Increase Your Home’s Value & More: How Painting Services Pay Off
Hiring a painting service is a great way to refresh your home’s interior or exterior.
Whether you’re looking for a color change, a routine job to paint over tired or faded coats that require new life, or a pre-home-sale refresh, there are many reasons you might choose to hire a residential painting service. But here are two more: increasing your home’s value and adding curb appeal!
Let’s unpack these a bit more below.
What is a Painting Service & How Much Do They Cost?
Painting services do much more than just slap a coat of paint on your interior walls or exterior siding.
True professional painting services serve as experts in:
- Surface Preparation: Do you know the difference between how to prep vinyl siding versus wood dental molding for painting? How about plaster vs sheetrock painting? A professional interior and exterior painting services company will know what to do!
- Damage Repair: From spackling nail holes in sheetrock to filling cracks in wood trim, most house painting service providers will be able to handle most minor damage repairs.
- Advanced Techniques and Specialty Finishes: From cutting in without any painter’s tape to applying specialty finishes like metallic and marble to crackle finishes a good professional painting services company can handle it all.
- Cleanup & Restoration: Putting back your curtains the way they were? Check. Cleaning up dust and debris? Double check. A good residential painting service will ensure that the job is done right.
Why Hire Out Home Painting Services?
If you’re thinking about painting the exterior or interior of your home, you might wonder why it could be a better idea to hire house painting services instead. In addition to the unique things that a pro may do that you may not, including those services listed above, here are two major reasons to bring in the big guns.
You’ll Instantly Improve Your Home’s Curb Appeal
Hiring interior painters can breathe new life into any room, from covering up dated finishes or colors you don’t like to decking your room out in the trendiest color.
Hiring exterior painting services, meanwhile, can dramatically increase the curb appeal of your home, inspiring envy in even your choosiest neighbors and even increasing its value!
You’ll See a Substantial Increase in Your Home’s Value
Painting your home’s interior or exterior (or both!) is probably “the least expensive investment for the biggest return”, according to Jennie Norris, chairwoman of the International Association of Home Staging Professionals.
According to experts, painting your home’s exterior could yield a 2-5% increase in its value. While this may not sound like a lot at first, consider what a 5% increase is for the national average of $420,000: around $21,000!
Meanwhile, a fresh coat of paint on the inside could get you $4,000-$6,000 more, on average.
The cost of painting services and the cost of materials can, of course, affect what your actual ROI is, but it’s still much better to choose someone who gets the job done right than someone who creates more work for you, especially if you’re planning to sell your home.
Tips for Maximizing the Value of Painting Services
Here are a few ways to get the most value out of the painting service you hire.
- Choose the Right Colors: When it comes to painting your home before selling it, neutrals are your best bet.
- Timing & Frequency of Painting: Try to have your home’s exterior painted every 5-10 years or so and its interior painted every 5-7 years or so, and every repaint will cost less. Be mindful of weather conditions in your area too. For instance, painting the exterior of a home in the northeast in the winter might cost a pretty penny, if it’s even possible!
- DIY vs. Professional Painting: Professional painting usually looks, well, professional, to both homeowners and home buyers! Professionals don’t only come with the right technique and knowledge, either. They also can recommend the best quality paints for the job.
Choose Your Next Painting Service Wisely!
Ready to upgrade your living room’s paint color or repaint your home’s exterior after years of looking worn out? Whatever your reason for starting a painting project and calling in the experts, doing so can yield both visual and monetary benefits.
Considering multiple painting services? Here are 20 questions to ask your painting contractor before hiring them.
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