Eggshell Paints & Our Kids!

Ever notice when you have kids, and this may apply more to having boys with a lot of toy trucks that you end up needing to paint certain walls in your house more often then others just because your walls end up being the point of impact for many races ect. There is not to much you can do to prevent this from happening but I can give you a tip on how to make the repair of these walls or the repainting of them a lot less work.

Using latex eggshell paints when you have small kids is really a life saver. Because of how easy it is to feather new and old paints (that are the same color) together you are able to patch a small area of wall with out having to repaint the entire surface. The reason why you can blend or feather out a repair easier is there will end up being no visible brush strokes when you use eggshell paints that you can see, everything just blends together.

To insure that this works though you must understand a bit about feathering paint. It really is no different then drywall mudding when you think about it. You start off thick in the center and use less and less paint towards the outside of the painted area which will blend the new paint with the old paint and that fact there is no shine to the paint like you have with semi-gloss paints it makes it very hard to see that the wall was patched or only a certain area has new paint. I have used this method of painting in my home and it works very well. Even if I hit a wall carrying something and have a little nick to cover up.

I do how ever use semi gloss paints for trimmings and window casings as they seem to get a lot more dirty of the coarse of a year and I want my clean up time to be as easy as it can be. Semi gloss paints wash up easier then eggshell which is why most use them on walls, but not me I want my repair or patching jobs to be as easy as they can be, which is why I use eggshell.