
Choosing the exterior paint for your home is no easy task. There are many things you have to take into consideration such as the age of your home, its style and architecture, your personal tastes, and the requirements of your neighborhood. Color consultations with an Authentic Home interior designer can be invaluable in choosing the right color and type to use. Not only do you gain from the extensive experience in the design industry, they can open your eye to options that you may not have otherwise considered. Here are just a few tips for choosing the right paint for your home. Authentic Home has offered Interior and Exterior paints for years in Seattle and has just released an incredible new exterior line and offers a Lifetime Guarantee on it.
Seattle is considered the most environmentally friendly city in the United States. As such, making sure the exterior paint you use on your home will impact the Earth the least will be of the utmost importance. In your Authentic Home color consultations with your designer, be sure to mention that you want to use environmentally friendly paint on your home. They will be able to source paints that will protect both your home and the environment. In addition, they will be able to find painters who run their businesses in an eco-friendly manner so you won’t have to worry about funding polluters. Authentic Home offers an exterior paint line that is rated low in VOC’s and is considered to be very friendly to the environment.
When choosing exterior paint for your home, you’ll need to figure out how many colors you want to use. Some homeowners will have a main color and then paint accent pieces and trim a different color as highlights. If this sounds like something you want to do then you’ll want to try and work out compatible colors to use. Color consultations with an Authentic Home interior decorator can help you determine your style and base your color selections off that. For example, people who like traditional décor may choose yellow paint with white trim while folks who are more modern may look at brown paint with green trim.
Lastly, the exterior paint job of your home should be handled by true professionals. Painting is something most people can’t afford to have done more than once per decade so you want to make sure it is done right. After all, you are going to have to come home to it every day so your Authentic Home designer will hire professionals who know what they are doing and have worked with before. The outside of your home is the first thing people see when they visit you. Work with Authentic Home to ensure that you create an exterior that reflects your style and welcome visitors.
It’s not often you will find an Interior Designer who carries their own line of paint. We have the support people necessary to make sure we stay on top of industry standards and offer the very best paint available. Use our expertise to create your own Authentic Home!
Authentic Home exterior paint has a lifetime warranty and is a low VOC, very high premium paint formulated for the Great Northwest. You would be hard pressed to find a comparable paint at any price. This is a terrific way to protect your Authentic Home.
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—Kathy Banak, Founder of Authentic Home, Seattle, Washington