the truth is, painting holds both aesthetic and functional advantages for your home. Some of these will kick in immediately, improving your home’s qualities, while others accumulate over time as cost-saving measures. To learn why an interior painting project is so important, here are some advantages you can achieve with just a few coats of paint.

Cleans and Refreshes Your Walls

When you repaint your walls, the first step is to prepare the surface by sanding and cleaning them. You then lay down a layer of primer that’s known as a base coat. During this process, your walls become cleaner than they’ve been in a long time. You wouldn’t go without cleaning your floors and carpets.

Protects Your Interior Walls

Interior paint serves a similar purpose to exterior paint. Paint keeps out moisture, preventing mold or mildew from building up. It also repels dirt, dust, and allergens from your walls. If you live in an older home that has plaster walls, the paint can prevent dust from forming where the plaster would otherwise deteriorate.

Looks Aesthetically Pleasing

Most people love the dramatic change that comes with painting their walls. If you live in a smaller space, painting the walls a bright color can help open up that space. Light paint colors create space while dark colors make rooms feel cozier and smaller.

Increases the Value of Your Home

One of the best ways to improve the value of your home while saving money is to repaint your walls. It’s an affordable way to remodel, and it makes your home look attractive to potential buyers. If you want to make a small change on your home before putting it on the market, painting it is a great way to get a big return on your investment.

Personalization

When you move into a new home, all of the paint colors are pre-determined. Whether you are renting or you just buying a house, you likely didn’t choose the colors before moving in. In new places, the colors of the walls are from the previous tenant. While the colors got you in the door, it’s time to make your place feel like a home. Painting is your opportunity to coordinate the colors of your walls and home with your decor, furniture, and most importantly your personality. Colors can make us feel particular ways. If you want to feel energized or royal, happy or sleepy, there is a paint color that is perfect for the mood you are hoping to set.

Low or zero VOC paints can improve the air quality of your home

Paint has changed a lot over the years. Low or zero VOC paints release far less toxins and are healthier for everyone, including kids and those with allergies or chemical sensitivities. They have little to no hazardous fumes, minimal odor during the paint job and no odor once the paint has cured. New paint will also keep dirt and dust build up to a minimum, furthering the advantages for those who suffer from allergies or respiratory issues.

Proactive identification of insect damage

Speaking of insects, termite damage is a major killer for wood-based homes; being able to identify this problem (and address it) proactively is crucial if you want to save yourself some extremely expensive foundational repairs. Evaluating your home’s siding before adding a fresh coat a paint can help you identify any possible insect damage early, and adding the paint itself can help stop an infestation in its tracks.

Increased lifespan of siding

No matter what type of siding you have for your home, a new coat of exterior paint can help increase its lifespan. Most traditional forms of siding, such as wood or vinyl, need replaced periodically to keep your home protected—if new paint can add even a few years onto the lifespan of that siding, you could end up saving hundreds to thousands of dollars in eventual expenses. In addition, new paint can help you cover up or temporarily repair damage that your old siding has sustained.