The color palettes that Rancho Santa Fe CA, property owners select for the interior of their homes speak volumes about individual taste and style. With the holidays just around the corner, many homeowners plan to update their home interior color schemes to either match the festive season or make their properties as attractive as possible to impress dinner and visiting guests.
If you’re struggling with creating a new color palette or concerned about completing this year’s painting project on time for your upcoming hosted events or visitors, you don’t need to worry. Our team at Muse Painting created this guide to provide you with some great tips to help you make the best decisions for your interior painting project.
Don’t Put Off Important Maintenance
The quality of your home in terms of materials and its overall appearance can impact the color palette you select and even the outcome of your painting project. You need to address repair issues of any sort, such as water leaks and stains, pest-related damage or cracked, deteriorating or missing structural pieces or materials, before painting. Not only can these problems worsen over time until they damage any new paint applied to surfaces, but repair specialists, even professionals, can accidentally damage surfaces while fixing these areas. It makes little sense to start painting walls if a plumber needs to cut into them to reach leaking pipes, a carpenter needs to replace wood beams or other structures, or a contractor needs to apply fresh plaster.
Create Warmth in High-Traffic Areas
If you haven’t yet chosen specific areas to paint, consider updating at least the living room, the kitchen and family or guest bedrooms with attractive colors that stand out and create a sense of warmth, such as yellow, orange, red and green. Although temperatures won’t dip too low in Rancho Santa Fe, you can still expect the air to become just cool enough this holiday season to make all guests and visiting loved ones uncomfortable and in search of warmth. These colors also brighten rooms and match the season and the various holidays from now through the end of the year.
Think About Ways to Accentuate Areas
Budget considerations and costs related to keeping a home up-to-date with changing seasonal color schemes are other factors that can impact a homeowner’s decisions about refreshing their home with a new paint palette. The good news is that you don’t need to make drastic changes to give your home a new look this holiday season. Accent painting is a technique used by professional interior painters to update the appearance of a room without repainting the entire space.
Instead of picking one or two new colors for a room’s ceiling or walls, for example, pick one color for one wall. You might choose a color that’s a slightly different shade than the current one, creates seasonal or holiday warmth, or deeply contrasts with other colors in the room. A simple accent wall changes the focal point in a room. It can make a statement standalone or serve as the backdrop for artwork. It can also highlight the location of a beverage bar or buffet table, special decorations or even a holiday photoshoot area.
When making an accent painting decision, you need to also take into account the decorations, furniture and other objects you plan to use near or against the new paint color. Some colors act in a complementary fashion, and some stand out too starkly and create a discordant feeling when people look at them. Additionally, keep in mind that other budget-friendly accent options exist. You can make a considerable change to a room’s appearance by simply changing the color of the ornamental molding. In kitchens and bathrooms, for example, you can make spaces inviting and comfortable by merely painting the cabinets a new color.
Ask How Interior Painting Professionals Can Help
Given the holiday season, interior painting specialists often offer painting project deals to help homeowners prepare for seasonal cooler temperatures and holiday gatherings. An affordable, professional painting solution is the wisest course of action to prevent do-it-yourself mistakes that can result in costly repainting disruptions.
Our team at our Muse Painting has proudly helped our neighbors in Rancho Santa Fe CA achieve their seasonal holiday painting dreams quickly, efficiently, on time and within budget for more than 20 years. Each of our interior painting specialists is fully insured and licensed and has a fantastic design, customer service and project track record. Contact a member of our team today at (619) 988-2429 to learn more about how we can help you select the best colors for your home renovation project and perform the necessary painting updates in time for the holidays.
