Wether you have recently started to finish your basement or you have owned your finished basement for some time, you will want to be looking atall your basement paint options.  The main problem that people have with basements is the lack of daylight.  This is because basements are built underground and often don’t have windows of any kind.  Because of this, in order to be able to use your basement, whter it be for reading or playing billiards, you’ll want to have a good source of light.  Light is so important so that you can see properly, if you don’t have enough light you could end up bumping into things or developing eye strain.   You may well remember from school that light is absorbed into the color black whilst is bounces off white.  This fact is very important when selecting a paint color for your basement.  As mentioned before, basements can be very dark places so making the most of any light you do have is very important.  By painting your basement walls and ceiling in a dark color, whether it be black, blue or red, will absorb any light you are getting via a window or from artificial lighting.

Everyone one knows how depressing being in a basement with no natural light and poor artificial lighting is like.  You need to make the most of what you have so don’t make things more difficult for yourself by painting your basement walls and ceiling a very dark color.  It will only make the light situation much worse.  You will end up having to spend a small fortune buying lots of lighting and paying for replacement blubs and also the electricity bill.  If you are only using your basement for storage, then by all means paint it whatever color you wish, but if you find yourself looking through boxes and having a hard time of it, it’s only going to be made worse by the lack of light.  You’d be amazed at just how much darks walls can absorb light.  You would fully appreciate this fact unless you happen to have experienced it.

Although you can continue researching this topic on one of the many other websites, home décor magazines and diy books, you will find that the above advice is very sound.  You can paint your basement whatever colour you wish but if you find that the room isn’t as bright and welcoming as you would like then you should really consider repainting your basement with white or cream.  A warm off-white is normally used for walls whilst a cool white is used for the ceilings.

If you don’t like plain white then you should investigate other ways you can get colour into your basement.  This can either be done with accessories such as vases and rug.  Alternatively you could choose a shade of white which has a little bit of color in is such as yellow or green.  Darker colors such as blue, red or orange can still be as bad as black and if you want a room that is bright and airy, just use white or a slight tint.

Simply applying a few coats of light colored paint to your basement will really freshen the place up and give it a new lease of life.  Remember that paint charts are often very misleading.  So many people will buy a pain thiking that it will be perfect only to find that it’s a good few shades darker than they expected.  In these situations you can easily buy some white paint very cheaply and mix it in.  Taking notes of what percentages of paint you used will help in future if you need to mix up some more.