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Introducing: The Colour Picker Tool

Emmeline Westin

10 years ago

Many of us Houzzers are struggling to find the right paint colours for our homes. We spot a beautiful wall colour, and we just want THAT shade. Hopefully we've eliminated that dilemma for you now with the launch of our Colour Picker Tool.

Our new Colour Picker Tool will identify matching paint colours from any item seen in any image on Houzz! Whether it's the paint itself, the fabric of the sofa or the artwork on the wall, when you activate the colour picker tool hot spots will identify a matching Dulux Amazing Space colour and enable you to click straight through to order a sample.

How the Colour Picker Tool works

When you open any image on Houzz the Colour Picker Tool will appear along the right hand side.

Click on the 'Show Paint Colours' button and it will activate the Colour Picker Tool.

5 hot spots will appear on the photo you are looking at. These hot spots can all be dragged around the photo and whatever they land on, they will identify a matching paint colour for you.

Your colour palette will then appear along the right hand side where you can either:

Click on an individual colour to go through to Dulux Amazing Space to request a sample or purchase the paint
Save the paint palette to your ideabook as a reference during your home improvement project.

We hope that you enjoy using the tool and if you have any feedback please feel free to share your comments with us here!

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Louise Richardson-Vine

10 years ago

OK thanks @stefanmh, I will report this to the engineers. Are you able to send a screenshot of what you see when you view a photo on your iPad? E.g. if you go to this page: https://www.houzz.co.uk/photos/interior-design-photography-by-ekin-erinch-contemporary-living-room-london-phvw-vp~65694025 what do you see on the right hand side (this is where the tool should show up)?

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Comments (21)

minnie101
10 years ago
Hi Emmeline. It's a fantastic idea. I had a quick play around with it and I think some colour choices were more successful than others (I tried a quick search on dulux colours too to see if it was wholly accurate but couldn't find any images in the time I spent looking!). Regardless it's a great idea and some of the colours were so closely matched and the whole thing must have taken quite some time to implement. Do you think this will ever extend to a full shopping guide on images?!
Sonia
10 years ago
I've used the Dulux colour tester app. I tried it out to see how good the match is. My walls are Elderflower Tea, but on the Dulux App the colour didn't match at all with my walls painted in that same colour! I think good old match pots on pieces of paper or card is a much better way.
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stefanmh
10 years ago
The colour picker tool doesn't appear for me. What's happening?
Emmeline Westin
Original Author
10 years ago
Thanks for the feedback all! @Minnie, we do have the green tags on most photos, but you can't buy the products off Houzz (in the UK or Ireland) yet. Let's see what happens in the future!

@forzaitalia - With the Dulux app, do you mean the Colour Picker tool on Houzz or another app? You can buy tester pot to ensure you get the right shade.

@Stefanmh - Are you using Houzz online or our app? The tool only works on Houzz.co.uk for now!
sqezefrau
10 years ago
I can't see the colour picker tool either. I'm on the co.uk Website on my PC and don't see it.
stefanmh
10 years ago
Still not working for me and I'm on the Houzz.co.uk website. I'm using my iPad as I do for 90% of the time instead of my laptop so wondering if you can sort the problem out?
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Louise Richardson-Vine
10 years ago
Hi @sqezefrau can I ask what browser you are using on your PC? And @stefanmh if you could let us know what type of iPad, version of iOS you have and the browser you are using on your iPad, that will also help us to find out why you are not seeing the tool.
stefanmh
10 years ago
Hi

I'm using an iPad Mini 2 running IOS 9.3.5

Cheers
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Louise Richardson-Vine
10 years ago
Thank you @steanmh, are you using Safari to access Houzz?
stefanmh
10 years ago
Yes I am.
stefanmh
10 years ago
Sorry for the delay in replying.

I see a green square with "+ Save" in it
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OnePlan
10 years ago
Not seen in iPhone running version 9.3.5 see screenshot
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OnePlan
10 years ago
Or on iPad Pro running 9.3.5 too ( both on app )
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OnePlan
10 years ago
last modified: 10 years ago
This is via the web rather than app on iPad Pro again
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OnePlan
10 years ago
Sorry pic won't load ( my teenager must be up and draining the Internet !!! You city folk with proper Internet are sooooo lucky !!! We only get about 1.8 mb 'speed' here !!)
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Louise Richardson-Vine
9 years ago
Hi @OnePlan, the colour picker tool is currently not available on the app, so this is why you won't see it there. If you could send a screenshot of what you see on the website, that would be very helpful. This should be what you see when you view a photo on an iPad browser:

It could be that the website is actually taking you to the app without realising.
garycostello
9 years ago
Does not appear on houzz Ireland
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Louise Richardson-Vine
9 years ago
Hi @garycostello unfortunately the tool is only available for Houzz UK at the moment, so you won't be able to see it on Houzz.ie
sqezefrau
9 years ago
Sorry -- never got the question - I am user Google Chrome on an iMac- and it still doesn't work
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Louise Richardson-Vine
9 years ago
Hi @sqezefrau, are you located in the UK when accessing Houzz.co.uk? I think the tool is only available to those actually located in the UK when viewing the site.

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