How To Choose Color for A McMansion

6 bedrooms, 5.5 baths, over $1,165,000 dollar home with almost 7,000 sq. feet - that's a lot of house!

Would you be able to choose color for this home?

Do you need color for a large home?

This home is actually in Providence Downs, in Waxhaw which is about 6 miles from my home. I've seen these McMansions up close and personal and they are incredible! 

Look at the detail in these homes. They have gorgeous wood flooring, huge windows, coffered ceilings, custom bookshelves and beautiful stone and granite surfaces.

Anyone would be very lucky to own one of these homes however, when it comes time to choose color for it what will you do? Choose one or two semi boring neutral colors for it? Will you choose a color for each room? Will you choose a beige, after all, how hard can choosing beige be? Hope you like band-aids and milk shakes because that is what you home will look like if you choose the wrong beige.

Here's a few thing to consider if you are going to choose color for you own McMansion. Let's look at these pictures and see what needs to considered.

FLOORING

Wood? Tile? Carpet? What color is your flooring? What color is the grout in the flooring? Does the home have the same flooring throughout the house? Do some of your floors have pink undertones mixed in with yellow undertones? These are all considerations.

LIGHTING FIXTURES

Do they have up lighting? Down lighting? Sconces? Accent lighting? What type of bulb do they have? What color are the bulbs? What color are the shades on the lighting fixtures? Do you have natural light? Do you have very little light?

OPEN FLOOR PLAN

Can you see up to 5 different rooms from standing on one place? Do the rooms flow into each other? Do you  know where to start and stop a color in a room?

STONE AND GRANITE

Stone and granite can contain many colors. Will you choose a color to match or to coordinate with your stone? Does the stone have cool or warm colors in it? 

APPLIANCES

What color are your appliances? Black? Stainless? White? Will you be getting new ones that will be different colors?

WOOD STAINS

What color is your kitchen cabinets? Do they match or coordinate with your flooring? With your furniture?

ARCHITECTURAL  FEATURES

Arches, columns, stairways, fireplaces, bookshelves, coffered ceilings, and accent walls. These are all areas where you can call out color. Will you know what color will look best featured here - or even if it should?

THEME ROOMS

Man caves, bonus rooms, playrooms and offices all require special color considerations. Will you know how dark to take a man cave or how to balance the “energetic colors” for the playroom?

THE SPA BATHROOM

HUGELY important here. Do you know which Sherwin Williams colors are considered the best coastal colors for a spa bathroom? Too blue and it'll look a like a baby's nursery too green and it'll be pukey. 

THE FOYER

It's the first and the last area you'll see in your home. Did you choose an ugly wrong color for this area? Does it look too pinkey? Dirty? Yellow? Bright? This is the area where you get to make the first impression, if you screw up get confused here, it will domino throughout the rest of your home.

Can you answer yes to any of these questions? To most of them? Did I just scare you? I really didn't mean to but I've seen this happen time and time again. People purchase these really expensive homes then skimp on hiring a Color Specialist. 

It's really hard work to choose color for this type of home. These large homes with open floor plans are actually my speciality but every now and then I get a McMansion that makes me scratch my head for the right color choices. It's a thinking process that I pretty much have down pat and really enjoy doing.

So if you are in South Charlotte, Waxhaw or even Providence Downs and would like help choosing color for your home, please contact me to set up a color consultation. Please hire a Color Specialist to do this project for you. I'm just a few miles away :-)