Interior Painting St. Louis: 5 Things to Consider When Choosing Paint

Interior Painting St. Louis: 5 Things to Consider When Choosing Paint

Updating your home’s interior in St. Louis is an integral part of maintaining its appeal and value, but most homeowners don’t know where to begin.

Considering your home has multiple walls throughout the interior, a fresh coat of paint can add enormous style, texture, and value.

Choosing paint can be overwhelming for most homeowners. Thankfully, selecting new interior paint does not have to be stressful or time-consuming.

Using these tips and the help of your painting contractor, you can find the best paint for your home’s interior.

Tips for choosing your interior paint

Color

Choosing your paint color is usually the first concern of many homeowners when it comes to refreshing the walls.

The best color depends on your tastes and trends, but also on the effect you want to create with your painting. You could make your space feel tall, warm, or intimate. The function of that particular space or room also matters. 

Finish

Once you select the paint color, you will need to choose a type of finish.

It is important to note that some finishes are not recommended for certain rooms in your house.

Use the following information to determine which finish is right for your space.

• Gloss: If you are painting a kitchen or bathroom, opt for a paint with a glossy finish. The glossy finish allows you to wipe away moisture and food splatters, which is beneficial for keeping the walls of your kitchen and bathroom clean. Semi-gloss or high-gloss are also recommended in high-traffic areas of your house, such as foyers, hallways, or mudrooms.

• Satin: A satin finish is easy to clean but lacks the shiny finish that is common with semi-gloss and high-gloss paints. Most people compare a satin finish with the look of velvet. Consider satin in your living and dining rooms.

• Eggshell: If you want an affordable option that looks great, choose an eggshell paint finish. Unfortunately, eggshell finishes will show marks, smudges, and other imperfections. Avoid using eggshell paint in your kitchen, bathroom, bedrooms, and family rooms, but it will be suitable for a formal area that does not see much use.

The Substrate

Read the label carefully when you buy paint, or better yet, ask your questions to a specialized professional before choosing paint for your type of substrate. 

The State of the Surface

If the surface is damaged or is not optimal for the application of paint, for example, if it has been yellowed by cigarette smoke, it must be washed or repaired first.

In some cases, the application of a primer may be necessary. The holes should be sealed with plaster before going ahead with the paint. 

Most of the time, for interior surfaces, the primer will not be needed at all. For a damaged or poorly bonded surface, a 100% acrylic paint will be preferred over latex paint.

Occupant health

If the building you are planning to refresh is occupied by children, babies, the elderly, pregnant women, or people with respiratory problems such as asthma, choose non-VOC products. 

VOCs in chemicals can be released to the atmosphere several weeks after they are applied to a surface. As a general rule, products that emit a strong odor are harmful to your lungs.

At Selah Painting, we help you choose the best type of paint and color for your project at no extra cost.

We also take the proper steps to ensure that your interior lasts as long as possible.

There are unique steps and processes that we take, which most other painting contractors don’t want to take the time to perform. 

We would love the opportunity to be your go-to interior painter in St. Louis, MO. Call us at 314-582-5272 to book a FREE estimate, and let us help you enhance the interior of your home so you can focus on other things.