Welcome to Painting

How to Paint a House

If your house needs painting, you know how expensive it can be. Even if you get three quotes from competing painter, you may find it is cost prohibitive to hire someone to paint your house. So why not do it yourself? You will only need a ladder, some tarps, and paint and brushes. You will save potentially thousands on dollars in labor in painting your house. So where do you start?

Safety for House Painters

Safety is a major concern that needs to be dealt with adequately when performing house painting as there is a certain degree of incidental risk involved with the process of painting a house. One could fall off the ladder or stage and other risks involved include keeping the safety of children uppermost in mind. Painting materials may be extremely poisonous and therefore one cannot be too careful in using and storing these items.

Health of a person is another cause for concern and paint can present a health hazard, if used improperly. In addition, some of the materials used in house painting may be highly inflammable and so, should be kept away from open flames. Also, electricity is an area which should be kept secure from washing and if one is removing wall plates then one should take care to not touch into the electrical box. Finally, use gloves and goggles while house painting.

Choosing the Correct Paint

It is not only the color of the paint but also type of paint as well as gloss factor that need to be taken into consideration when house painting. Latex as well as oil base are most commonly used terms when house painting. However, many brands of latex may be non-latex or artificial-latex but it is not very bad as there are continuous improvements being made in synthetic materials that perform just like latex. In addition, one may need to consider overall appearance, ease of use and serviceability when selecting the gloss.

House painting includes procedures for the interiors, the exteriors as well as techniques for painting paneled doors, accessing a stairwell and sheetrock repairs. You may have to prepare before undertaking the actual painting and for this one may need to get a good idea about what the home painting interior process actually involves.

Having assessed the situation, one would require getting the right materials for the house painting work. This would include sandpaper, latex caulk, spackling compound and masking tape to name a few items necessary for the interior work.

Before beginning the house painting work, one should move as much furniture as possible to another room and for large and difficult to move pieces of furniture, one may move them to the center of the room and cover with plastic drop cloths. Also, one should take down pictures as well as curtains and cover the floors with drop cloths.

Painting your house or just painting a room or two can give you an instant change in your home décor and will make you feel better about your house. Couple that with saving a lot of money by doing it yourself, house painting is something that should be considered by everyone.

Painting captures State House at night (The State)

Columbia artist Doug Shealey, best known for his renderings of iconic sports venues in the Southeast, is nearly finished with a painting he believes could be his “best yet.” His new project, a nighttime scene of the State House, is a departure from his meticulous paintings of USC’s Williams-Brice Stadium, Clemson’s “Death Valley” and the Darlington Raceway. “I have been wanting to do this ...

Family finds old painting will bring big money (7 News Boston)

DENNIS, Mass. -- A painting owned for generations by a Cape Cod family who had no idea what the piece was worth could fetch up to $500,000 at auction.

Family finds old painting will bring big money (Boston Herald)

DENNIS - A painting owned for generations by a Cape Cod family who had no idea what the piece was worth could fetch up to $500,000 at auction. The painting from the 1860s...

Sunset painting golden for Cape owners (Cape Cod Times)

A painting that hung innocuously on a Cape family's walls for generations is set to be auctioned off by Eldred's next week for as much as $500,000.

Leonard House (Picayune-Times)

Mr. Leonard Everette House, 89, of Prescott, passed away Sunday, July 13, 2008, in Little Rock, Ark. He was born to Joseph W. and Tennie Raines House in Prescott, Ark., on November 6, 1918. He was a local farmer, meat-cutter and meat-market manager from the former Taylor Brothers in Prescott and Austin Capps, I.G.A, in Gurdon.