Resources
Guides for designing and painting your barn quilt.
A growing library of practical guides — picking paint, choosing boards, transferring patterns to a grid, and more. Start with our color guide below.
- Color & Paint
From hex code to real paint: the barn quilt color guide
Every color in the designer is a hex code meant for a screen. Here's how those colors translate to physical paint, why brands differ, and the closest match from Behr, Sherwin-Williams, and Valspar for every palette color.
Read guide - Layout & Sizing
Board sizes, grids, and painted borders: a sizing cheat sheet
How board size and pattern grid combine to set the size of every square — and when adding a painted border makes your grid land on friendly 1/4-inch measurements. Includes cheat-sheet tables for 1', 2', 3', and 4' boards.
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More guides coming soon — board materials, exterior primers, transferring a pattern to your board, and pattern history.