We've gotta do something about that bedroom.
My name is Kelsie, I am from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
and I am not afraid of color.
And that's not always a good thing.
I grew up in a house where everything was
pretty beige and neutral.
And when I bought my first house
I just needed a change and I needed color.
Where things got really out of control
was our master bedroom.
I was in a craft store and I found
a wooden letter with my initial K for Kelsie.
And it had these interesting colors
and decided to build my room around it.
It is now known as the sherbet room.
I need help!
Hi! Come on in.
This is my husband Tony.
Hi Tony. Hi, nice to meet you.
John, nice to meet you too.
I hear you guys have a sherbet room.
It is sherbet, it's our bedroom.
The bedroom. The bedroom.
Let me see this room.
Ah okay. Wow. The sherbet room it is.
Okay I know what I'm gonna do so if you two can
skedaddle for a little bit, I'm going to get to work
and it won't be sherbet anymore.
So the first step is to get the guys
from Mr. Contractor in here to empty the room out
and prep these walls.
She is bold with color, I'm trying to be bold
with how we use color.
We've got a family of blues and greens.
They've got a lot of gray in them.
And now I've just got to see how they look
on the walls in this room.
And not just one wall,
because light changes throughout the day
and the way it reflects off of different walls is different.
So I'm going to try it on two different walls
and close to the trim so I get as much information
to work with as possible.
When you use flat paint, you really have to wait
for it to dry to get the true tone of the color
because it usually dries quite a bit darker.
I think I want to use all three colors.
(upbeat dance music)
We got a bunch of great furniture from Macy's.
We're assembling it now, the colors are perfect.
I think Kelsie's gonna love it.
I found these beautiful photographs
of Kelsie and Tony and I literally just photocopied them.
It's the simplest way of using store-bought frames
and bringing the family into the decor.
All right the sherbet is gone, this room looks fantastic,
it's time to bring Kelsie and Tony in.
And open your eyes.
(Kelsie gasping) Holy (beep)!
Oh my god, there's cameras!
This doesn't even look like my room!
I have a chair!
Oh my god!
Oh that's me!
It's amazing, this room is amazing.
It's better than anything I could even
have thought it could become.
And I love it, I love it.
I feel like paint color choice is a daunting
experience for a lot of homeowners,
and it doesn't need to be as long as you start with
these four questions about how the room functions
and what kind of colors you gotta bring into it.
Number one, what's the feeling that
you want to create in the space?
Everyone can have many different feelings.
For Kelsie's room I knew we wanted it to be
warm, and serene, and relaxed.
This is essentially the first step
because you're gonna buy paint and put it on the walls
and test things out, but it's important to know
what kind of feelings that you're going for.
What's the vibe that you want?
Exactly.
So the second question is what other colors
are already in the room?
Now this is talking about what furniture pieces
and accessory pieces are already in the room.
Not the wall colors.
The light is going to reflect off of pieces of furniture
that are similarly colored in different ways
so it sets up the color that you have to pick
in terms of what the undertones are.
Many neutrals have warm or cool undertones
and if you pick the wrong undertone
everything in the room is going to look off.
Grays can be warm or cool and if I were
to take you over to the color wheel right here.
Because I knew I was going to accessorize
in the orange family and we were going to use
a lot of grays to complement those colors,
I'm gonna pick from the blues and grays for the walls.
You go into this roll.
Exactly, so you push on the opposite side
of the color wheel.
Now purpose, right?
Yes, this is very different from feeling.
Feeling versus function.
How are you gonna use the room?
Some people do have home offices
with a desk in a corner of a bedroom.
And you can definitely deal with that.
You bring in a brighter color scheme,
more energetic colors maybe,
and of course a different lighting scheme.
And that bring me of course to lighting.
To the lighting situation.
Maybe the most important question of all.
What is the lighting situation in your room?
To pick colors for a warm room
you want to pick some cooler tones
just to bring it all down.
To calm it down, right.
Exactly. If you do warm colors
in a direct sunlight room, all those colors
are going to read too bright, maybe even
a little too yellow.
We painted this a flat beige
and I want to show you how different it is
from daylight to nighttime,
which is when the sun has set
and now you're turning on incandescent lights
and the color changes.
So if we could see the color change right here
from day to night.
Whoa!
It's a big difference.
Look how much more yellow it looks.
So you want to choose a neutral
with a much more cooler undertone.
And to pick an undertone, again you go to the color wheel
and you go to the most saturated color of the color wheel
to see where the undertones of that neutral
that you picked live.