Advice on painting domestic interiors


Are you a bit fed up of white and magnolia walls and ceilings? I don’t blame you, after all, the only reason the interior and exterior of your property is a bit basic with the colour scheme, is because decorating contractors get good rates on the most common colours. Perhaps you have never picked up a paintbrush in your life, except at school, with someone looking over your shoulder. Well, read on to settle your nerves.......

 

 

 

There are lots of online resources about how to paint rooms in your home, starting with choosing the right color and type of paint depending on the area. Even on decorating woodwork. You can also visit your local hardware store, paint store, or home improvement center and take a look at the different types and paint and the colors that are available. When choosing a color to paint rooms in your home, you should first consider what the room is primarily used for, and what type of feel or mood you want the room to have. The color of the furniture and other fixtures should also be taken into consideration when choosing colors to paint rooms. While you're out browsing for supplies to paint rooms in your home, pick up a few paint sample cards with various complementing shades of popular colors. Paint rooms in your new or existing home to improve your home's appearance and complement your style of home decor. Now you are ready to repair the walls. Next you can paint the ceiling. I paint all four walls using the roller's open end, rubbing up against the wall tightly to fill in the corner between the wall and ceiling only leaving the 4 corner points to be brushed in with only a dab.

Make sure you don't leave heavy brush marks on the wall. Note: I use professional trade paints as I find this paint is the best to work with.  Professional painters & decorators can always help you out of course, for the tricky bits.


Painting a room white will make the room look bigger and cleaner (until your three year old decides to smear a mural of ketchup on the back wall). Painting with white can give rooms a pure and bright look, while using that white to accentuate other colors. Like white, black is an ideal color when you want to mix and match shades. A room used for entertaining can benefit from the use of bright (but not too bright) orange and a room used for relaxing can benefit from a darker orange. But orange, like all colors, has its limits: you have to be careful of the colors you mix and match. Blue is perhaps the most natural of colors: the sky is blue, the ocean is blue, even peoples' moods are sometimes described as blue. Green has the unique ability to emit freshness: painting a wall the regular shade of green is like panting your house with a garden. Like blue, green is also very natural: grass is green, trees are green, and the stems of flowers are green. The color red is a dichotomy: it represents both danger and romance.