How to paint a space and use the light properly?

1. Why it is necessary to paint a real estate product?

A first double answer is: to give a personal touch or to make it shine. Obviously, if you don't feel able to do so, you can always hire someone else.

To observe is the first step to be done in order to perceive the problems. For example, is the wall cracked or is there humidity? You must act against both phaenomena.

Without the existence of previous lacks when it comes to coloring? When the move is over, when you are in a home renovation, when you are about to sell or rent and, as we said at the beginning, you want to transform the space.

In the second point we explain how to do this.

2. How to paint successfully:

The task requires: care to avoid mistakes that make you look bad, and endurance to finish it.

2.1. Cleaning and avoiding the accidental paint degotation

When you are working to clean is a precondition. Once it has been achieved, it preserves both the floor and the furniture with plastics, covering  furniture edges, windows and doors.

2.2. Getting the right mixture in search of the tone

One thing that is often forgotten is that you have to combine the colors in a single container.

2.3 It is always better to use waterproofing paints!

This type of pigment, which can be used in exteriors and interiors, is a vaccine to avoid humidity, filtrations and water leaks.

2.4. Uncover brush and roller!

Api.cat explains that the paint must be applied, distributed correctly and smoothed to obtain a uniform result on the entire surface.

The brush:

Introduce it well up to a third inside the paint tray, not all of it:

- To delineate an edge, use the narrow side of the brush

- It is painted from the dry area to the fresh paint.

- To paint flat surfaces well, use the wide part of the brush.

- To paint large surfaces, apply the paint with three diagonal strokes".

The roller:

- "The areas have to be painted in small sections and from the surfaces that are dry to which they have fresher paint to avoid marks.

- Before starting to paint it must be slightly wet with water to avoid possible loose lumps.

- Put the roller inside the tray with paint making it roll from one end to another of the walls to spread paint over all its surface".

3. The collecting operation

When you finish the work you must clean, leave in perfect condition what we you have used and clean while allowing the paint to dry as long as necessary. Especially focus on leaving the tools bright must be done with: water and soap. Once finished you have to dry the tools with kitchen paper, rags or newspaper.

4. What color is better to choose?

Our readers will be surprised because we have not yet discussed the color properties. Now we will do it with two criteria: which pigment has to be chosen and when to choose each one.

In order to give color, we must take into account the light amount that is projected onto the area where we paint:

When it comes to giving color in a very outdoor room, you have to bet on cold colors (green, blue or pink). The furniture speaks "cope" with pigments and appropriate gradations when the sun shines. What color or artistic technique to choose to combat the lack of light?

"Pastel shades: they fit with clear shapes and patterns (...)"

Bright colors on a white wall: "a white wall can be aesthetically more attractive if you choose images or photographs with bright colors or red or black frames".

The technique of printing color on a single wall: create contrasts with light-colored furniture or walls in softer shades". However, in dark rooms "you should not bathe the wall in color".

Sea blue and yellow - not very intense - give the rooms a Mediterranean, light and serene appearance.

Intense bruising: helps you relax. In this sense, we must bear in mind that intense shades mean depth and perspective.

Brown or moderate green: give a rustic aspect.

White: it is a usual resource to give clarity and brightness in open spaces.

Black and white: Nordic Design combines the two most famous opposites to give beauty.

5. How do you regulate the amount of light the room receives? The curtains and windows role

It is necessary to insist on the fact that illumination is as important as color to end the darkness.

As, Pep Feliu points out: "when there is no natural light the priority is to sectorize electrical lighting". In addition, it is clear that both windows and curtains play a key role in letting in modulating natural light. All this, without forgetting that the furniture decorates the room, thus also influencing our perception.

To sum up, the action of painting very well perfrmed plus a careful task of decoration and interior design can transform the appearance of any room. To go even further you can know and ask about Home Staging.

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