wall is usually a single wall in a room, painted with a very vivid or bright color. This makes the wall a focal point of that particular room. When it comes to paint, Trico homes uses General Paint products because they satisfy a whole range of needs. Almost any color can be matched and hundreds of shades are available. A feature wall color is usually outside the range of regular colors and has to be specially brought in or mixed. Trico’s painter says that for those brilliant feature walls, he used a General Paint product called HP 2000. This new product offers brighter colors and covers very well.

New-home builders have designers to help you with your color and design choices. Usually if you have something specific in mind, they can help make it a reality, or if you have no ideas at all, they can assist you with this as well. Of course that is why designers and interior decorators put so much thought and effort into the showhomes. Many people see a feature that they really like and it starts the wheels turning. Trico’s Bridlecrest showhomes include bright bold feature walls that are fresh and eye-catching and leave a definite impression. Many potential buyers may never have even considered some of these color choices until they see how well they compliment the home.

So it may be one of the most difficult choices to make when planning your home, but the choice of color can also be one of the more fun decisions that you ever have to make. And even better, in a new home, you don’t have to do the painting!