Not to mention, using cheap paint colors can potentially cause an unwanted domino effect for other aspects of your home. “If a home looks cheap, there’s a feeling that things are going to break anytime, that nothing has any value, and people don’t care as much about their stuff,” says Christine Kohut, owner of the New Hampshire-based Christine Kohut Interiors. As Kohut says, all colors can look good when the natural lighting of a space and the relationship to other things in the room are considered, but some colors are easier to work with than others.