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| Top Tips to Painting Exterior Your Home Posted: 29 Nov 2015 08:59 AM PST Top Tips on How to Paint Outside Your HomeIf you are harboring some thoughts on painting the exterior finishes of your house then you better need to gain some insights on several techniques on how to paint outside. There are several exterior painting techniques that you have to learn because these methods can greatly help in correctly doing the painting job that is best suited on the kind of materials that you have in your house.  Home exterior painting and home exterior paint colors In that line, you need therefore to check the type of building materials on your house exterior. Some areas that need to be painted may be made of various types of materials such as wood, cement, brick, wrought iron, and steel just to name some. Knowing the type of surface areas that requires painting jobs can significantly help you choose the kind of paint that you need to use. Aside from that, you also need to check what parts of your house that require painting. Depending on your choice and preferences, some building parts should have different hues in order to create some accents for beautification purposes. Painting the entire exterior area with only one paint color will make it look monotonous and unattractive. It is best to have some color combinations for more impressive looks. Once you are done with the first two steps, your next move is to formulate your color plan. Choose the right color based on your preferred home theme. If your house design has a Tuscany style or English theme, then white is perfect in this case. For country homes, choose eco-friendly colors like green with moderate brown accents. Painting wood finishes is not much of a problem. Use paints for wooden materials in this case. But if you are doing repainting jobs on the exterior of your house, then the entire process is going to be more rigorous since you need to scrape off old fading paints. In this case, you can use sandpaper to peel off old paints. For wrought metals and old iron materials, they are more rigorous than woods since they have more intricate designs. Repainting them is even more strenuous since you have to scrape of rusted parts. However, there are tools available that will make it easier for you to get those rusts off. You can use a steel brush or steel brush-rollers in this case. This process is imperative and you must do this first prior to applying new paint.     For surface areas made of cement and bricks, you must first seal off the entire area using a masonry primer. This is important since these materials are generally porous. They have minute air gaps that need to be sealed off in order to produce an excellent quality finish that is durable. Hence, the whole area must be painted twice. The first coating uses the masonry primer, while the second coating uses masonry paints which can either be in glossy or non-glossy finishes. Always keep in mind these tips on how to paint outside your house; this will help make you paint the house right and just perfect. The post Top Tips to Painting Exterior Your Home appeared first on Design And Landscaping Ideas. |
| Posted: 28 Nov 2015 08:58 PM PST Preventing Children Stress with Some Pool PartyWhen children first come to school in kindergarten, seems they will lose their 'imagination' world. Since they couldn't play them self, speak them self around day, and less-time with a friend of imagination. Even our children will get new friends, but they generally hard to be settled with many new people around them. So, in period 1-3 months we will find our children feel hard to coming to schools again if we can't make them used to it.they actually want to back to their daily playing days before it. Psycologically, this is the golden period of the children to learn and knowing the real world, learning surrounding them beside parents and home, knowing many new people, and learn to interact with it. For children on that age, it will be hard to do since they are used only with parents and home. So, parents should know and consider at that time. Forcing our children to come to school isn's best way to do because they will hate you and hate school. It willl stress. If we have a swimming pool, and we and our childre rarely use it, it can be a solution. Remember when we bath our children, it seems funny funny for them right?. They like playing water and we will see their smile, this moment is so happy for us as parents. So, we can use it to make a 'party for them' when we realize that our children looks stressed. Yes, make a pool party for them at week end or holiday with their friend. This pool party ideas can change their preception about learning new people, new friend. Invite their friend to have a party in our garden or our swimming pool. Pool party is a party that held in surrrounding pool area and actually use pool as a main stage to play. And we can make some barbeque around the pool or something like that. And make many games in the pool to make it more fun. Because more wet is more fun . And these are few we can do for our children to have a pool party : – Prepare a medium swimming pool that have a garden around it, place for making food and eat etc – Invite your children's classmate and their parents to join – Make a good food, better your childrens favourites and their friends, so they will love you – Don't forget to prepare a food for their parents too. It will enhance our relationship to their parents – Prepare a fun games in the pool : playing ball, war in the water, etc – Provide many water toys and float or etc on the pool – Choose good timing, it can be at weekend or holiday – Choose best time, it can be at the morning between 09.00 – lunch, so also prepare lunch for them Maybe this will make a special moment during our children time to get better learn in interact new world and new people aroun him, and also it will prevent them from being stressed. The post Pool Party Ideas appeared first on Design And Landscaping Ideas. |
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