Sandpaper: Getting to Grips with the Nitty Gritty
These days, more homeowners than ever before are making the decision to go ahead with their own painting and home improvement projects. Better tools, premium paints and lower costs across the spectrum are encouraging those with a taste for the DIY lifestyle to get busy with the brush at home. And of course, the fact […]
Exterior Paint Removal – Negotiating a Necessary Evil
There are certain parts of the home painting process that are inherently more enjoyable than others. In fact, if you were to ask any sample group of people, chances are most of them wouldn’t mind the prospect of grabbing a brush, a bucket and making with the painting. Unfortunately, the preparation process is pain in […]
Disappointing DIY Paint Job? Here’s What Probably Went Wrong
While some get a real kick out of exterior home painting, for others it’s the chore to end all chores. Admittedly, the latter category has considerably more members than the former. Nevertheless, exterior home painting is the kind of thing you can’t realistically avoid. That is, unless you don’t mind the prospect of your home […]
Six Tips for Selecting Exterior Home Paint Colors
Whether you’ve made the decision to paint the exterior of your home yourself or to bring in the professionals, there’s still one important choice only you can make. That being, the color (or combination of colors) to use for your home’s exterior. If this is a process you have ever gone about before, you’ll know […]
Painting Brick-Wall Exteriors as the Pros Do
Brick walls have a reputation for being extraordinarily difficult to paint properly. The reason being that bricks are porous and therefore have a habit of soaking up paint like a sponge. Which is precisely why this is a job most people tend to avoid when and where possible. The thing is though, brick walls don’t […]
5 Reasons Why Painting Exteriors With a Brush Isn’t So Crazy After All
When looking to paint particularly extensive home exteriors, two tools immediately come to mind. Those being the increasingly popular paint sprayer and the classic paint roller. In fact, the only approach you probably won’t consider at all is that of the traditional brush. For a few precision points maybe, but certainly not for the whole […]
Exterior Paint Choices: Flat or Satin Finish?
As anybody who’s ever gone about the job will know, selecting the perfect paint for a property’s exterior isn’t exactly easy. Selecting the ideal color is difficult enough, but then there is also the question of flat and satin finishes. You know that your home’s exterior is exposed to UV rays, snow, wind, rain and […]
Exterior Home Painting: 10 Things You Need to Know First
Depending on the way you go about the job, painting the exterior of your home can be anything from a real joy to an unmitigated nightmare. On which side of the scale it lands…well, most of it comes down to you and the decisions/actions you take along the way. On the plus side, it doesn’t […]
