Summer is a great time to do those home upgrades you’ve been putting off for too long. If you’re unsure where to start, you may want to begin with indoor house painting. After all, painting a room is one of the easiest and most economical ways to improve the appearance of your home. You can create a better atmosphere and improve your personal mood when you’re in that room. Here are signs a room in your home needs a fresh coat of paint.
1. Peeling and Cracking
Peeling and cracked paint is often a sign of poor paint quality or improper application. However, it could also signal a deeper issue, such as water damage. If you have a water leak behind your walls, it may not be seeping through the drywall and causing your paint to peel or bubble. In such a case, you’d have to address those underlying issues quickly, as you may have to replace your drywall and check for mold. If you live in a home with high humidity, the moisture from such humidity can also damage the walls and cause the paint to react accordingly.
2. Fading
Has the once vibrant color on your walls been replaced by a faded hue you can barely see anymore? As paint ages, it may fade over time, but it can quickly do so thanks to exposure to elements such as smoke, moisture, as well as UV rays. Such exposure makes your once beautiful paint job may become yellowish and dull over time. If you miss the original color, you could call your indoor house painting company to repaint it in the same hue and make those walls look new again.
3. Stains
The more activity you have in your home, the easier it is for stains to stick to your walls. Maybe you’d like to have fun parties, and sometimes people have too much to drink, which may result in the occasional glass of wine splattering everywhere. Maybe you yourself have accidentally tripped with a cup of coffee and didn’t clean it all the way up. Kitchen paints can easily suffer from such damage since you’re dealing with food and liquids on a regular basis. If you have children, they love to put their fingerprints in places where they shouldn’t. So you may have walls in your home with scuffs, stains, marks from moving furniture, footprints, etc. Sure, sometimes you can wash some of these stains away. However, some of them may be deeply entrenched in the paint, and the best way to get rid of it is with a new paint job.
4. Outdated Style
If you bought an older home but didn’t get a chance to update the paintwork or you’ve lived in the same home your whole life, it may be time to call on your local painters for a refresh. After all, a color or style that was a trend a couple of decades ago, may be obviously outdated now. If you want to keep up with the modern trendy colors, you can check housing decor magazines and websites to help you out. For example, according to The Spruce, some of the most popular house paint colors are greens, grays, and blacks. Or you could focus on a color that matches your personal trend. Maybe your favorite color has changed over the years, and you want your interior paint painted walls to reflect that. Of course, you can also forget any trends and repaint everything over in a neutral color that’s timeless, such as white, beige, or earth tones.
5. Poor Matching Color
One of the most unsightly things to see on any wall is patchy paintwork. This may happen when someone patched up a hole, repaired a crack, or covered up nail holes. Unfortunately, this patchwork results when the person doing the job wasn’t able to use the exact same paint color and finish the rest of the walls to make sure that the whole wall looks smooth. Unless you want to cover that up with a picture or other object, it’s going to stand out like a sore thumb. Therefore, it’s best to repaint the entire wall, or sometimes the whole room in the same color, so that everything blends together seamlessly.
6. Bland Color
When you walk into your room, does it feel bland and boring? Is it a space you don’t want to spend too much time in because of that fact? While there’s nothing wrong with using neutral colors, if there are too many monochromatic features going on, it can make a room feel uninspired. It may be time to add a splash of color or completely revamp all the colors in the room from the wall paint all the way down to the furniture and floors. However, if you don’t want to go too crazy with a new color scheme, you can always test the waters by adding an accent wall to balance out any of your monochromatic elements. Something as simple as a bold red or yellow wall can add life and depth to an otherwise boring room. Even if you don’t want to go too crazy with the color, you could take one hue and add subtle variations of the same shade, which creates dimension, depth, and character in the same space.
7. Too Extreme
An ideal room has a nice balance of lightness and darkness, and the ability to adjust it accordingly by way of light sources and window treatments. If you have paint that is too light or too dark, it could be too much of an extreme contrast that affects the overall atmosphere and mood. A room that’s too light or too dark can also affect the perception of the shape and size of the room. In other words, if it’s too dark, it may appear to be way too cramped. If it’s too light, it may appear too cold and sterile. Before you paint a room that veers too much into one direction of light and darkness, consider the existing or new light sources you have, as that can affect the way the color is perceived.
8. Doesn’t Fit Purpose
When It comes to wall paint, don’t forget to consider the room’s function. Various paint colors and finishes can suit different functions better than others. For example, a kitchen is a room that deals with a lot of moisture and liquids thanks to the heat, grease, moisture, smoke, and stains that come from cooking. So, when a local painter works on your kitchen walls, they should use paint that can handle those elements. If you’re one of the many people now working from home full-time or in a hybrid capacity, you want a home office conducive to concentration and productivity. A room painted in a bold red may be a little too much of a distraction, whereas a more neutral gray may be better to help you be productive.
According to HouseGrail, almost 90% of Americans feel more of a desire to spend time at home after painting a room. That’s why you should call upon our local indoor house painting services. Our team has been in the house painting business for years, and we can give your home a fresh coat of paint in the right colors and finishes that suit the mood, atmosphere, trends, or personal aesthetic you prefer. Call us at Total Pro Painters today.
