Interior Painting Projects for the Holidays: 4 Important Tips

After the Pandemic ruined most of America’s plans last year, we are all looking forward to celebrating the holidays together with friends and family in person this year. Although we are enjoying the Fall weather and the start of football season, you can never start planning for these special holiday parties too early. Why not knock out some holiday preparation now by starting an interior painting project that will have your walls popping with colour and ready to be decorated with holiday cheer?

Here are four tips that will help you plan your holiday interior painting project:

1. Where to Start?

Do you have specific rooms that are in need of a paint refresher? Or are you only concerned about the rooms where guests will be during celebrations? Or do you need a guest room prepared and painted for your extended family’s holiday stay? Do you have walls that will require repairing prior to painting?

These are just a few ideas that can determine where & what exactly your painting project needs to entail. The professionals suggest doing a walk through your home with pen and paper to take notes on what you decide. Once completed, you can share these notes with the professionals to explain your home’s painting needs. This is a quick way to provide guidelines for the painters. It also allows them to provide you with a more precise timeline and cost estimate of your project.

2. Painting more than the walls

Usually, the kitchen becomes a gathering center during the holidays even after all the guests arrive. If you have a bunch of squatters who like to chat around your kitchen island, you may want to give your cabinets a refresher with new paint in addition to, or rather than your walls. Newly painted cabinets can make your kitchen pop with colour. They can even be a bigger focal point than kitchen walls usually.

Or does your crown molding and built in shelves need brightening? Holiday decorations can highlight your old chipped door frames and molding. There are a lot more interior surfaces you can paint to give your home a holiday refreshed look. So remember to look beyond your walls when planning your project.

3. Your colour palette?

Are you looking to refresh your present colour scheme? Or how about totally new hues on your walls? When painting your home’s interior, each room’s colour should flow into the next. All of your home’s walls certainly do not have to be the same shade. However, the interior colours should at least follow the same tone or a matching scheme. This is a great time to consult with the professionals. They can assist you in choosing the appropriate colour scheme that you will love and your guests will envy during their holiday visit.

4. A few more suggestions

When planning an interior painting project around holiday time, it can be difficult not to match your colour palette with all your holiday decor. However, remember that your home’s walls will remain that colour long after the holiday season is finished, the decorations have been taken down and stored in your attic.

Also, when deciding which rooms to paint, ask yourself where does your family actually stay during visiting time? Do you play board games in the den until late at night? Or does everyone gravitate to the kitchen even when food is not being prepared? Do you even use your formal dining room or do you all eat surrounding the TV in the living room watching holiday movies or sports?

These questions provide some insight to guide you to which rooms or features require a face lift.

These are only a few considerations to consider when planning your interior painting project with the professionals. When you hire and plan with great professionals like Certapro, your holiday painting project can be no holiday stress at all.

Start today! Call your Certapro Painters for an estimate!