Planning to Paint Your House? Here's a Full List of What to Consider
Whether completing your new home, making repairs, or renovating, even an exercise as simple as painting should never be taken lightly. Paintwork plays a huge role in accentuating the right colour themes across your home, waterproofing walls and increasing the value of your home. Before you get your home painted, you should evaluate several important factors first:
What necessitated the re-paint in the first place?
First, you should always take notes on why you've had to repaint your house in the first place. Most paints can last well over several decades if applied well using quality products. If the paint on your house has worn too quickly, certain underlying problems could have caused the wear.
Common problems include peeling, flaking and cracking. These are often caused by painting on damp surfaces, not sanding old paint properly or not priming the walls first. Have your professional painter look into these problems first to avoid a repeat of the same.
What are the right colours schemes for your home?
Next, discuss with your painter the right colour schemes for your house, both inside and the outside. Your painter will provide you with samples to choose from. The most important consideration is to make sure the colours you choose have the right harmony. For example, brown is best paired with close colours such as charcoal or cream, instead of blue or red. Your painter will help you choose the right palettes to ensure the right colour coordination.
Note that for interior painting, you have the liberty to choose more colour options. However, with exterior house painting you have to ensure you match your colours with other factors such as the roof, the surrounding landscape and often other homes in the neighbourhood.
What type of paint are you going to use?
Not all paints are the same in terms of what they are made of and how they respond when applied to your house. You have the option of choosing between oil-based paints, water-based paints and environmentally-friendly 'green' paints. Oil-based paints have better water resistance, have a glossy finish but take longer to dry. On the other hand, water-based paints don't fare well with moisture, take less time to dry and are not as glossy.
Paint finishes for the final look
In addition to just painting your walls, your painter can also have your walls touched up with plain, classical or contemporary finishes depending on what your tastes are. These are decorative additions that will add a bit of character and art to your walls. You also get to choose the type of sealer coat to apply to create either a glossy or semi-glossy finish on your walls. Glossy walls are brighter but show dirt more while a semi-gloss (satin) finishes are less conspicuous.
Once you have evaluated the above, you can give your painter the go-ahead to start working on your house. In the end, you can expect a pleasing new paint job carried out in the right way, right from preparation to finishing. For more information or assistance, contact companies like COLOUR CRAFT QLD PTY LTD.
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