So my wife and I decided to paint our own house. We figured we've done everything else ourselves so why should this project be any different.
After a long process of talking about what color to paint the house, my wife picked a color and it looks great. "Thanks honey your the best."
Anyway a few tips for you before you start.
1. Try out the paint color first. You do this by painting a big enough sample area so that you can really see what the paint will look like. You need to do this because those little sample swatches that you get from the paint companies are not the same color as the paint you get. It may bare a close resemblance to the paint color you want, but I assure you it is just not the same.
Another fun thing you can do is pick the most obnoxious paint color you can find and slap it up there with the regular paint colors that you are considering. No, I do not think that you will want to paint your house some weird color, I just think it is fun to mess with the neighbors. You can even go so far as to ask them what they think. Tell them how much you really like the odd color, and then go ahead and paint your house the conventional color you really like.
If you are one of those people who really likes the odd color you need to just go with one of the other colors. No one wants to see your violet, or pink, or barn red house, and no one thinks that you are a nonconformist individual who marches to the beat of their own drum. In fact everyone will think you are a pain in the ass who just brought down the price of every house in the neighborhood.
2. Make sure you clean the exterior of your house. Paint does not in fact stick to dirt no matter how much you put on.
3. Make sure you cover the stuff you do not want paint on, bushes, bricks, windows, sidewalks, your car. Lets face it, unless you worked as a painter at some time, you are just not as good at painting as you think, and no matter what you tell your wife you will still have to clean a window or paint a frame if you do not cover them now. And god help you if you paint something important to her. By the way you will not know what that thing is until after you have painted it so do yourself a favor and just cover everything you do not want paint on.
4. Finally, and I know there are many, many, many more tips, but this is the last one for me. So here it is, do not throw out the empty paint bucket.
Why you ask? Well, because the bucket has all of the information you need on it to buy more paint. And I do not care how organized you are, you will not be able to find the little paint swatch that has the paint name and number on it.
A. This will lead to you turning your house upside down looking for the paint swatch.
B. Which will then lead to a fight between you and your beloved, where you will blame each other for losing the paint swatch and throwing out the paint bucket.
C. And finally, all of this will lead to you peeling a big piece of paint off of your newly painted house, so that you can have the little paint match machine at the store match your originally chosen paint color.
By the way these same rules apply to painting the inside of your house. So use these tips in good health and try to finish one project this week.
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