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If you're looking to update the look of your house's exterior, there's no denying that a fresh coat of professional-looking paint can work really well. But there are a number of things that you'll need to consider to ensure the project pays off well.

Here are a few top considerations for your house-painting project.

Your Home's Style

The style and architectural design of your home should guide how you go about your paint job. While you'll want to beautify your home, you don't want to create a look that's overly dramatic and out of sync with the general style of your home.

Choose paint colours that will accentuate the architectural beauty of your home and make it shine apart from the rest. For example, if your house design borrows from the culturally rich style of colonial buildings, painting your house exteriors in a single white colour is a great way to increase the outdoor beauty of the home.

Your Home Surroundings

It's not just your roof, exterior walls and other components of your building envelope that impact the kerb appeal of your home. The features in your landscape also contribute to your home's outdoor appearance. 

When you're choosing a paint colour for your home's exteriors, make sure you go for something that will blend in nicely with the look of other features in your residential landscape, including the trees, shrubs, turf, flowers, paving, fence and more. This will help to ensure your home's outdoor environment is in perfect harmony with your home's surroundings.

Resistance to the Elements

Unlike the paint applied on interior surfaces, exterior paint coatings are constantly exposed to weather elements. Persistent rain, snow, ice and hail, excess humidity and direct sunlight all have the potential to damage paint.

When you're purchasing paint for your home's exteriors, make sure you choose a high-quality product that's designed to withstand the vagaries of weather for a long time. This way, you won't have to worry about touching up the paint a short while after your paint job is completed.

If you don't know how to choose the best paint for your house's exteriors, you can always consult with your house painters. As well as helping you choose the best paint for your project, they can also apply the paint for you. This way, you can avoid the rookie blunders that may compromise the functionality and aesthetics of your paint job.