Your Interior Brighter
Painting the interior is the fastest way to make any room look fantastic, modern and cozy.
When properly painted any interior can look brighter, larger and inviting. Most rooms take only 1 to 2 days to paint the walls, ceiling or woodwork and has the most impact.
Interior painting services of a residential painting contractor like Blank Slate Painting Co. can be instrumental when readying your home for sale too.
How are you Walls?
The most common interior painting needs are painting the walls.
Most walls are painted with eggshell paint or eggshell finish paint that has just a small amount of sheen. this makes the eggshell paint washable but not too shiny.
The most common colors at the moment are gray interior paints.
Gray interior walls have been a trend for the past 5 or so
years.
Woodwork need more Attention
The woodwork in your home needs to be painted with a more robust coating.
The best painting for woodwork is a pearl finish paint, satin finish paint or semi glosspaint. Interior paint applied to your woodwork such as doors, baseboards, windows and moldings.
These sheens make it easier to clean your painted woodwork that your residential painting contractor applied.
Its all About Preparation
Interior painting is an inexpensive way of increasing the value of your home.
Paint color changes can enhance interior lighting, mood, and perceived space.
However, there is a bit more to a quality paint job than applying paint to your walls, trim, ceiling, etc.
Preparation is where a professional paint job begins and is the most important step of all.
Set up and Preparation for Interior Painting:
Furniture is moved and covered with plastic
Fixtures are removed or covered with plastic
Floors are covered with drop clothes
Nails/screws/picture hangers are removed and holes filled.
Switch and receptacle covers are removed.
Cracks are filled and sanded smooth.
Cleaning with soap and water is done where necessary,
Surfaces are lightly sanded.
Water stains are sealed.
Cracks in trim are caulked.
Nails are countersunk where necessary.
Priming and Painting for Interiors:
Spot prime all areas repaired/prepared
Surfaces are painted with a high-quality coating according to customer’s color/sheen selection
Sherwin Williams paints are used unless otherwise noted in quote
Successive coats are applied as quoted