Residential Painting

Residential painting has two aspects: interior painting and exterior painting. The type of paint and finish you choose will vary significantly depending on whether you are getting the outside or the inside of your house painted.

Options For Exterior Painting

Let us first explore the important aspects you need to keep in mind when you are getting exterior residential painting done.

• The first issue is the choice of color. You should choose a paint color keeping in mind the color of your roof. This does not necessarily mean that your exterior wall color has to match the roof color completely, but it should go with it. The next aspect to keep in mind is the exterior paint color of most houses in your neighborhood.

• You would definitely not want to stick out like a sore thumb in your locality. Or even worse become a landmark of your locality, where people give each other direction by saying, "take a left after you cross that garishly painted pink house!"

• If you are only looking at hose painting for home exteriors, see if your choice of paint color matches your interiors.

• If your house is an old structure, or built to replicate the look of historical buildings, choose a color which goes with that theme.

• Highlight recesses and window sashes with a different shade or color. Typically, use at least three colors for your exterior house painting. Doors, railings and window frames are often painted using different colors. This makes the house look more attractive.

• Keep in mind the weather conditions of the area you live in. If you get a lot of rain throughout the year, you may not want to opt for an all white look. This might soon begin to get an off-white and muddy look.

• You also need to choose the sheen of the paint you want to use. You have options from glossy to mat or flat, and many variants in between.

• Before you buy up your entire requirement for your exterior residential painting job, try out the color on a small patch on your wall. This will give you an idea of what your house will look like once the painting is complete. It often happens that the color as you see on a magazine page or on the computer screen looks quite different from the way it appears when applied on the wall.

How About Interior Residential Painting?

Here, the options available to you are much more, and you can virtually give flight to your imagination. You can choose contrasting shades for different walls to make your rooms look brighter and you can choose between various types of finish and sheen. You can also get one wall embellished with some type of stenciling pattern.

Most paint stores now can give you a virtual look into what your house will look like once a residential painting job is completed. As you choose your colors and finish, the computer applies that color onto the wall and gives you a very clear idea of the look of your house even before it is actually painted.