5 ORIGINAL PAINT TIPS FROM ELISE BOERS AND WOUTER PEELEN
When it comes to colour, Elise Boers trusts her fiancé Wouter Peelen blindly. He developed an extra sense of colour somewhere along the way and knows exactly what a house needs to look good.
LAB wallpaint Softened Green no. 271 (walls and ceiling) and Little Greene Harley Green no. 312 (kitchen).
1. THE PLACE YOU LIKE TO BE MOST
'We love the colours of sunrise and sunset', says Elise. 'The beige Masala Chai no. 31 on the walls in the living room and bedroom feel like that moment.' Wouter also looks for his inspiration for colour in the places he likes to go. 'The depth of the colours from Morocco is almost impossible to find in any other country. It is the combination of sunlight with the desert and the colours in tiles and rugs. You see a lot of turquoise, green and blue. They are special colours.'
LAB wallpaint Softened Green no. 271 (kitchen walls and ceiling), Little Greene Harley Green no. 312 (kitchen) and LAB wallpaint Masala Chai no. 31 (dining room walls and ceiling).
2. TAKE ALL YOUR BELIEFS AND BELONGINGS WITH YOU
Elise and Wouter have a clear strategy for choosing colour: 'Take everything you like or want in your home with you when you choose colours. We dragged wallpaper, the floor and even a stair runner with us. By putting everything next to each other, you can ultimately see whether the palette is right.'
LAB wall paint Masala Chai no. 31 (ceiling) and wallpaper Arte Granville 91608 (behind sofa).
3. BE PATIENT
Wouter: 'Sometimes something doesn't turn out the way I had in mind, that was the case with our hallway. It was too pink and tame, too tone-on-tone. It wasn't right. I like tough and bold. Every time I walked through the hallway, something was missing. I knew we were almost there and then I suddenly see it in front of me. The stairs, door and cupboard had to be a different colour, and the burgundy Lipstick Lover no. 908 gave it exactly the right body.' Elise is much more rigorous: 'I immediately think that we have to repaint everything, but luckily I trust Wouter completely in this. He keeps looking until it's right.'
LAB wall paint Pink Peach no. 24 (staircase wall), LAB interior paint By Juliet no. 152 (door frame and skirting board) and Lipstick Lover no. 908 (woodwork stairs, stair gate and door) and wallpaper Farrow & Ball Tented Stripe 1352 and wallpaper Arte Textura 27001A (ceiling).
4. THE SAME COLOR OVER AND OVER
'Don't choose a different colour in every room, that can become a hodgepodge', Wouter explains. 'We used the light Softened Green no. 271 in the boys' room upstairs, from the window frames in the living room. Try to let colours come back, that way the house remains connected everywhere. Even if you don't notice it immediately when you walk around.'
Photo left: LAB wall paint Masala Chai no. 31 and LAB interior paint Softened Green no. 271 (skirting board). Photo right: LAB wall paint Silence no. 107, LAB interior paint Softened Green no. 271 (window sills and frames) and Stunning View no. 32 (skirting boards). Photo below: LAB wall paint Masala Chai no. 31 (ceiling), LAB interior paint Softened Green no. 271 (door frame and skirting board), Little Greene Harley Green no. 312 (door) and wallpaper Arte Granville 91608 (wall).
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5. TON-SUR-TON-SUR-TON-SUR-TON
'Combine a lot of the same thing, and you create a whole. You might think it's too busy, but by using many different shades of green or blue, you actually create depth and layers. And don't be afraid, but always go for a bit more than you dare. More blue, more pink. More is more .'
LAB wall paint Pink Peach no. 24 (wall and ceiling), LAB interior paint Sugar Kiss no. 733 (door) and By Juliet no. 152 (skirting boards and door frame).
WANT TO TRY OUT COLORS?
Then use our LAB sample pots . With the sample pots you can test your LAB COLOUR directly on the wall or a sheet of paper and discover how the colour works out in your home. Sample pots are only available in LAB wallpaint . This is a matte type of paint that is intended to assess a color. Are you hesitating between multiple colors? Then also order our colourcar d , gr o color samples or the complete color fan .
Photography: Lotte van Uittert