We love our fall favorites: warm sweaters, cozy campfires and football-watching food and drink. It’s the season of chicken and noodles, fuzzy socks, and the annual debate whether pumpkin spice is still trendy. If you can’t wait to feel all the feels but picked the wrong paint color months ago, then your home might feel more like an icebox than a cozy retreat. The good news? You don’t have to repaint the whole house to fix it. Let’s talk about sneaky paint mistakes that can chill a room, and how to warm things up.

Imagine hearing the following sentence in the deep baritone of dramatic movie announcer guy: “In a world where colorless homes dominate America’s residential landscape, a hero emerges from the world of interior design who chooses colors with confidence, banishing forever the scourge of the bland beige box.” You can be that hero. You can bring color into your home like a kick-butt chromo warrior! Half of the battle is learning the three color-choosing mistakes you must avoid and how to solve them.

Read on, chosen one. Read on.