How To Paint The Home When Money Is Tight
With today's difficult economy it has become harder to maintain the appearance of your home. The truth is that you can paint the exterior and interior of your home on a tight budget while increasing not only the value of your home but its visual standing in your community. A freshly painted home always stands out and garners the attention of others. For a few dollars you will be the talk of the subdivision and feel like you are living in an entirely different home. Take a few moments to learn how to do this and feel proud of yourself when you pull in the driveway and look at your freshly painted home.
Planning the job is important as you probably will not be able to do the whole job in one weekend. Make a budget of how much you can spend and start coming up with ideas to get as much done as cheaply and quickly as possible. Shop around for paint and find quality but lower cost paints. Look at colors and if you have to, ask if the cheaper brand can be mixed to create a more expensive color you may have liked. Most places can do this as the store brands often mimic the colors of the more expensive paints.
This is a must as painting supplies tend to eat up most of your costs and the newer supplies do not last as long as the older ones that were purchased years ago. Ask parents, friends and family if they have brushes and pans laying around that you can use. Odds are that they do and they will be happy to let you borrow them. This is where you save a few dollars as mentioned. Brushes are simply not durable any longer and do not provide a good coat compared to those of the past so you are saving money and time by borrowing.
You do not need to hire people to paint for you. In most cases you can do this yourself unless you are afraid of heights. You can easily have a painting party if this is the case and invite friends and family over to help. Cook some hamburgers and hot dogs and you will surely have a few people volunteer to help. If you can paint by yourself then by all means do so but a quick and cheap cookout painting party is another option if you need help. It beats spending twenty dollars an hour for a pro to do it.
Don't go crazy with colors that cannot be painted over at a later date without heavy primers. Neutral or earth tone colors are simple to cover and should be what you focus on as you do not want to spend a fortune on Killz in the future to cover some exotic color and these shades are often a bit cheaper.
The exterior and interior of your home can be painted on a tight budget if you just use your head. Make a budget and stick to it while remembering to keep a bit extra for any additional paint or supplies you may need. Keep your friends and families in mind to assist with the work and supplies and you will have the home looking brand new in no time at all.
