Paint Your Home with these Tips & Trends 

We just can’t help it. We love changing up our home with different decor each season, but sometimes all we see are small impacts. Are you like us and looking to make a bigger impact on your home to bring new life back into it? A few coats of our favourite paint colours has done wonders, and with the chic and stylish colours on trends for 2015, we are obsessed with painting just about anything from walls to even furniture and everything in between.

Rather than picking up decor pieces and extra furniture to change a space, paint can transform almost anything on virtually any budget to help make things look updated and fresh. Whether you’re updating old furniture, creating the perfect entrance to a front door, refinishing time-worn hardwood floors or attempting any paint DIY, we have the tips to get the paint job done right and a few ideas for what colours and styles we are loving!

First things first. If you rather paint yourself instead of hiring help, we totally encourage it! It can be time consuming, but such a payoff when you see the end results. As long as you stick to these steps below when painting, it will be a success!

Step 1

Clean walls.
Remove dust, dirt, and grease spots (which can ruin a smooth finish) with water, a little mild dishwashing detergent, and a cellulose sponge. Rinse walls with clean water to remove the soap residue.

Step 2

Tape the trim, window, and doorframes
Be sure to use painter’s blue tape, which can be applied up to a week ahead. Remove tape immediately after painting, before the wall dries, so you don’t peel off any paint with it.

Step 3

Prime the walls
It’s a common myth that walls that have been painted many times don’t need to be primed. In fact, primer helps maximize the sheen and coverage of paint and gives the finish coat a more uniform appearance.

Step 4

Brush where you can’t roll
Brush on paint around trim and in the corners of walls, where your roller can’t reach, with a two-inch angled brush. Extend out two to three inches from windows, doors, and moldings.

Step 5

Use the W technique
For efficiency, start in the corner of a wall and roll on a three-by-three-foot W pattern, then fill it in without lifting the roller. Continue in sections until you’re finished. Paint one wall at a time.

Step 6

Paint the tri
When the walls are completely dry, tape where the trim meets the wall. Paint the moldings and the door and window frames with a two-inch angled brush.

Just 6 simple steps and you’ve got walls, doors, furniture and more looking  sharp without any common paint mistakes. Now that you’ve practice but not sure what to commit to when painting, here are some of our favourite paint trends to try with colours we are totally smitten over:

GO Bold

We advise to gold bold. It may seem like a big commitment, but let us assure you, it makes a huge impact. Deep royal colours against light furniture really makes a space look modern and inviting. This look with a teal wall in the living room looks chic and stylish without it looking overpowering, so we say go bold!

Welcome Door

To help your home make its best first impression, the front door should set the stage for the style that unfolds inside. That means, have fun with your front door and have it set the tone for what visitors can expect inside. We like the idea of a vibrant red or yellow front door, but if you opt for something a little more subdued, you can’t go wrong with this soft and natural blue hue! 

Gallery Wall

When creating a gallery wall with images taking up the space of the wall, that doesn’t mean you can’t make it pop with colour too! Instead of sticking to a plain white wall behind those pictures, paint that wall alone a simple but chic shade like this grey/taupe shade that makes the white frames of the pictures stand out!

Furniture DIY

We love DIY furniture – especially when the piece is inexpensive from IKEA and once the DIY is done, the piece looks like a million bucks! Paint isn’t just for walls after all, so update your funriture with a few coats of your favourite paint. This DIY below was transformed with just a few new handles and a coat of vibrant paint and voila! Someting new and original!

Accent Wall

An accent wall is where you can really have fun. Whether it’s for the bedroom, baby’s room or dining area, there are countless ways you can have a little fun with paint to accentuate a wall in your home. A design or print can really make a large impact, so the skies the limit!

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