Chennai - Home Painting guide

Painting your home is a huge task and involves lot of creativity and ideas of how to spruce things up!! A new home/apartment roughly takes to years to show all settlement cracks and other faults. It is a good idea to undertake painting your home after that.

Nowadays, you have a variety of options not only in paints but also how you paint. Texturizing ,3-D effect, embossing are some techniques that are now gaining popularity.

Always remeber to choose the type of paint you need for the home before choosing the colors. You might need wether-shield paint/ wipe-off paint (kids tend to scratch on walls!!) etc.

Try to keep one wall of the room as a prime focus. Have a dash of color there depending on your personality. Also a note that when doing up your kids rooms make sure that you can easily change them as their (kids) likes and dislikes vary as they grow older.




Before deciding on the paint color for home, you need to be well versed with color principles for painting. There can be variety of color combinations for painting using a mix match of primary and secondary colors. There are three categories of shades namely primary, secondary and tertiary. Color principles provide the guidelines for choosing the right color combos to give your house just the perfect unique look you always dreamt of.

Interior designing is all about the unique blending of multiple articles in different shades in such a manner that there is a continuous flow. Primary colors as in blue, red and yellow are very bright and vibrant colors. They denote prominent qualities like red is indicative of anger as in hot blood. Yellow is warm and shining like sun and blue symbolizes patience and calm. If you combine these three radiant shades, you get the black color that is the pride of parties.

Secondary colors also known as complementary colors are a result of the blending of two primary colors. The three secondary colors include orange, violet and green. To bring about harmony, secondary colors can be mix matched to give rise to a neutral shade, which is simple and sober. When primary and secondary shade is mixed together, it gives rise to the third color segment called tertiary colors. A couple of tertiary color combinations are yellow and orange, red-orange, blue-violet and yellow-green. According to your personal taste and personal preference, choose the color combination out of the wide gamut of beautiful shades.

* An excellent site describing the different types of paints and where it is best suited: http://www.house-painting-info.com/house-paint-types.html
* Directory listing of paint distributors in Chennai: http://yellowpages.webindia123.com/dpy/Madras,+Tamil+Nadu/Chennai/Paint+manufacturers+and+Distributors/1/

Here are some top paint sites:

ICI Dulux
Jenson Nicholson
Berger Paints
Nippon Paints
Asian Paints