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Exterior Painting – Choosing a Color You Can Live In no comments
A house is the structure that keeps you safe from the elements, as well as the place where you build a life with the people that you love. When people come to your home for the first time, their impression of your home is very important, as it is an extension of who you are as a person. If you’re tired of welcoming people to your home that is an abrupt color, faded, or peeling, you might be thinking about starting an exterior painting project. Before you hire a company to start stripping, sanding, and painting, you have to choose a color that you’re going to be comfortable living in for the next few years.
One of the first things you have to do before you start looking for someone to head up your exterior painting project is to decide which colors are going to combine in just the right ways to draw out the features that make your home unique, and blend in the little blemishes that you might not want people to be able to see from the street. Choosing paint combinations can be terrifying, and everyone has at least one friend that is living in a loudly colored house simply because “the paint looked different in the can!” If you don’t want to have that experience, it’s important to keep these tips in mind.
One of the most time tested rules of exterior painting is to choose colors that honor history. If you’re trying to spruce up an older home, it’s always better to stick with colors that were popular in the time that the home was built. Many professional painters can be hired to analyze the old paint chips from older layers of coloring, and match the hues to paint colors that exist today. You might not get it exactly right, but you’ll be able to create an age appropriate effect.
Another thing that always works when you’re struggling to choose colors for an exterior painting project is taking a hint from your neighbors. If all the houses on your block tend to be lighter whites and grays with darker shutters and trim, your house is really going to look out of place if you paint it primary colors. Even though you want your house to be unique, the most useful color palette to choose from can be the ones that already exist in your neighborhood.