Colour Advice

Colour Selection - Your home, your colours

There are three easy steps to ensuring you have selected the right colours for you and your home.

Step 1: Inspiration

We have designed two inspirational booklets, one for interior and one for exterior colour schemes, to help you choose the perfect colour scheme for your home.  The pictures help you see what works together.  They are specifically designed to suit any style of house.

Step 2: Selection

Once you have chosen the colour schemes you think will work best, use the Dulux Colours of New Zealand palette cards to check the exact tone and shade of the colour.  With 900 colours to choose from we're sure you will find just the right colours for your scheme.  The fandeck is another useful tool to help you choose.  It features a selection of 150 colours from the range, each with its own full blade, so you can easily mix and match the colours.  There are suggestions for colour schemes on the back of the palette cards and fandeck swatches as well.

Step 3: Confirmation

We recommend you confirm your final colour choices with Dulux Colours of New Zealand sample pots.  Light can really affect your colours so it's important to try your colours in the space they are going to be painted.  If you paint each colour on a large sheet of white paper or card, you can move it around and see how the light will affect the colour depending on where it goes and what time of the day it is.  Once you have decided, you are ready to start turning your dream colour scheme into a reality.

Colour Variation

Apparent colour variations between the paint chips  on colour cards and paint on the wall are usually caused by the reflection of another light source. For example, a nearby garden can affect a pale yellow or cream. The colour can also be affected by a reflection coming from floor coverings or curtains. Use Dulux Sample Pots to check the paint in place before you purchase the full quantity.

Matching Colour

We keep the formula used to create many of the colours from our previous colour ranges. Colours matching our Powder Coating colours (used to coat aluminium windows), matches to many ColorSteel® colours, and corresponding colours for many of the colours of other paint manufacturers ranges, are also available. Our total database of colour formulae has over 50,000 colours. Your paint retailer can access these formulas through our formula books or by contacting Dulux Customer Service.

If we cannot find your colour in our database, you can visit a paint retailer who may be able to create a special formula to match your required colour from a sample - whether it is a paint chip, or a fabric sample.

Colour Accuracy

After all the trouble you went to of deciding exactly the Dulux colour you want, why risk not getting it by mixing your Dulux colour in another brand of paint? Only Dulux paint is formulated to deliver genuine Dulux colour, both interior and exterior. So insist that your Dulux colour is mixed with Dulux paint. If it's not Dulux paint, it's not Dulux colour.

And remember to use Dulux Sample Pots to check that you have the the colour you want.