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Perfect Color Combinations for Doors and Windows for Your HOA

Painting your home in an HOA is often required every five to seven years. Maintaining a polished look is also needed, and basic upkeep is part of living in such a community. However, exterior painting isn’t enough to keep your home looking kempt, and it’s not enough to please most HOAs. Window and door trim must be maintained, and door and window paint colors must also comply with HOA painting rules. Here are some ideas that could bring out your home’s greatest features without ruffling any feathers.

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What Is the Most Long-Lasting Exterior Paint?

If you’re going to invest in exterior painting, you don’t want to have to do it all over again years ahead of schedule. You need to know the longest lasting exterior paint and how to get the best performance from exterior paints and finishes. Here’s what we’ve learned over our decades working as local house painters with expertise in HOA painting.

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Best Non-Fading Exterior Paints

Paint fades when pigments that hold the color come in contact with a substance that breaks down that pigment such as light, ozone, or oxygen. While paint fades gradually after interior painting, exterior paints are more prone to faster color fading because of constant exposure to UV light and other factors that affect the quality and depth of the pigment. Faded exterior paint is aesthetically unappealing. It can make your home look like an eyesore, even if its construction and design are sound. And it’s important to remember that if your paint doesn’t look like new, it’s not performing as well as when it was first applied. This means fading paint is leaving your surfaces more vulnerable over time.

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