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Whole-house colour planning

Know your colours work before you buy the paint.

Build a palette for the whole house, see each room in morning, midday and evening light. Match real paints from Farrow & Ball, Dulux, Little Greene and more. See costs and exactly how much paint to buy.

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The PaintPilot Colours screen on a phone: a colour wheel for choosing a base colour, with its hex code and description below.

Three steps

How it works

  1. Pick a base colour

    The wheel suggests colours that go with it.

  2. Build your house palette

    One list of colours for the whole house, with advice on what works together.

  3. Plan each room

    Walls, ceiling, accents, door and floor, with calculated paint quantities.

From colour to real paint

Build a house palette, then match each colour to real paints from 25 brands, closest first.

The PaintPilot house palette: six colour tiles numbered one to six. Four carry a Paint badge with a real paint name: Pointing (Farrow & Ball), Gentle Moon and Crumpled Linen 1 (Dulux) and Bancha (Farrow & Ball). Two carry a Wheel badge and a hex code, for colours not yet matched to a paint.
The Paint matches dialog for a green from the colour wheel, with region set to UK and brand chips for Farrow & Ball, Dulux and Little Greene. Matching paints are listed closest first, each with a large swatch pair showing the target beside the paint and a closeness label: Garden LG 86 and Jungle Fever 2 are Very close, Suffield Green is Close.

Real paints from 25 brands, closest first.

Real paints from 25 brands, closest first.

Paints

Match any colour to the nearest real paints, keep your favourites and see the cost. The 25 brands are:

  • Asian Paints
  • Behr
  • Benjamin Moore
  • Berger Paints
  • C2 Paint
  • Caparol
  • Crown Paints
  • Dulux
  • Dulux Australia
  • Dunn-Edwards
  • Farrow & Ball
  • Glidden
  • Hempel Decorative
  • Jotun
  • Kansai Nerolac
  • Kelly-Moore Paints
  • Little Greene
  • Nippon Paint
  • Plascon
  • PPG Paints
  • Pratt & Lambert
  • Resene
  • Sherwin-Williams
  • Tikkurila
  • Valspar

See your room before you paint

Pick colours for the walls, door and floor, then turn the window to face any direction and change the time of day to see how the light shifts them.

A room preview with sage green walls, deeper green woodwork, a terracotta door and a mid-tone wood floor. A window on the left wall lets in warm morning sun, with soft shadows in the corners and under the skirting.
East-facing room, morning light. Change the window direction and time of day to see how your colours shift.

What you get

Features

  • Colour schemes that work

    Complementary, triadic and more, built from your base colour.

  • Real paint matches

    50,762 colours from 25 brands, matched to your colours. Your region's brands are chosen first.

  • See it in different light

    By window direction and time of day.

  • How much paint to buy

    With the calculation shown, so you can check it.

  • Room and house advice

    Warm and cool clashes, feature walls and contrast, flagged for you.

  • Works offline

    Install it on your phone and use it anywhere.

Good to know

Screens are approximate

Screen colours are approximate. Always try a tester pot.

Prices change

Prices are typical and change by retailer and date.

Your plans stay with you

They stay on your device. Export a backup in Settings.

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