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You bought the good quality paint, let your sweat flow in the home painting yet the result is totally unexpected. No fine touch still as yet; color is flowing down leaving marks behind or flaks appeared soon after home painting. How come that all your hard efforts went into drain. You might have analyzed by now that what went wrong. Yes you are right, culprit lies down there. Your surface was not prepared and you want all out in home painting endeavor without thinking twice. What if you had known in advance that further actions would be not be fruitful as you were not following the basic rules.

Okay, Lets clear the matter here. There might be tough unwanted stains. There could be the case when either the plaster was not done in the proper shape in case of fresh wall or the layer beneath did not let upper surface to settle in strongly. The answer to the problem is Primer coating. Let’s understand the application and importance of the primer in the home painting.

Primer are of three kinds:

* Alkyd – Oil base
* Acrylic – Latex
* Tinted Shellac

The basic function of the primer is to prepare the unprepared surface. All the craters, bad surfaces are filled in by the primer. Application of primer is intended to make surface solid and even. If you are on mission to do dark colored home painting then primer can be tinted. This reduces the paint consumption by the fresh surface as new wall guzzle lot of paint. This also lessens the chance of mismatched surfaces. Make sure that you choose the right primer for the kind of surface you have. Any primer will not do. The right kind of primer will increase the life of your painted walls may be as well up to 10 years.

o Oil based primer is good for the surfaces that is about to be painted with oil based paint. This primer is universal with all kind of oil based painting. This kind of home painting is highly smooth in touch.
o Latex Primer is used for the surfaces that are badly prepared. Latex Primer fill in the craters and binds the paint and surface strongly. These primer resist cracking, peeling, and blistering of the surface and are very easy to maintain. One can wash them easily with soap and water.
o Tinted Shellac is used for the surfaces that have already some other paints on them. This hides the surfaces beneath and let new layer of the paint settle down. This the most powerful primer to seal those stains on the surfaces which are hard to mend for example Smoke stains, or nicotine stains. While other primer let the stains come up but this primer seals the fate of stains then and there.

For more classified information on Primer and their uses you can access the websites of major paint manufacturers, many of home have entire sections that assist in choosing the right primers for your home painting needs.

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Many of us dream of living in big houses buy owing to various factors we end up living in small homes for ages. However, now a proper home painting selection can make your small rooms look larger. Apart from banishing the useless clutter from your small rooms, some color paining tips help giving an impression of vastness even to a small room. You don’t necessarily need to remodel or renovate your home with construction to make it look larger, home painting can do wonders alone.

Rule for Using Lighter Colors

Most of us are aware of the fact that choosing lighter colors tends to give a feeling of largeness, yet not many of us try this tip while home painting. So, we are to share with you rule for using lighter colors to give a smaller room an impression of a larger room.

* If you use pale light colors like lilacs, blues and greens, your small room will look larger visually, as these colors give a feeling of vastness and spaciousness.

* Another rule of home painting to make small rooms look larger is to paint the moldings with a tone lighter than the one you have applied on the walls. This helps in producing an effect of keeping darker objects farther and lighter objects closer.

Rule for Using Patterns

Apart from using lighter colors, using patterns helps in visually increasing the space of your small rooms. Though many people believe one should avoid using patterns in small rooms, but using patterns in deed help producing an effect of vastness in small rooms.
* When doing home painting, try using patterns like vertical stripes that tend to make small rooms taller. You can also try horizontal stripes to make your room longer.
* Avoid using small dense patterns that on the contrary make a small room look even smaller.

Rule for Hiding Unwanted Things
If you feel most of the spaces of your small room has been occupied by unwanted things, then home painting allows you to hide that too.
* Try using the magic of dark colors to hide some unwanted things in your home. Be it the doors, vents or metalwork, you can hide them all with dark color shades.

Rule for Highlighting Architectural Features

Another rule to make small rooms look larger is to highlight the architectural features. If you don’t know how to do that, then read on to know more about it.
* If you have arches and moldings in your home, then try painting them in contrast colors. In other words, paint the architectural features with contrasting colors from the ones that you have applied to the walls.

So, now you know what all can be done in home painting to give an illusion of a larger room to a smaller room. All the features including, ceilings, domes, doors and walls can be painted accordingly to give a vast impression with the above-mentioned home painting tips.

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