If you thought that choosing interior paint colors was challenging, just wait until you are ready to choose exterior paint colors! While the options are seemingly endless, there are a few ways to narrow down your choices. Whether you are painting your house for resale value, or you’re ready for a fresh look for your family home, follow these simple tips in order to get the best look: Get bold While it may be easy to choose white as your exterior paint, it may not be the best

Have you ever touched up the paint in your home only to find that the color looks completely different? Surprisingly enough, it may not be the color that is off. Paint also comes in a variety of finishes that give your walls a different look depending on the amount of sheen mixed into the paint. When choosing a paint finish, it’s important to consider the area/room you are painting. If you thought choosing the color was difficult, choosing the right wall paint finish may be j

Choosing the right paint colors for your home is no easy task. While paint isn’t permanent, insofar as you can always paint over it with another color, you’re still more than justified in treating it as a long-term change. What this means in practical terms is that you want to get it right the first time. That means you’ll want to obtain some home color samples. Taking color samples for a test run is important for finding just the right shade and finish, but there’s a right a

Why should you paint rooms on the interior of a house? You will be better able to answer this question when the paint job is completed. At that time you will be proud of the beautiful new rooms that you have created. An interior paint job makes the home more attractive, clean, fresh and beautiful, just like it is brand new. Nothing improves the appearance of the home better than a fresh paint job. Before you paint there may be holes or cracks in the walls and ceiling. Also fu

Most of the information I have seen about painting around furniture while working on your interior house painting project tells you to move all of the furniture to the center of the room. This really is not very helpful. Think about a bedroom or living room. If you move all of the furniture to the middle of the room, you have created a huge obstacle to paint around. Even with the proper extension pole for your paint roller, such an obstacle in the center of the room is hard t

I will be adding a series of interior house painting instructions, as well as more information on the hazards of lead paint, wearing the proper respirator during painting projects and other safety precautions. I am beginning this series of articles with a post about removing wallpaper. For this job you will need sheets of plastic drop cloths, a garden type sprayer, and a wallpaper scraper with a razor blade that can be changed when dull, or a spackle knife. The razor scraper

A REVOLUTIONARY STEP IN METALLIC EPOXY FLOOR Metallic floor coating is a 100% solids, two component epoxy specially formulated with a metallic pigment It is roller or squeegee applied to your floor This coating requires a primer coat metallic 100% solids epoxy basecoat, an optional UV resistant urethane or 100% Solids epoxy clear coat. The finished look is a smooth, glass like finish that has a unique and subtle sparkle. No two floors will ever look the same. There are endles

To begin with proper preparation, you have to be knowledgeable of the substrate you are applying to. Pressure washing your project area is your first step – be careful that you don’t apply to much pressure to wood siding, as it could damage the surface. Once your surface is cleaned off, scrape off and sand any excess paint remaining. Choose a proper primer for your substrate – use a quality masonry primer if it is Stucco, CMU block or brick, or use a quality primer for a

Listol Painting, Inc.has completed many repaint projects working with factory painted steel building walls and roofs. The years of sun takes its abuse fading and eventually deteriorating the steel finish into oblivion. Today’s post focuses on two subjects: how to paint steel building walls and how to paint a steel roof. Walls need to be prepped correctly, and I start by sanding the rough and/or rusty areas out with a Random Orbital Sander using a fine finish sanding pad (ab

Spray pumps come in a variety of sizes and strengths, but for the home owners, it boils down to using it one or two times and forgetting it in the garage. I recommend that you rent it from your nearest rental center and the size of the gun only needs to be a Titan 440 or a Graco 450. The tips to use: If you are wanting a significant amount of paint to apply, like doing an exterior stucco project, use a 517. Anything bigger and you’ll have an issue with your pump keeping up