How should someone choose paint colors for their house? This question describes the different options when looking for a good color to paint your house. Most places where you go to buy materials and paints...
Most places where you go to buy materials and paints for houses, apartments, or condos, have a wide variety of colors you can pick from. A lot of them have fan sticks on display, and they will have all of the colors that they have posted on the display. You can pick your colors there and they have their own formulas. Most companies have their own formulas for their own types of paints. If you are going to paint metal, you have metal paint for metal. If you want to paint stucco, there is a stucco paint that is specially made with an elastic-type paint that will last forever on stucco, just about.
Q: What is a quality paint someone can buy at their local store?
Pittsburgh is a good paint. They don't advertise like Benjamin Moore or Sherwin Williams, but it is the second largest company in the United States. Use a good oil-based primer and use a medium-grade paint. Many times, the medium-grade paint is as good as the top-of-the-line paints and they are cheaper. You might have to paint every four to five years as apposed to six or seven years, but it depends on how much you want to spend.
Q: Is it worth spending extra money for top quality paint?
Not really, the top of the lines vary. It depends on how much advertising they give out on the paper or magazines or T.V. Many times you are paying for the advertisements. You can get a name brand paint that doesn't advertise as much and get their top of the line, quality paint.
Q: What is a good color to avoid picking out?
If I were going to use a dark color, I would only put it on the face board or the trim, and not on the body itself.
Q: So, don't pick dark blue or black, colors like that?
You aren't going to spend that much on those colors anyway. The most you would probably need is about two to three gallons on the trim, and you will give it two coats. Those dark colors are going to cost you more money because they are made especially for that all of the time. They are meant to withstand the sun, but they are more expensive. The deeper the color, the more expensive it gets. Unless you are going to radically change the color of the house and go to some deep color, I would stay medium on the walls and just go dark on the trim.
