The Ultimate Guide For When To Paint

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Confused on when to paint? Different rooms need different amounts of attention over different periods of time depending on foot traffic and use. Here is the ultimate guide for when to paint which room from a professional company specializing in interior painting services.

Living Rooms:

Do you love spending time in your living room with you friends and family? Make your living room a welcoming area where your walls and your décor all come together to make a fun and inviting space to enjoy time with others.

We recommend painting your living room every 5-7 years.

Dining Rooms:

When you sit down to enjoy a wonderful meal with your friends and family you want your dining room to create an atmosphere that stimulates conversation and accentuates the enjoyability of your meal.

We recommend painting every 5-7 years, unless it's for special occasions.

Adult Bedroom

Your bedroom is the room that expresses who you are more than any other room. To have the right look you need the right sheen and the right color of the right paint. After a color consultation with The Proud Paintbrush we will begin the process of rejuvenating your bedroom with a fantastic paint job.

We recommend painting your bedroom every 5 -7 years.

Kids' Bedrooms

Do you want to transform your child’s bedroom into a new, fun environment to play in? Your child’s bedroom is a place where you can let your own inner child come back to life with a creative and imaginal look.

We recommend you paint your kids bedrooms every 2-3 years due to sticky fingers, scuffing and it is also fun painting a new color as they grow.

Kitchen:

Replacing cabinets and doors is an unnecessary expense that will cost you thousands of dollars more when you can just paint your kitchen cabinets and interior making your kitchen beautiful and inviting. A fresh coat of paint is an affordable and fun way to update your kitchen so that your home's interior feels brand new. Baseboards get banged and scuffed up, walls get stained, and cabinets get scratched but you can have them looking brand new with a quality paint made for your kitchen.

To protect your kitchen we recommend painting every 3-4 years.

Bathrooms:

Your home's bathroom has a few more painting needs than people realize which can result in neglected to provide your bathroom with the proper maintenance. In a room where moisture can collect it is important to ensure your walls are not absorbing that moisture causing mildew or mold.

Keep your bathroom looking great by painting every 3-4 years.

Hallways and Stairways

Every house has a hallway and every 2 story house has a stairway but often time’s they get neglected. These are areas of your house that get a lot of foot traffic and as a result a lot of wear and tear. When it comes to painting these areas you want a paint that can withstand the kicks and bumps your trim is going to receive and can handle fingerprints and crayon marks from children.

We recommend painting these high traffic areas every 2-3 years.

Ceilings:

For ceilings we recommend using a flat sheened paint to hide imperfections making your ceilings look clean. We then we apply two coat of flat ceiling paint to ensure any imperfections in your ceiling are covered. Our experienced painters have a system to make sure your ceilings are painted in timely matter with out sacrificing attention to detail.

We recommend painting your ceiling every 5-10 years or every other time you paint your walls.

Baseboards & Trim

Your millwork and moulding gets the most wear and tear and often times the most neglect. Your mouldings (otherwise known as trim) includes your baseboards, chair rail, crown molding, door casing, window casing, and any other decorative trim. Your millwork refers to wood work such as your fire place mantle, stair cases, hand rails, doors and window sills. These surfaces get a lot of abuse from finger prints, kicks, bumps, and having things placed on them like water glasses on window sills.

Your millwork and moldings take a beating. We recommend painting every 2-4 years for a polished look.

Is your entire interior almost ready for a paint job? Do you just want to paint your kitchen because it’s been 4 years? Give us a call or set up a free estimate and lets make your home beautiful!