Maintaining the aesthetics of the interior of a home is very important, but equally important is the exterior. The outside of a home is the first impression that your house makes to friends and potential future buyers. It can even prove lucrative for an entire community; look at Tobermory in Scotland and its famous housing colour scheme – it spawned an entire television show.
Any painting of a home’s exterior is ideally suited to the summer, where you will not be subject to bad weather and have longer days to get the work done.
Painting a home has numerous beneficial factors once accomplished. A newly painted house is much more appealing to the eye. It can be made more modern and allows you to exert your personality over your home. There are many ways that you can use paint to optimum effect when trying to redecorate your home.
Consider the impact of painting a fence, this is a way to make a tangible change with minimum cost. If you use an appropriate paint, in particularly Rawlins heat resistant paint, which has been designed for use on wood, then the effect can be truly transformative to both a garden and an outside perimeter fence.
Another idea in a similar vein is to paint over a wall. This will be a more expensive option and the same rules apply regarding the use of appropriate paint, but the effect will rejuvenate any exterior vista. It is important that you don’t just paint over cracks however, and do the prerequisite restoring work before you begin.
Choosing the right colour for your doors and windows (whether they match is your choice!) is another important factor in how a house looks. This is a good opportunity to impart a bit of your own personality onto your residential space.
There are numerous laws in place that have the potential of limiting what you can do with your home’s exterior particularly in areas that have a certain shared heritage. Largely you will have complete freedom over your home. The exceptions are where the building is listed – meaning that it is of significant value to remain as it is – or alternatively if you are in a conservation area.
Painting parts of your home’s exterior is an excellent way to create a fuller, more holistic exterior visage of your property and when done piecemeal, it can also be both affordable and an enjoyable summertime venture. It improves both the appeal, and the value of a home too.