Low-Maintenance Paint Choices For Busy Winnipeg Families

You don’t want to spend hours every week cleaning your walls, and you don’t want to repaint too often. Low-maintenance paints can help. In this guide, we review some of the best options for low-maintenance paints in different areas for both your home’s interior and exterior: 

Why Busy Winnipeg Families Need Low-Maintenance Paint

Balancing Beauty & Durability In Everyday Life

You want your home to look good, and your interior paint plays an important role in the overall aesthetics of your home. You also don’t want to have to repaint every couple of years; that means you have to find paints that are both beautiful and durable.

There are a number of options available for durable interior paints; higher gloss paints are typically both easier to clean and longer lasting than matte paints, but they might not match the look you’re going for. We’ll explore options for durable, low-gloss paints later in this article. 

How Paint Choices Save Time On Cleaning & Upkeep

Higher gloss paints are easier to clean than low-gloss paints; that’s why they’re a great choice for kitchens, bathrooms, and kids’ bedrooms. We highly recommend them anywhere you expect your paint to be scuffed, stained, or marked – if a room is high-activity, high-gloss is the way to go. 

Interior Paint Options That Withstand Daily Wear

Stain-Resistant Paints For Kitchens & Bathrooms

As we discussed above, higher gloss paints are typically best for stains – that’s because they’re very easy to clean. Want to go a step beyond? We can apply paints that are specifically formulated to be stain-resistant!

While we still typically recommend higher gloss paints for kitchens and bathrooms, if you’re really set on a low-gloss option, there are stain-resistant matte and flat paints available, as well as higher gloss satin and eggshell finishes. 

High-Traffic Areas: Hallways, Mudrooms, & Kids’ Rooms

In high-traffic areas, you don’t have to worry as much about stain-resistant paints; scuff-resistance is more important. Here, we highly recommend using high-gloss paints, ranging from eggshell to satin or semi-gloss, depending on the type of finish you want. For those who want a matte finish, there are scuff-resistant paints available, but in our experience, they’re less effective than matte paints. 

Family-Friendly Finishes That Last For Years

One alternative that we find fits many homes well is the use of textured paints. Textured paint creates a unique look in every room it’s applied, with colours that shift slightly depending on how the light hits the different textures. They’re often low sheen, but still easy to clean and quite durable; the textured surfaces they create can last for years. 

Exterior Paint Built For Winnipeg’s Weather

Paints That Expand & Contract With the Seasons

When your home’s exterior needs a fresh coat of paint, it’s important to choose paints with high elasticity. These paints can expand and contract without cracking as temperatures change. Unlike interior paints, you don’t have to worry about indoor air quality when painting exterior surfaces, so higher levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are acceptable.

For Winnipeg homes, elastomeric paint coatings are among the best exterior paints; they’re incredibly durable, and they handle thermal cycles exceptionally well. 

Choosing Colours That Resist Fading & Dirt

You might have noticed that a lot of homes are painted in light colours; browns, blues, beiges, tans, greens, and whites that are not overly saturated. There’s a good reason for this: These colours reflect UV rays, making them more resistant to fading.

For colours that resist dirt, browns, beiges, and greys are best; they’re light enough to reflect UV rays while similar enough in colour to most dirt and contaminants that they hide them well. Many exterior paints are also formulated to resist dirt while being relatively easy to clean. 

Specialty Solutions For Long-Lasting Results

When To Choose Moisture-Resistant Paints

Moisture-resistant paints are the best choice for rooms where steam and running water are common – namely, bathrooms and kitchens. Several paints are formulated to provide high levels of moisture resistance without harmful chemicals; use them to prevent poor indoor air quality.

Moisture-resistant paint with a semi-gloss finish is often a good choice for these areas because they’re high traffic; as we’ve discussed, glossy paints are easier to clean. 

The Role Of Stucco Paint In Protecting Your Home

Stucco paint is durable, protecting your home against cold, mildew, mould, and more. We typically recommend elastomeric paints that are formulated for stucco. As one of the most popular siding materials in Winnipeg, stucco is everywhere; painting it properly can help you to better protect your home. 

Floor Coatings That Reduce Maintenance In Basements & Garages

Coating your floors can protect them in the same way that coating a wall with paint protects the wall; the right coating can also make maintenance for basement and garage floors a lot easier.

Opting for epoxy floor coatings or polyaspartic floor coatings can help your floors resist spills from oil and other chemicals. This makes these floorings very useful if you work on your car or have hobbies like woodworking or metalworking. These floors just need to be swept and mopped; maintenance is quite easy. We offer floor coatings for homeowners and business owners.  

Pinnacle Painting’s Proven Process Makes It Simple

At Pinnacle, our painting process is simple: We ask you what your vision for each room in your home is, as well as your vision for your home’s exterior, and then we get the job done. We’ll help you choose the right paint for each room, opting for eco-friendly paints with fewer harmful chemicals inside your home and durable, elastic coatings outside your home.

When you’re ready for us to get the paint job done, we protect all of your furniture with drop clothes, paint each room to our high standards quickly and efficiently, and then clean up afterwards. We work outdoors during the spring, summer, and fall, when the weather is right for applying long-lasting, low-maintenance paint. 

Transform Your Space With Low-Maintenance Paint

Call Pinnacle Painting for residential painting Winnipeg homeowners can trust. We’ll help you select low-maintenance paints that are the right fit for each room in your home.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]