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A new coat of paint can keep your house looking new and updated. If you haven’t given your interior a refresh in a while, you might be wondering if it’s really time to repaint. Here are some tips to help you determine when it’s time for a new coat for the interior walls of your home.

How to Determine When It’s Time to Paint Your Walls

Keep an Eye on the Quality

The best way to tell if your interior walls could use a new coat of paint is to do a simple visual inspection. Make sure they’re clean, and then look for areas where the paint looks faded or shows cracks or other imperfections. If you use a high-quality paint, it should be able to last for up to ten years, but some other factors can sometimes shorten that lifespan.

Paint More Often for High-Traffic Areas

paintOne of those factors is how much traffic goes through that particular space. Hallways, for example, normally need to be painted more often than living rooms because they see a lot of traffic and you might have people brushing up against the walls. Kitchens and bathrooms where there’s a lot of messes can also require more frequent paint jobs, sometimes as frequently as every two years.

Consider Design Changes

Of course, another reason to paint your interior walls is if you want a color or design change. Some homeowners like to do this every few years, and design trends tend to change constantly. So if you like to change up the actual look of your home rather than just adding an identical coat of paint to your existing wall, that could be another reason to paint more often. However, this is up to each homeowner’s personal preference.

 

Montgomery’s Building Supplies in Warsaw, NY, offers a variety of high quality paint and paint supplies to help you keep your home looking great. The hardware store also sells a variety of other building supplies so you can purchase everything you need for your home renovation projects in one place. Contact the company online or call (585) 786-2510 for more information.

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