Holiday season is just around the corner. With parties for family and friends inching closer on the calendar each day, now is the time to think about giving your home those extra touches to make it look fresh and beautiful as the year comes to a close.

A new coat of paint could be just what you need to give your home that updated look so that your family and guests can enjoy a striking new backdrop for all the holiday fun. Before you head off to the home improvement store with visions of creating your own gingerbread house, get specific and think about these four ideas for affordable, beautiful projects that you and your Chesapeake VA painting contractor can complete for the holidays.

1. Create an Accent Wall

Doing the whole room is the traditional approach to a painting project, but you can achieve a dramatic effect by painting just one wall. It’s easier, less expensive, and more unique than the usual method. Often you can choose a room with less furniture in front of it, making your setup and completion work much less demanding.

Think about the colors you already have in place at your home, then consider other hues that complement them. Choose one with a holiday feel—a deep green for Christmas, browns or oranges for November—and apply to that accent wall for a striking effect with less work and less expense.

2. Make Your Kitchen Cabinets Pop with New Paint

A great alternative to painting your kitchen walls is just to paint the cabinets. Doors and drawer fronts are subject to a lot of contact from hands, utensils, and spilled food. You may not realize just how bad they’re looking until you give them new life by repainting them!

Go back to your existing color plan to borrow inspiration. Choose something that will make your cabinets really stand out as visitors arrive. Another bonus of this project is that much of the work can be done outside the house by simply removing the doors and drawer fronts and carrying them into a workspace in the garage or basement.

3. Fight the Winter Cold with Warm Colors for Bedrooms, Living Areas

From coastal Chesapeake VA back to the West Virginia side of the state, you know you’ll be dealing with later sunrises, earlier sunsets, and colder temperatures as the year comes to an end. That’s why it feels so good to bundle up with a warm blanket and a fire in the fireplace.

Colors can give you that same feeling of wintertime comfort. The sunny, summery shades of orange, red, yellow, and green that you can choose from will help your home hang onto that summer warmth long enough to get you to the rebounding mercury of spring.

Just as with other rooms, a four-wall job is not necessary. Choosing a single wall for a warm accent will give you that same warm effect as people enter the room.

4. Don’t Forget the Other Decorations

A well-decorated room fits together. The furniture, floor covering, paint, and window treatments should all make sense together. If something is out of place, the whole room looks off. Because the holidays carry traditional bold colors like orange, red, and green, it can be very easy to run into color conflicts.

Take swatches of fabric from your wreaths to the paint store as you consider colors. Stay away from the really bold colors in rooms with Christmas trees. Remember that the trees themselves are focal points, and if the walls are the wrong color, they’ll be distracting. Keep it complementary!

Kick the Holidays into Full Swing With Interior Painting!

With so much to do, painting may be the last thing you have time for with the holidays looming. Get your house ready for whatever your calendar holds by letting professional interior painters do the work for you. A painting contractor will not only cross the job off your busy to-do list but will also help you settle those tough color decisions, finish questions, and all the other aesthetic and practical considerations that must be settled. At Hughes Painting, we can build our schedule around yours. Give us a call to plan how our interior painters can get your job done while you’re at work, decorating outside, or hitting the mall for some early gift buying. We’ll find a way to get your job done right—and right on time.