As you put together a schedule for painting your home’s exterior, don’t forget to include other wood structure in your yard. These will need maintenance, either painting or staining which is preferable for wood decks and other large surfaces like fencing. You might like doing these yourself or … we’re happy to take care of them for you to free up time for activities you find more fun.
Decks, Fencing & Other Outdoor Structures
Maybe your home’s exterior siding is vinyl or brick so you don’t think you have to do any exterior painting? You probably have some wood trim and that does need to be painted. It doesn’t have to be done all at once. One strategy is to rotate and paint one side each year, at least for the wood trim if you’re doing it yourself.
Weather can be really tough tough on paint, especially the side of your home that gets the most sun or wind. So think of painting your home’s exterior as restoring it to what it looked like years ago or change it up and choose an entirely new color.
Painting Your Home’s Exterior
A new coat of paint can make a huge difference for any room and homeowners today are getting much more creative about how they use paint to personalize their homes as this article, Color Trends: Where Do They Come From. Don’t forget to decide if you want to paint the ceiling … and do that first as it’s a lot more work to tackle this once the walls are done. You also have to decide if you’ll paint the baseboards and trim around doors and windows which generally you don’t need to do.
So in addition to painting the entire room one color, here are some other choices:
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Create an accent wall, often popular behind the headboard in bedrooms.
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Paint different colors on the top/bottom half of walls, with/without a chair railing.
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Add stripes (one or more) around the room at any level.
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Paint complimentary geometric shapes to create a background, like teepees, for a room’s theme.
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Paint a mural or use blackboard paint so you can keep changing what’s written on the wall.
Interior Painting
Most people focus on paint colors. But please never forget that paint on your home’s exterior plays a key role in protecting the wood, so it’s best to get on a schedule for keeping your home free of wood rot.
Painting is part of most remodeling projects so we’ve got the skills you need whether you’re painting a room, a 2-story hallway and stairs or your home’s exterior. Painting is fun because you get to pick new colors and don’t forget, you want to find the right finish to get the look you want.
