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[quote=Anonymous]For painting, we considered getting the services of an interior designer, but, I picked the colors myself in our previous home and have lived a lot of places, which helps develop the eye. In the end, I ended up choosing every last color.

I did have an assist from the painter himself--who saved me from choosing a white that would have been too yellow for trim.  He basically expressed exactly what this blog says:  https://www.kylieminteriors.ca/the-3-whites-and-off-whites-i-would-never-paint-my-trim-or-cabinets/

Both the painter and the trim work carpenters were engaged by the builder.  We didn't try to comparison shop here--reliability was key and its hard to know that without working with someone.  Cost for both exterior and interior painting totaled $25,900.  About 2,500 of this was paint. The rest was labor.

Also, at this point, things happen pretty quickly.  Although I had an ideas folder, I hadn't settled on all our paint colors.  I wanted to see how the house was coming together before finalizing.  I probably made 3-4 trips to the paint store for samples, and painted swatches on the wall so we could see how they looked at various times of day.

We settled on a base color which we used throughout the house, and that made it easier to choose colors for individual rooms that worked with the base color.

It took about 5 days to make final selections on paint, so by the time our kitchen cabinets were installed, painters were really to go.[/quote]

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