Exterior Painting Tips | Paint the Outside of your Home like a Professional Painter

Take your time
Consider the design, age, and size. If your home is older honour the past and use heritage paint colours or spice it up and dramatize architectural detail – sometimes it’s wise to invest in a colour designer.
Consider the surface of your exterior. Some colours look fab on a plaster finish but not on weatherboards.
Read magazines, make a scrap book, choose what makes you feel great every time you arrive home.
Go for a Sunday walk in your neighbourhood, take a camera and take a photo of what you like.
Borrow from nature – think about the year round colours in your garden.

Check your roof – if you love the colour & it doesn’t need a paint make sure you consider it.
Look and allow for things like brick work that won’t be painted.
Pick out the best features – this may be your front door, gables or posts you may end up with 3 – 5 colours.
Discover colour families.
Use light to paint colours to add size, go dark for drama (front door, sills) but consider symmetry.
Find inspiration in your home – colours in your interior will guide you to an exterior colour, one of your goals is to create flow and harmonize.

Check out paint finishes – matt, semi gloss and gloss – the sheen level can take your house from flat and lifeless to smooth, shiny and sexy.
Call us with your test pot colours and we’ll pick them up, deliver and paint on your walls
Look at the colour throughout the day – colours and sheen levels can appear different in differing light
End result – your house oozes street appear and most of all you love it!

Mark Withers Ltd