Is it about time to put a new coat of paint on the walls? You might be deliberating about what the best color for your home is. Premier Group Contractors has a lot of experience with painting people’s walls. Therefore, we want to give a little advice to those of you who are struggling to pick a color. After all, we’ve all been there!

Consider Favorites

To start off, what are your favorite colors? Some people forego consideration of their favorite colors because they think they’ll be too bright or stand out too much. The truth is, there’s a good way to use almost any color for painting. Even if you like particularly bright colors, there’s a way you can incorporate that into your walls if you’d like to.

If you’re not really sure what your favorite colors are, or like too many to pick, narrowing them down is easier than it seems. Try thinking of things that make you happy. Do plants make you particularly joyful? Maybe you like spicy food? No matter what kind of thing you think of first, there’s a way to turn that into paint.

Plants could lead to a shade of earthy green or brown. You could even pick the color of your favorite flowers. Spicy food could mean a dark red or burnt orange. No matter what your favorite things are, you can pull a color from it. Then, whenever you see that color, you’ll remember the things it’s associated with. People tend to underestimate how powerful color association is. Take advantage of that!

How to Avoid ‘Too Bright’

If you like a particularly saturated color – in laymen’s terms, one considered very bright – here’s how to use it without overdoing it. There are multiple ways you can do this.

• Create a focus wall. A focus wall is one or, sometimes, two walls that you paint with a bright color. The other walls in the room are painted with a more neutral paint color that pairs well with the focus wall. For instance, if you want to use red paint, but don’t want to overwhelm the room with red, you can paint one wall red while painting the rest a nice cream color. If you want it a little darker, consider a light brown instead of cream.
• Use a less saturated base color and use your preferred color as an accent. Using the colors from the last example, that could mean painting all the walls with cream and then using shaped sponges to create red stamps on the walls. 
• If sponging isn’t your preferred design choice, you could also use taping. At, perhaps, a foot from the top of the wall, create a line of tape all the way around the room. If it’s important to you that it’s level, use a bubble level to ensure the tape is places correctly. Then, paint the section between the top of the wall and the tape. When the paint is completely dry, pull the tape off and you’ll have a neat line at the edge of your painted section. You can repeat this as far down the wall as you please, perhaps creating narrower and narrower strips. This will add that touch of red you’re looking for without flooding the room with it.

Hire Professionals

When it comes time to paint, it’s a lot easier said than done. If you don’t feel like committing to a day of long, hard, and thankless work, repainting your living room, or even more time for even more rooms, hire professionals. Because we at Premier Group Contractors work as a team and have years of experience with this kind of work, we make it look easy. Plus, we do a great job! Give us a call if you have a paint job that needs to be done in Toronto. We’re happy to help.

When it’s time for home improvement, costs can be intimidating. Some people try to cut down on costs by doing things themselves. The problem is, not everything is DIY material. Painting, while it may look better when done by a professional, can be done yourself. Replacing a sink could even be done yourself if you can find the know-how you need online. Flooring installation, however, should be handled by a professional. Here’s why:

Safety Concerns

When replacing flooring, there are a number of safety concerns that people don’t often realize exist. Tearing out old flooring means encountering splinters, old nails, staples, and a variety of other things. These can all cut you and leave you with a nasty infection. The last thing you want is your DIY flooring project getting stopped midway through because you have to go get stitches.

Complex Installation

Not only are there safety concerns, installing flooring isn’t as easy as you may believe. There are a large number of small slip-ups you can make that will ruin all of your progress. From damaging the subfloor to badly cut boards, being inexperienced has its downfalls. Therefore, you should leave flooring installation to professionals who have been at it for 15 years and counting

Manual Labor

While complexity and safety may not concern you, what you should also heavily consider is the manual labor. There’s a reason professionals charge what they do for installations like this. The work is hard and dirty. While many people gain joy from hard, manual labor, you should consider if it’s worth it to you personally. Would you rather appreciate the finished product without the backbreaking effort? If so, you know what to do.

Hiring Professionals

When you hire professionals, you secure a number of benefits. Not only do you guarantee your own safety, you guarantee a job well done. Plus, when there’s a whole team working on your floors, the job gets done much faster. Working by yourself can be a slow process and leave your home without proper flooring for days or weeks. When you have a team laying down flooring, it gets done efficiently, as fast as it can be done while still remaining top of the line quality.

Choosing Premier Group

When it’s time to choose a company you trust with your home, give us a call at Premier Group Contractors. We have over a decade in the industry building lasting value right into the homes of our clients. We want to provide you with excellent service that you won’t regret fitting into your budget. When our team of contractors has finished with your floors, we want you to be confident that you made the right choice letting this project fall into professional hands.