Interior walls show inner décor of the home whereas exterior walls are amazing for external embellishment of the home. The effects of wall colors miraculously realize your character and your home as well. Interior wall painting adds to the charm of your home whereas exterior wall paint protects the home against rain and snow. It is the most creative decision to choose right color and finish for the walls. However the following are some choices of the paint for interior and exterior walls.
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Paints for Interior Walls
- Latex/Water Based Paints: These paints do not fade away easily, less likely to crack or peel and have fewer odors. Moreover, latex paints are fast-drying and require only water for thinning and clean up.
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- Oil-Based Paints: These paints are better choice for interior walls as they are extremely durable. Oil-based paints are slow-drying and require mineral spirits for thinning and clean up. The only drawback of these paints is that they have strong odor.
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- Vinyl-Acrylic Latex Paints: They are the least expensive and suitable for most interior walls as they have durable color and better adhesion.
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Enamels: It is a type of oil based paint with better adhesion qualities. It is reasonably durable and stain resistant. It provides softness and cheerfulness to the surface. It has better gloss than vinyl-acrylics.
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Finishing of the Interior Paints
- Use a flat finishing for interior walls as it provides non reflective and rich finishing. Flat finishing is also great at hiding irregularities and surface imperfections.
- Apply high-gloss finishing which is also a good choice for its high shinning and easy cleaning.
- Apply insulation on the surface.
Paints for Exterior Walls
While choosing color of the paint and finish, it’s hard to decide which paint will suitable for the exterior walls. When you choose paint for exterior surface/walls, you should decide ease of application, protection against weather and the most important is its quality. They should be attractive yet durable enough to withstand weathering. The paints for exterior surfaces (such as brick, cement, stucco, cinder block and asbestos-cement) include following types.
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- Cement-Based Paints: It is water based paint and is applied on the peripheral surface of the house. It is highly water resistant and gives the finest outcome on newly concrete surface.
- Acrylic emulsion paint: It provides excellent protection against vagaries of nature withstanding fairly extreme of heat and cold and rain. Also it’s extremely resistant to fungus, algae and peeling and remains effective for 4-5 year.
Finishing of Exterior Surfaces
Exterior surfaces require special finishing with specific qualities which are following.
- Weather coat textured.
- Highly durable, weather resistant, masonry paint.
- Texture hides fine cracks.
- Suitable for most exterior masonry surfaces.
- Weather coat smooth.
- Smooth exterior wall paint with a tough, durable finish.
- Provides long lasting weather protection.
NOTE: Oil-based paints are not generally used on exterior because of the adverse effects of varing weather conditions.
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White (and its various forms such as off-white, beige, and eggshell) is popular and an all time favorite choice. It can be boring and too plain sometimes, but it also doesn't distract. It also makes a room look brighter and bigger.
It's great for just about any room, especially bathrooms and kitchens.
One of the biggest problems you face is -what looks to be "orange" on the sample in the store turns out to be "brown" on your wall. So it's really important to pick the right shade of paint by examining it under different sources of light.
The ceiling is looked at more often in the bedroom than in any other room. Decorating this place is an excellent way to give your bedroom a complete and well-designed look.
The kitchen is a place that requires frequent cleaning and maintenance. So select the right kind of paint.
As children’s rooms tend to be used frequently, it is very important that a high quality, washable paint should be used in order to remove hand prints, food stains, crayons and markers. So use the right kind of paint
Select latex /water based paints for interior walls because they do not fade away easily, less likely to crack or peel and have less odour .Moreover, latex paints are fast-drying and require only water for thinning and clean up.
Very high shining paint is quite reflective and should normally be reserved for doors and trims and to create special effects
Bedroom is a place where you spend the time for complete relaxation , so the type of paint and its finishing is essential factor if you want a neatly painted bedroom.
Paint is the job on which you spend a lot of money and time.
Not only on purchasing but also on labor you have to put extra efforts in choosing the right type, color of the paint, etc. which you would not desire to spend again and again. Hence, some careful steps should be taken
Surface preparation is 90 per cent of a painting job. Even the highest quality paint won’t adhere properly if the underlying surface is not prepared correctly. Good preparation requires the surface to be cleaned and smooth.
Fresh cemented wall should never be painted. Allow the cement to set well for at least 28 days
Outdoor walls always take a beating from the wind, rain and changes in temperature, these results in cracks. They can be filled so that you can get your wall looking as good as new.
When you plan your interior paint job, look at the environment in which your color will appear
Basic things required while painting are:
To do that, measure your room: 3-inch flat brush.
Small angled brush for trim or corners
Plaster of Paris (Pop) provides a thin and smooth finishing to a plastered wall.It needs to be applied first to provide smoothness and a solid surface for the painting.
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