How to Choose Professional Painters for House Painting in Salt Lake City, UT
A fresh coat of paint does more than change a color. It protects your property, enhances your home’s curb appeal, and transforms the way you experience your space every day. Professional house painting also plays a crucial role in enhancing and protecting your home’s exterior, improving durability and safeguarding it from the elements. The challenge […]
How Your Commercial Interior Affects Customers, and When It’s Time to Repaint
When customers walk into your space, they take in the walls before they look at anything you’re selling. But the effect paint has on customers isn’t about finding one magic color. Research suggests color does shape first impressions, and the condition of the walls matters at least as much. What Research Says About Color in […]
Eco-Friendly Cabinet Painting: Low-VOC Options That Actually Hold Up
The most environmentally friendly kitchen cabinets are usually the ones you already have. Refinishing keeps solid cabinet boxes and doors out of the landfill and avoids manufacturing and shipping a new set. The rest is choosing a coating that’s low in VOCs but still tough enough for a kitchen, and dealing with leftovers responsibly. Why […]
How to Hire a Painting Contractor in Utah: 9 Things to Check First
Most bad painting experiences trace back to the hiring stage: an unlicensed crew, a one-line quote, a warranty that only ever existed in conversation. Checking a contractor properly takes about fifteen minutes. Here’s what to look at, including the Utah-specific protections most hiring guides leave out. Check Where to verify it Red flag License Utah […]
DIY vs. Hiring a Pro to Paint Your House Exterior: An Honest Comparison
We paint houses for a living, so you’d expect us to say “hire a pro.” But some exterior jobs are perfectly reasonable to do yourself, and some go wrong in ways that end up costing more than hiring would have. Here’s an honest comparison. DIY vs. Professional at a Glance Factor DIY Professional What you […]
Why Exterior Paint Fades, and How to Make It Last Longer in Utah
Paint fades for two reasons. Sunlight breaks down the pigments that give it color, and it breaks down the binder that holds those pigments on the wall. How fast that happens depends on the color you chose, the quality of the paint and how much sun the wall gets. In Utah, that last part counts […]
How to Choose Exterior Paint Colors: A 6-Step Process for Utah Homes
Most color advice tells you which colors are popular. This guide is about how to decide, so the colors you choose suit your house, survive Utah’s sun and get through your HOA without a second round. If you’d like specific colors that have held up well on Utah homes, see our list of exterior paint […]
Types of Interior Paint: Which Paint to Use Where
Choosing interior paint comes down to two decisions. The first is what the paint is made of, which decides how hard it dries, whether it yellows and what it will stick to. The second is how shiny it is. This guide covers the first. For the second, see our paint sheen guide. The Main Types […]
How to Clean and Maintain Painted Walls So Your Paint Lasts
Washing a painted wall is easy to get wrong. Scrub too hard on the wrong finish and you’ll leave a shiny patch that’s more noticeable than the mark you were trying to remove. The right approach depends mostly on one thing: how glossy your paint is. Start With Your Paint’s Sheen Sheen How washable How […]
7 Affordable Ways to Update an Outdated Home (Without Remodeling)
Most homes don’t look dated because of their layout. They look dated because of details: honey oak trim, tan walls, a faucet that’s lost its finish, one dim ceiling fixture trying to light a whole room. Nearly all of that is fixable without a remodel, and most of it comes down to paint. Here are […]