| Growing up, I had a best friend named Reggie who | | | | same, you simply have to match up new colors to |
| lived in a home that was always clean, always well | | | | those existing items. I painted for an interior |
| decorated. Because of this, painting and decorating | | | | decorator off and on for a few years until they |
| has always seemed like a common sense necessity | | | | moved to another city. I painted most of her house |
| to me. His mom liked to do a quick re-paint of their | | | | inside and some of the outside. She had a real knack |
| whole house every spring. She and Reggie (his dad | | | | for pictures, wallpaper and furniture. She also had the |
| died when he was young) would take a whole week | | | | money to do it all. Painting decorating the outside of |
| to give everything a fresh coat of paint. His mom | | | | your home can be mentioned here also. There are |
| was a very clean women. She was raised on a farm | | | | exterior custom color charts that show three-color |
| and I guess people back then farm kids were raised | | | | patterns or scenarios, even historical colors. It can |
| well. Because my best friend and his mom would | | | | get rather pricey to live life at its best when it |
| take a few days to go throughout the house | | | | comes to painting and decorating your home. If you |
| painting, no doubt this made an impression on me. I | | | | do a little bit at a time it can be a fun hobby. One |
| would come into the kitchen or go through their | | | | thing that I recommend as a house painter is to use |
| house and everything was nice and new. A nice | | | | quality paints and wall coverings. Never skimp on |
| lifestyle. Something painting decorating is all about - it | | | | these things. After all, why waste your precious time |
| adds flavor to our lives. As I got older and found a | | | | and resources on inferior materials? Especially if you |
| wife, I moved into one of my grandfathers | | | | have to live with it. I like to see people put different |
| apartments. I noticed that he was a good painter | | | | colors in every room so that every room that you |
| also. He painted white ceilings with pastel color walls | | | | enter is a treat to the eyes and the emotions. I like |
| and the woodwork trim was enameled white also. So | | | | to see colors that gradually flow from one room to |
| from these two experiences alone I learned how to | | | | the next gracefully. It's the little things like that that |
| be a good painter decorator. Basically if I was to do | | | | create the nicer lifestyle. There is power in color. |
| a custom interior paint job, I would get custom color | | | | Colors effect our moods. Some people that I have |
| charts from the paint store. Paint stores have | | | | painted for will put the same drab color in every |
| historical custom color charts with three-color | | | | room throughout the house as if they got a special |
| schemes. This helps to take the guesswork out of | | | | deal on the paint or something. And some people |
| matching and choosing colors as well as planning out a | | | | never paint any rooms until they move out. They |
| color scheme for each room. From there all you have | | | | never get to enjoy the paint job. Now I'm not all that |
| to do is pick your curtains, bedspreads, carpeting, | | | | good at choosing colors. I remember a friend in |
| rugs etc. and match them to your new paint job. | | | | school that had some of those doodle art pens and |
| That's basically all there is to doing interior decorating | | | | was coloring a psychedelic VW Beetle. All his colors |
| as far as I see it. Then comes the talent. Some | | | | he chose were amazing. They all went together so |
| people have a knack for putting colors together that | | | | well and they were bright. As long as I use a custom |
| it looks really good. If you just moved into a new | | | | color matching chart from the paint store I can do a |
| house and there is existing carpeting that you don't | | | | pretty good job when painting and decorating |
| want to change, tile floors, stained woodwork or | | | | houses. Nonetheless some people have real knack for |
| painted woodwork that you plan on keeping the | | | | making awesome colors flow. |