How Often Should You Paint Your Interior Walls?

Making your Saskatoon home look its best includes choosing colours that complement the interior. However, because styles and even your own tastes change, you may paint and repaint often. While this can keep your home’s style updated, it may also take a toll on your walls. At Handyman Connection, we want to help you make the best choices possible by pointing out a few pros and cons of frequent painting, as well as offering you a wide variety of painting services in Saskatoon. 

1. Pro: Maintaining a Modern Look 

One major advantage of painting your home’s interior every few years is the ability to keep up with design trends and maintaining a fresh, modern appearance for each room, such as a guest bedroom and the living room. Tracking popular colour schemes can offer you several advantages, including: 

• A possible higher resale value for your home 
• The opportunity to design the interior around new colours 
• A continuously exciting appearance to delight your guests 

Discussing popular colour trends with our painting professionals can help you make the most informed decision about which to choose. If you have specific decor in mind for a room, such as throw pillows, smaller pieces of furniture and carpeting, sharing colour samples with our painting crew can help create a seamless yet exciting design. 

2. Con: The Need for Multiple Coats 

Depending on the colour changes you choose, our handymen may have to apply several coats of paint to an area, especially if the existing colour is darker than the new shade. If the existing colour proves to make the new shade appear uneven or changes its hue, our painting technicians may have to scrape away much of the old paint. This can extend the time needed to complete the job. 

If any walls require scraping, our painters will keep you in the loop about any additional work that may need completing before the painting can begin. This can help you stay within your painting budget and give you peace of mind that the end result is created with quality in mind. 

3. Pro: You Can Transform Any Room 

Time changes everything, especially when it comes to how you use certain rooms in your home. A sewing room may become a nursery or a grown child’s bedroom may become a home office. Our painting services in Saskatoon can transform any room to suit its purpose, whether you want sky-blue walls to welcome a new baby boy or whimsical borders for a crafting room. 

If you are unsure about what colours reflect a room’s purpose, our handymen can help you decide which shades go well together and compliment any furniture or other decor you plan to use. Do not hesitate to share your vision and offer our painters as much information as possible so you can work together to create a unique and beautiful space. 

4. Con: Walls May Need Additional Treatment 

While many types of modern paint tend to bond well to any type of interior building material, such as drywall, some surfaces may need cleaning or sanding before the painting process can begin. This is usually true of older surfaces that may have cracks, uneven areas or marks that paint cannot cover. Our experienced technicians can handle this type of problem,  but it may extend the time necessary to properly execute the desired result. In many cases, walls may simply require cleaning with water and a mild detergent to wash away stains or other marks that may interfere with applying new paint. 

While painting the interior of your home frequently can have several drawbacks, hiring a knowledgeable crew can help eliminate them. Contact us today for a an estimate and for more information about our painting services in Saskatoon that can give your home’s interior a smart new look.