When I chose wall colours for our house years ago, I had so many of those trial size paint pots slapped all over the walls for weeks at a time.

Did it work? Yes, mostly, but it took a really long time.

I have some wonderful friends who have a real knack for combining colours easily.

Is this an innate skill? Probably, but I think (hope) it can be learned and there are now lots of web tools to help.

I was looking at feature colour paint for a wall in a boring room. I found a site at Taubman’s where I could upload a photo that contained the colours I liked and it would tell me names of the colours.

This was a great way to choose colours as I knew that I liked this combination. I could also save these colours to a project, which I did.

However my colours were not right in that room so I have opted for colourful art work instead. That site saved hours of trial and errors.

I then played with walls of an internal courtyard that friends wanted to paint. This site worked a treat. I uploaded the picture of the courtyard, and then chose the colours I thought they might want to try.

Then it was a matter of selecting the walls that would be the same colour, and those of another.

Then the fun part was to paint. How easy was that?

In the past, styleboarding a room was what I did.

I started with a picture that had the colours I liked and then added pictures of items I wanted included. My styleboarding tool is now Pinterest. It is so easy to grab pictures from the web and add them together in one place so a selection can be made. 

If you go to Pinterest and search for lounge room styleboard, a nice example will come up. Then create your own site. It’s easy!