Repainting Makes Your Walls Look Far Cleaner – Advice on Spring Cleaning from Washington, DC area painting contractor
It’s easy to look right past your old paint job without seeing it, you’re so used to the sight of the familiar grease stains, fingerprints, pen marks, and accumulated dust. It isn’t until you see your walls with a fresh paint job that you can really measure how dirty your walls have become over the years. Which is why a fresh paint job should be the centerpiece of your spring cleaning efforts.
On interiors, filth tends to collect on trim, in kitchens and bathrooms, and in high-traffic areas like hallways and stairwells. Even if the bulk of the surface area on your walls is in pretty good shape, buying a single gallon of paint in a lively color and freshening up the trim around doors, windows, and molding can make a huge difference in how fresh your house looks, not to mention giving you a good excuse to go for a color change in preparation for spring.
For the exterior, once the weather clears enough to get work done, you want to assess the damage done to your siding, masonry, decking, patios, and fences during the harsh winter months. Decks might have weathered from holding all of the winter’s snow, while siding and masonry might have sustained water damage. It is also worth inspecting your gutters, the rims of your roof, and the interior of your home just under the eaves for evidence of water damage resulting from ice dams. Once you have a solid inventory of the damage, getting your exterior repainted, and your deck or fencing stained and sealed, prior to the onset of the spring rains and prior to the full flowering of your spring landscaping, is a good way to beautify your exterior in anticipation of the spring.
Taking the time to repaint, even if it’s just a small area of your home, can really go a long way toward making your space look refreshed, and make you feel renewed and ready for spring.