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As we move past 2020, the interior and exterior colors of the home have proven to be more important for our well-being than ever before. They need to transform a home into a sanctuary and an oasis, inside and out.

So be adventurous with your choices. If you work from home, you have free reign to customize this environment and the phycological effects your color choices bring. The interior color trends for 2021 are taking us into a Renaissance.

Freshen up your walls and stair handrails!

The paint on your walls is starting to chip. The bright red color you loved so much has now faded to a lighter one. It sounds like it’s time to head to the hardware store to pick up the things you need for a new paint job.

The problem is that you stay so busy with work you’re not sure if you’ll be able to find the time. How long does it take to paint a room?

Custom Commercial Painting

Is it time for you to repaint your property with a fresh, eye-catching color scheme? Do you need help from reputable commercial painting services that you can trust?

Quality paint can protect the interior and exterior surfaces of your property, hide stains, and improve indoor air quality. It may even help to boost the overall value of your property.

Set the tone for elegance in your interior panting job.

Although painting a room or a wall here and there is a task you know you can tackle yourself, painting the entire interior of a home is a lot of work. You'll need the correct tools for painting and proper skills to ensure the final coat of paint comes out flawless.

When the painting project becomes too overwhelming to handle yourself, that's when it's time to contact a professional interior painting service. Professional painters know how to complete the project, getting it done right the first time. Before you hire a professional painting service, you'll need to make sure you're selecting a service that's trustworthy and reputable. 

Choosing colors that flow well with the roof color, brick color and surrounding nature.

Is your house in need of some new exterior paint? After some time, exterior paint becomes dull, faded, or chipped due to different weather elements. Even if your home's exterior paint is still in great condition, it might just be time to switch things up!

How will you choose the right exterior paint colors for your home, though? With so many different wonderful colors to choose from, finding the right fit might become challenging. Will you go with a clean and simple white?

We have all been spending a lot of time in and at our homes since the Pandemic started at the beginning of 2020. Since that time, its been eye-opening what things about our house we want to change and improve.  Recently redfin.com asked us to be a part of their blog for suggestions on how Painting can Improve the Exterior of Your Home.  They have featured us in their blog as a contributor so that folks could understand the primary reasons to take care of the exterior of their home.

While we sit outside on our patios or inside doing our daily life at home or even working from home, there are so many things to do and we notice all the things that could be improved. 

Are you scrolling your social media pages, dreaming of a living room like in the squares? Are you studying those carefully curated spaces, trying to decide on a new look for your living room?

Now that you've decided your living room is ready for a makeover, the first step might be to decide on a color scheme for your space. 

Featured Color: Sw 6496 Oceanside

Several years ago, you made one of the biggest purchases of your life, a house. When you bought it, it was the best-looking home on the street. Today, your home’s once immaculate exterior consists of chipping and peeling paint.

Chipping and peeling paint doesn’t only look bad, it’s bad for your home. It allows moisture, dirt, and sunlight to sneak in the cracks and damage the siding beneath.

Sherwin Williams Color of the Year 2020

We talked previously in the year about Behr's Color of the Year 2020 and now its Sherwin Williams!  Naval SW 6244 is a beautiful color, plain and simple.  It has such a wide range of depth and simplicity and is dark and mysterious while being beautiful and bold.  This is one of my favorite Colors of the Year, in fact, it has been the color of my own personal house for 3 years.  We have helped clients come to the decision to use Naval on many occasions because of how beautiful it is.  

Color Trends 

The idea of color and how it trends really is amazing.  I believe its a culmination of Social Media posts from Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and much more.  I like to think of it as a wildfire.  It starts somewhere and the wind blows and boom, full-blown trend.  We have been watching the trends for years and watching the ebb and flow starting with one color and then as that fades another takes its place and sometimes eventually colors come back and combos come back. Color does things for peoples emotional well-being and in this time of uncertainty, painting your walls can provide a change in scene and a change in emotional state.  

Black Cabinets & White Quartz Countertops

TRENDING ALERT!

The Johnson project was awesome. The family is a great client and adventurous with their trending choices! We loved working with them.  

As we have rolled into 2020 we have seen more and more customers moving to the lighter side of color!  Ultra Whites are the latest trending colors with our clients in Colorado.  

For so many years, the trend was to have an all-over color with wall accents to pop throughout the house or in a specific room, but now the trend is seeming to go the other way.  Wall accents are no longer in trend!  In fact grays are slowly going away and leaving room for fresh, clean white walls and white ceilings as well as trim and doors.  

On this 50th anniversary of Earth Day, we make a commitment to you, and the planet, that we will strive to reduce our footprint, recycle materials, reduce waste and contribute to our beautiful planet in a positive way.

In the construction business, there can be a lot of waste, with plastic, trash from prep materials etc.  As a company we have always, not just around Earth Day, but always cared for our environment and taken precautions whenever possible to use paint that has low or no VOC (volatile organic compounds), and recycle the paper that protects the floors or the plastic that protects the fixtures and furniture.  

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After announcing the 2020 Color of the Year, Behr also released their 2020 Color Trends palette featuring softer colors that were inspired by the natural elements, Earth, Wind, Water, Fire & Sky. These colors are meant to invoke the feelings of travel and adventure through nature.

Bringing these colors into your home will inspire and bring invigorated life into any room. If you are ready to start exploring these, or any other color design options for the interior or exterior of your home for your next paint job, we can help.  Click to schedule a Free Color Consultation

Behr has released their Color of the Year: Back to Nature.  They are hailing this color as "calm, gracious, and balanced".  

As we have been watching the trends happen both from Paint Manufacturers like Behr and Sherwin Williams and Benjamin Moore and watching trends from our customers, it seems that the latest color trends are leaning towards the lighter shades.  

What is a Paint Sheen and Why Does it Matter?

Paint comes in a variety of sheens:

Wow, so you just bought a new house and its beautiful and you're super excited!  There's just a couple things you need to do before you move in, and one question you have is, Should I Paint Before I move In?

We would recommend it, for sure!  

Okay, All the big guns come out with their predictions of the Color of the Year and this year, Behr is coming out with theirs: Blueprint S470-5.  It's similar to the Color of the Year last year from Sherwin Williams, which was Oceanside, but the color sets are very popular which ever company you choose to use.  

We would love some feedback from the public as to what they think about the Behr Color of the Year.  If you would like to leave your comments below, we would love the feedback.  

Every year, Sherwin Williams names their color of the year.  It's inspired by different components, different ideas and mostly does its best to inspire people to be BOLD and DARING.  

This year, Sherwin Williams chose "Oceanside" (SW 6496)!

Selling a home is a big deal, it's one of the biggest, if not the biggest purchases you've made in your lifetime and when you want to sell, you want to maximize what you can get for it.  Take it from us, a bi-partisan player in the real estate market.  In our experience over the last 13 years of business, we have experienced a higher and faster percentage of sale after realtors have used H3 Paint to come in a help out with some color and fresh wall paint.  It applies to both interior and exterior color changes.

In this latest example, Bryan Hubbell, Exit One Realty, requested that we provide his client with a free no hassle estimate to paint their home, which is for sale. After providing the quote and viewing the home, we were informed that the biggest draw back for potential buyers was the color of the exterior.  Being a painting company, we totally understand this dilemma.  Certain paint colors can be off putting to some and create an inability to look past it, serving as a blockage to being able to move forward with viewing something that otherwise might have been a close to perfect home.