Choosing a Good Exterior Color for At-Home Use

Are you planning to redesign your outdated home into a classy place? If so, painting can be a smart way of renovating such a space. For example, you can decorate the walls of old rooms and transform them into your dream house. As simple as it may sound, choosing a good exterior color to repaint your home can be tricky. Read this guide till the end to know how to pick the best dye to match the place you’ve always dreamt of.  

How to Choose the Perfect Exterior Color Based on Usage

Want a matt or brilliant exterior color? While it might not sound like the finish you want will significantly affect how the end coat is finished and finished. Florida paint finishes are not tricky and fast, but preferably paint sheens are available in various rooms in your home.

You have gloss paint on the reflective side and dark paint on the matt side. Simple, okay? This isn’t all that. In the meantime, there are a few solutions. Eggshell, satin, and half-gloss most commonly.

For trim, enclosures, and doors, Gloss paint is fine. It is long-lasting and shows a lot of light, helping to gain interest and bring out the accent colors. Gloss is not pleasant but may hide and attract attention to imperfections.

Semi-gloss is ideal for rooms that are concerned with humidity (think kitchens or laundry areas).

The most famous house areas (think living rooms and bathrooms) are eggshell paints, often traded with satin. Think of the middle of the way in these paintings. They are pretty robust, good to clean and do ‘all right’ masking imperfections. They’re pretty easy.

You’ve finally become dull. This is excellent to hide imperfections, but it can be a cleaning headache and not all that long-lasting. Reserve matte paint to limit scrubbing to a minimum in the lower traffic areas of your house.

Although you can choose what to do with the entire house, our personal guidelines for the use of each paint sheen style are:

Matte

  • Ceilings
  • Low-Traffic Rooms
  • Accent Walls

Gloss

  • Kitchens
  • Doors
  • Cabinets

Eggshell

  • The Living Room
  • Dining Rooms
  • Bathrooms

Semi-Gloss

  • Bathrooms
  • Doors
  • Trims

Satin

  • Laundry Rooms
  • Kids’ Rooms
  • Hallways

How to Choose the Best Exterior Color Based on Area & Age

Starting with a good brand can give the outside of your home fewer cracks, the shift of color and dirt, and mildew. So, what’s the ending in it?

The external coating is not either matte or matt. You can choose from a wide variety of finishes. Go on older, weather-worn walls with a matte (also called flat). This finish is ideal for masking your home’s external imperfections. If you have a newer house, where marks aren’t so plentiful, you might take an eggshell.

Half-gloss and gloss can be trimmed on the outside of your building.

Just as in your cabinets and doors in your kitchen, your home can be illustrated in glossier exterior color. (Moreover, they’re a clean breeze!)

Semi-Gloss

  • Shutters
  • Trim and Doors

Flat

  • Weather-Worn Walls
  • Brick
  • Vinyl Walls and Siding

Final Thoughts on Good Exterior Color & At-Home Paints

At the end of the day, you pick the color you are using outside or inside your house. But you can first place longevity and convenience. Cutting corners with inexpensive paint would only cost you more in time if you always need fresh paint.

If you’re still in awe of paint or are more than happy to mask your old color, please contact us to make the next step towards fresh paint on your building.

John Dutton

John Dutton

Hi! I'm John Dutton and I've been in the repair field for 20+ years. I decided to start this blog to help other people with some of the tips and tricks I have learned over my career. I hope you find this information helpful and please check back often for updated content.

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John Dutton

Hi! I'm John Dutton and I've been in the repair field for 20+ years. I decided to start this blog to help other people with some of the tips and tricks I have learned over my career. I hope you find this information helpful and please check back often for updated content.

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