How a Colour Designer can help with a project.

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Dulux

03 March 2025

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3 min read

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Colour is one of the most transformational aspects in house design. It can highlight, enhance, create a mood and turn a house into a home. It can be hard to know where to start though, and that’s where our Dulux Colour Designers come in.

What is the vision?

Whether it’s refreshing paintwork or completely redecorating, the first step is to define a vision. Before an appointment, it’s worth creating a mood board to showcase what you’re looking to do with your space. You could get your inspiration from magazines, blogs, or social media.

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Choosing a colour scheme

Here’s where colour comes in. Our designers are masters of all things colour and colour schemes. They’ll use your mood board and inspo pictures to pick out Dulux colours you’ll love.

Together you can fine-tune your colour choices with their expertise. They’ll help you pick what will work best in certain spaces, from bathrooms to open-plan living, through to exteriors.


Manage existing finishes

Most of the time a project will typically involve working with existing design elements, surfaces and paintwork.

In this case, our Colour Designers will advise you on how to scheme with these existing features to bring the whole space together as one.

From touch-ups to gloss and texture variations, their experience will take the guesswork out of how to resourcefully refresh existing paintwork on all surfaces.

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Colours that follow the latest Colour Trends or are unique to you

Furniture colourings, textures, and natural surfaces can all influence the feel of your space, and influence the undertones of the paint colours required. Sometimes you need a little help from a professional designer to help you to curate your colour palette. They can guide you towards popular colour trends or a colour combination that’s unique to you and your home.

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Book a colour designer

With personalised consultations available both in-home and online, you'll gain the colour expertise to complete your project with confidence – allowing you to sit back and enjoy the beautiful result.

In-home Colour Consultation - from $125/hour

You'll get: a comprehensive in-home consultation with an experienced Dulux Designer, full Dulux colour and product specification, containing everything you need to start painting, the opportunity to review real, physical colour in the space and light under consideration, up to 10 large colour swatches and 2 sample pots, up to $25 off your Dulux paint purchase*.


Recommended for:

  • Full house repaints, renovations and new builds
  • Body corporate and commercial jobs (note these complex jobs attract a higher rate – please discuss with your designer)
  • When you intend to use a professional painter and need to provide a full colour and product specification.

Online Colour Consultation - from $89/hour

You'll get: advice from a Dulux Designer wherever you are in the colour decision process, a post-consultation summary of your personal colour and product recommendations and up to 5 Large Colour Swatches and 2 Sample Pots.


Recommended for:

  • Smaller projects, investment properties
  • When a Dulux Designer cannot physically join you onsite.
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Dulux Photo Visualisation

Need help to visualise how your colour scheme will look when its painted?

When working with one of our Dulux Colour Designers, you can add on a Dulux Photo Visualisation for $75.

Our technicians use Adobe Photoshop to digitally paint your project with colours suggested by your Dulux Colour Designer.

Add your Dulux Photo Visualisation to your Dulux Colour Consultation using the code 'Visualisation' in the promocode area.

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