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The Practical Website Of Painting And Wallpapering

Painting window sash is not particularly difficult, but it does require patience. Do it carefully. Figure shows the recommended sequence to follow when painting windows.

Finish the job of painting a room by painting doors and door frames, if you desire them to be painted. Again, the task is simplified by following a correct sequence, which is provided in the accompanying chart.

Choosing Color

Paint can be very much more than a protective surface covering

The color you paint your house inside or out is a matter of personal choice. If you desire yellow polka dot walls on a purple background, that's your business. You're the one who has to live with it. However, have you ever stopped to wonder why some color combinations look more pleasing to you than others? For example, I know that when a professional decorator selects colors for a particular room, that room always seems more attractive to me than when a layman selects the colors. Yet, it doesn't have to be this way, because you can employ the same principles of color selection that a decorator uses. Before getting to this, though, let's discuss some of the technical principles regarding color.

Color (or hue) is what the eye sees when light reflects from a surface. The surface itself doesn't have color, but it absorbs some rays emitted by the sun and reflects other rays. The rays which are reflected are the ones that you see.

The basis of all color, then, is sunlight which consists of six colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. These intermingle with each other to make an infinite number of combinations.

THE COLOR WHEEL

In determining which color scheme is the one most pleasing for a particular room or for the outside of the house, decorators employ what they call the color wheel. This consists of twelve colors: the six sunlight colors and six others made by mixing the six sunlight colors.