How to paint furniture
Choice of coatings, colours, furniture … is all ways to give more space to your home. With these decorative tips, win a few square meters without pushing the walls! The golden rule is to use light colours. They contribute significantly to visually enlarge a room, especially as it is dark. If your room is too narrow, opt for […]
Volatile Organic Compounds
Originally house paints used lead as a binder in the actual paint formulation. Well, we now know that lead is poisonous and of course lead was removed from house paint. However as technology evolved different substances were used in place of lead and with the introduction of water based paints more chemicals and substances were […]
The health hazards of using house paint
One of the biggest break throughs in house paint was the invention of water based paints. They have a huge number of benefits over spirit or oil based paints, the most obvious being that you are able to use water in the clean up process. Water based paints dry far more quickly than oil based […]
Painting your house DIY
Need to paint your house on your own to provide it a great go of freshness without breaking the financial institution? Well good for you! But beware of rainfall. Intending to repaint also swiftly you might make blunders and regret it! Below are 10 errors to stay away from to make sure that your site […]
Using colour to change the size of a room
If you redo a room, even before thinking about painting and decoration (some colours expand a room, see next page), ask yourself the coating. Avoid first carpet that tarnishes, “close” visually walls and thus narrows the room. So opt for a clear coat. If you redo the floor, be sure to ask the blades diagonal: […]
The best time for painting your house
It is usually around spring time that most people turn their attention to their home and the condition of the paint job on it. As spring time is the perfect time to get to work on painting your house as the weather is not too hot and most of the time it has stopped raining […]
How to get fast makeover results on your house
Painting a room is one of the fastest and easiest makeovers you can get, however there is more to than meets the eye, and if it is not done in a particular way then you can end up with a less than satisfactory result or even worse, resulting in the job having to be redone. […]
How to get the best results when painting
Most of us understand that the most convenient means to improve a space is with painting it. Repainting a room is the very first thing most home renovators do to immediately improve it’s appearance. Well there is something else you could do to improve a spaces look using paint and that is to select the […]
Tools used for commercial house painting
All about sandpaper, abrasive … Paints, varnishes and finishing require mostly a bottom (application area) perfectly smooth to produce the best effect. Whether wood, metal or masonry, a good sanding is essential. Carefully chosen, the abrasive must be used wisely, by hand on small or delicate surfaces, the machine on flat and slightly fragile large […]
Before you start your painting job
Before you jump into the site, a few golden rules to follow: – Even if your painting is indicated monolayer for a good result up to your expectations, count two coats of paint. – Lack of experience, we tends to overload the brush and thus consume more. See a little wider and round above the guidance. […]