Design and colour advice
Design and colour advice, we design with you, across the Randstad
A drawing, a 3D view and a colour plan that works with your light, your floor and your furniture, made by the people who then do the work. Free call, one fixed price.
5.07 Google reviewsPimp My House thinks along about design and colour. We draw up your room, design the wall layout, panelling and wainscoting, show it in a 3D visualisation and make a colour plan for your whole home or for one room. Test patches on the wall let you see it for real too. The difference with a stand-alone colour consultant: we do the work afterwards, so we only advise what really comes out clean. The call is free. The advice has one fixed price.
Price after a free visit
The price depends on the surface, the square metres and exactly what you want. That is why we come round first. Then you get one fixed price, materials included.
What do you get with design and colour advice?
A conversation at your home about what you like, how you live and what is already there. Then a colour plan: per room the colours for walls, ceiling, woodwork and floor, with the colour codes so it can always be reordered. We put up test patches in your own light, because colour on a fan deck is not the same as colour on your wall.
Want more than colour? Then we design with you: an accent wall, wall panelling with trim, a colour block that divides the room, or a complete plan for your new build. We turn it into a 3D visualisation, so you see beforehand how your room will look instead of guessing.
How we do it
Meeting at your home
We look at the light, the floor, the furniture and what you like. You show examples, we ask questions.
Colour plan and test patches
We work out a plan with colour codes per room and per element. On the doubtful spots we put up test patches of half a metre, so you see it in your own light, by day and in the evening.
Design and execution
If you want panelling, an accent wall or a layout in colour blocks, we draw it out. Once you agree, we carry it out: spraying, painting, lacquering.
What determines the price?
The number of rooms and whether you want just a colour plan or design and visualisation too. A colour plan for one room is a small amount; a complete plan for a new-build home with visualisation is more work.
Do we paint at least 4 days for you within 3 months? Then the colour advice comes off. You see it as its own line in your quote.
How it works
You call us
Or we call you back. You tell us briefly what you want.
We come round
Free. We measure up, check the surfaces and think along.
One fixed price
Materials included. What we agree is what you pay.
The details
- RAL and NCS
- The two colour systems we work with. RAL is the building standard, NCS describes colour by nuance. Every colour in the plan gets a code.
- Light
- North light is cool and makes white bluish; south light is warm. The same colour looks different per facade; that is why we look on site.
- Test patch
- Half a metre of real paint on the wall, in two places. The only honest way to judge a colour.
- Sheen
- Matt for walls and ceilings, satin or gloss for woodwork. Sheen changes how light a colour looks.
- Colour block and accent wall
- One wall or part of a wall in a different colour to steer a room: deeper, higher, calmer.
- Wall panelling with trim
- Classic panels we set out to the size of your wall and lacquer cleanly. One of our own jobs, see the photos.
- Warm and cool white
- RAL 9010 is warm white, RAL 9016 bright and cool. The difference is small on the fan deck and big on the wall.
Good to know
We only advise what we can make clean ourselves. A deep colour on a wall with many irregularities shows every bump; then we say so honestly and propose plastering or a matt finish first. Colour advice without us doing the work is possible too; you get the plan with all the codes.
Frequently asked about design and colour advice
Is colour advice free?
No. The call and the painting quote are free. The colour plan with test patches has a fixed price. Do we paint at least 4 days for you within 3 months? Then it comes off.
Can I get colour advice without you doing the work?
Yes. You get the colour plan with all colour codes, so you or someone else can get to work with it.
Do you help with a new-build home too?
Especially. An empty house is the best moment for a plan for walls, ceilings, woodwork and floor in one go. See total finishing too.
Do you make a 3D visualisation?
We make a simple visualisation on a photo of your own room, so you see the colours and blocks beforehand. Not a full 3D drawing, but enough to decide.
How long does a colour plan take?
You have the plan within 2 working days after the visit. We put up the test patches during the visit.
Also useful: interior painting with colour, wall panelling with trim or total finishing. We work across the Randstad.