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Whether you’re selling your home or simply want to beautify its facade, the exterior paint color you choose can actually boost resale value (or they can make your house look cheap, eek!).
There are five types of paint finishes. Here's how to choose the right one for your room.
"It’s vital for any paint project to choose the correct interior or exterior paint formulated for the job for proper adhesion," says Krystal Mindeck, product director of paint, at Valspar.
Paint is a material or mixture that, when applied to a solid material and allowed to dry, adds a film-like layer. As art, this is used to create an image or images known as a painting. Paint can be made in many colors and types. Most paints are either oil-based or water-based, and each has distinct characteristics.
Exterior latex house paints may also be a co-polymer blend, but the best exterior water-based paints are 100% acrylic, because of its elasticity and other factors. Vinyl, however, costs half of what 100% acrylic resins cost, and polyvinyl acetate (PVA) is even cheaper, so paint companies make many different combinations of them to match the market.
Some primers can be tinted to match more closely with the color of the finishing paint. If the finishing paint is a deep color, tinting the primer can reduce the number of layers of finishing paint that are necessary for good uniformity across the painted surface. Primers are also used to hide joints and seams to give a finished look.
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