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When choosing a new paint color for a room in your home, it can get a little stressful. Paint isn’t exactly erasable, so you definitely don’t want to make any mistakes. You also don’t want to pick the wrong color and regret it later. Let’s walk through a few questions you might ask yourself when picking the right color and paint style for your home. What Type of Paint Should You Use? Before deciding what color to use, you want to decide which style of paint you will use. Paint comes in many different sheens. Sheens are just the glossiness of the paint. Paint can also come in mattes, oils, and latex. Shinier paints will reflect light while flat (matte) paints will defuse the light in a range of directions. Latex paint is the most common choice due to the easy clean-up, low maintenance, and long lasting durability. Latex fades less than other paints, and breathes better as well. Leaving less chance of blistering and cracks in your paint. Oil based paints offer a nicer touch to real wood, but not all of your walls are real wood. When painting your Dallas home, you might notice most of your walls are dry wall. If you have wood trim around your doorways, that is a wonderful place to apply oil based paints. Just be careful because oil based paints take longer to dry than latex. Which Sheen Should I Use? When deciding how glossy you want your walls, the decision is really up to you. There are recommendations in place that can be offered by paint companies, Home Depot, and home improvement websites. A nice tip is, the glossier the paint, the easier the clean-up. If you are painting a children's room, or a kitchen, it is smart to paint the walls a higher gloss than that of your living room. The walls in a play room or kitchen are likely to get greasier than the other rooms. Glossier walls are easier to wipe dirt and grease off of. High gloss will also give you the appearance of a nice finish. Shiny walls are appealing in most houses for sale as they tend to make the home look more open. Semi-gloss is also a wonderful choice for kitchens as it allows easy clean-up without making your room look too shiny. What Color Should I Use? Picking the color of your walls can be the most difficult part. If you plan to sell your home anytime soon, white or off-white walls tend to be the best choice. Those particular colors make the rooms in your home look bigger, while allowing the new owner to repaint the walls whatever color they may choose. Although, if you have the ability to pick from the entire color spectrum, colors like blues, greens, and purples make small rooms appear bigger than they actually are. Most restaurants decide to paint their walls red because the color appeals to the appetite/hunger section of your brain. Red is a common choice for household kitchens. When painting your home in Dallas, it never hurts to ask for an expert's advice. Take advantage of color swatches offered in paint stores since sampling different shades of a similar color will not harm a section of your wall.
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