Interior Painting – Investigating Your Interior Painting Options
Professional Interior Painting Brings Your Home to Life
The best and least expensive way to give your home a makeover is interior painting. Even homeowners who are inexperienced in painting and hiring professional painters, can successfully plan a new home design. Following is a list of “pointers from the pros” that will get you started on the new look you’ve envisioned with minimal disruption.
Gathering Opinions and Picking Colors
Every family member has his own preference and ideas about color. It helps to purchase small sample sizes of each person’s top choice and find one everyone can agree on. Deciding on the color that looks best on the walls before you bring in a professional to paint will keep all family members happy.
Tying a Room Together
A great approach to painting interior rooms is accenting a favorite piece of art or furniture that is currently serving as the focal point. Here, professional interior painters use their talents to coordinate colors so that the artwork or furniture fabric stands out, and the wall color highlights the item perfectly. Working with paint to complement the background of a focal point is one trick-of-the-trade that works extremely well.
Another way interior painters bring a room together is with the second most prominent color in the art piece or furniture. Use this color as the trim or accent color in the room, or paint one entire wall this color. Then, the brightest color in the fabric can be the secondary accent which creates a stunning effect in the room.
Getting the Right Paint for the job
Once you have agreed on your color palette, it’s very important to match the paint type to the different functions of the rooms in your house. The bathroom, for example, has high humidity, and the paint has to be able to accommodate this. Today’s semi-gloss acrylics have an advantage over enamels which were once used exclusively, because of their strong adhesion to previously painted surfaces. Acrylics can also be washed without damage, and they are resistant to water vapor penetration and staining. These features make them suitable for kitchens as well.
For the most part, bedrooms should be soothing and relaxing. Thus, using glossy paints will disrupt that calm by reflecting both ambient and natural light. Generally, a flat or eggshell finish makes the most sense for these rooms.
Flat, non-reflective finishes do very well for ceilings, the one place that might not be in the best condition. These paints provide excellent coverage and hide imperfections, and will save on finishing time as well.
At Cardinal Painting we work hard to help our clients create the home they’ve always dreamed of, both inside and out.
Give us a call at (630) 281-2807, and one of our painting professionals will come out to your home for a free consultation. Be sure to ask about our 100% satisfaction guarantee!
