Painting Frequency Question
 

When should I paint my interior house that was built in 2015 (The Villages)? The paint still looks clean. Is it okay to wait another two years before painting? Thanks.

Too much interior paint will reduce your square footage …makes it feel like the walls are closing in .

Yes, it is OK.

Reminds me of a guy I knew who sold carpeting. He said he had a lady customer who asked him how long the carpet would last. He told her that it will last forever, if you don't walk on it.

I do not know of any requirement to repaint INTERIOR walls, interior paint tends to last a long time. EXTERIOR walls typically need to be repainted after 7 to 10 years, especially the original paint, due to weathering and fading. So IMHO, yes you can wait another 2 years to paint your interior walls.

10 years would be average

10 years should be average, depending how much damage the kids do to the walls

When it gets dirty or when you get tired of the color.

Since dried latex paint is about .002 inches thick, please tell us how much smaller a 15' x 20' room will be.

.002 squared

15+15+20+20 = 70 linear feet
0.002 inches/12 = 0.0000167 feet
0.0000167 feet x 70 feet = 0.001169 square feet smaller

Hee, hee.

You have way too much free time. ROTFLMAO

As long as it looks nice, it's good.

Quote of the day!

Even though I gave you a thumbs up for your response, I'd like to remind people that cleaning marks off a wall often works!

The new owner can paint the walls after we die.

I use a Magic Eraser

Paint it if you want to "jazz it up" a bit. Builder's standard paint looks like an "almond colored paint bomb" exploded within the house; everything, walls, ceiling and trim is the same cheap super-flat almond colored paint. You would be amazed at how much better a room looks with a durable eggshell on the walls and true-white ceilings. Really "pops"!

Repainting
 

As long as it's clean, you still like the color, there is no damage from leaks or pets no noticeable fading from windows there is no time table on interior painting.

I paint whenever my wife says, "Ya know, I'm kinda tired of this color. What about..."
:bigbow:

Np need to repaint at all unless you're a heavy smoker

I am a painter with my husband in The Villages. There is no set time of when you should repaint. Most people do it if the walls are looking worn from Kids. pets, fingerprints...but mostly when they want a fresh look with an updated color.

If the paint is in good condition and you are pleased, you can wait. Washing the walls can improve the looks and the cleanliness at little cost.

I find "shiny things" distract her from that conversation...

Yes, they're more expensive than painting, but it saves me the torture of comparing eleventyseven shades of the SAME COLOR, trying to decide which is the best one...

I painted when we moved into our first home and sold it 24 years later having never repainted the interior. With touch ups with left over original paint it still looked new and we loved our walls! We’ve lived in our current home and the paint done at move in is the same paint at 19 years. I had the interior done by a decorator throughout. If I changed on room it would through the harmony of blended colors off, with touch ups with original paint, I’m not planning on repainting any time soon! I know others would look at it as “dated” since it isn’t grey walls and carpet as they seem to like today but it is pleasing to us!

you paint the interior when it looks to you like it needs to be repainted, either because of scuffs, fading, hand prints, or you are just plain sick of that color.

You aren't going to cause any structural deterioration of your interior walls by not painting.

Nothing says "I love you, wife" like "what color do like for the walls?" The day my husband says that to me (and means it) is the day I marry him all over again.

Every single room in my house is the same shade of beige. I hate beige. With the seething burning fire of a thousand suns. A nice pale grey, or a non-yellowish off-white, and the trim around the doors and the ceiling could be any coordinating hue - from stark white to rusty brown-red - no blues though. Not a fan of blue. Or green - hubby doesn't like green. Or heck, let's go rogue and have each room a different set of colors.

Just anything other than beige. barf

We went with cream with a darker brown accent for the trim...

Very different for FL, but my wife loves it, so I love it!