TIPS ON CHOOSING EXTERIOR COLORS FOR YOUR HOUSE
There are so many things to consider when repainting the exterior of your home. After you choose a painter and decide on the type of paint you want to use, you then have the task of deciding on a color. For some people this comes easily, for others, decorating or changing the exterior of their home is daunting. Here are some Tips to

1. Honor History
   If you're planning to paint an older home, you'll probably want to use a historically accurate color scheme. You can get old paint chips and try to recreate the original color. Or, you can refer to historic color charts and select shades that might have been used at the time your home was built.
2. Jazz Up
   the Past In some neighborhoods, homeowners fly in the face of history. Instead of choosing historically accurate colors, they paint their houses modern colors to dramatize architectural details. Using bright colors on old architectural details can produce startling and exciting results. But before you buy 10 gallons of bubblegum pink, it's a good idea to look at what your neighbors are doing. A fluorescent colored Victorian that looks splendid in San Francisco will seem wildly out of place in more conservative neighborhoods.
3. Consider Your Neighbors
   The house next door can give you paint color ideas, but don't copy your neighbor exactly. Choose colors that set your house apart, without clashing with nearby buildings.
4. Borrow From Nature
   The landscape around your house is blooming with color ideas. Trees may suggest an earthy palette of greens and browns. A beach setting might suggest vivid blues, turquoises, and coral colors. Even the garden in your front yard can inspire exciting color combinations.
5. Check the Roof
   Your house is your canvas, but it is not blank. Some colors are already established. What color is your roof? Your paint color doesn't need to match the roof, but it should harmonize.
6. Look For Things That Won't Be Painted
   Every home has some features that will not be painted. Does your house have brick walls? Vinyl windows? A natural wooden door? Will steps and railings remain their existing colors? Choose a color scheme that harmonizes with colors already present on your house.
7. Find Inspiration in Your Living Room
   It may seem comical to paint entire house based on the pattern of a pillow case, but this approach does make sense. The color of your furnishings will guide you in the selection of your interior paint colors, and your interior paint colors will influence the colors you use outside. Once again, your goal is to harmonize.
8. Focus on Details
   Depending on the size and complexity of your home, you may want to choose two, three, or as many as six colors. In addition to color for your siding, select accent colors for shutters, moldings, doors, window sashes, brackets, columns, and porch decks. But beware: too many colors will overwhelm your house. Too few can make your house seem flat and uninteresting.
9. Use Light to Add Size
   It's no wonder large, grand estates are often painted white. Light colors make a building look larger, and white is the favored color for traditional classical architecture. You can add to your home's sense of size and dignity by using white or a pale cream color.
10. Go Dark For Drama
    Dark siding or dark bands of trim will make your house seem smaller, but will draw more attention to details. Darker shades are best for accenting recesses, while lighter tones will highlight details that project from the wall surface. On traditional Victorian homes, the darkest paint is often used for the window sashes.
11. Discover Color Families
    Contrasting colors will draw attention to architectural details. But, extreme contrasts will clash and actually detract from details. To be safe, consider staying within a single color family. For some accents, try using a darker or lighter shade instead of a different color.
12. Strike a Balance
    A burst of a single color on just one part of your home may give it a lopsided appearance. Strive to balance colors over the entire building.
13. Samples
    We at Oasis Painting will provide with 3 free samples of your choices and we will apply them to your house, before we paint your entire home, its different to see a color in a little piece of paper than see it in the actual surface.

HOW TO REMOVE WALLPAPER EASILY:

If you do not like your wallpapers anymore, you certainly have to do something about that. The only thing that you can do is to remove the wallpaper, but sometimes, it just does not work. 

But although there may be some troubles, it can work. Just thing about how beautiful the room will be without the wallpaper. This is of a moderate difficulty task.

The first thing that you have to do is to give yourself some room. Remove everything from the wall even things like switches and receptacle plates. 

Also remove the furniture from the room. If this is not possible, move it to the center of the room and cover it with plastic sheets or traps. 

Most of the new wallpaper is dry strippable. This is what is actually says – the wallpaper could be removed form the wall without using any water or chemicals. 

Use a putty knife to pry up the seam at the corner, grab the raise seam and peel it back to a 45 –degree angle. 

If it peels off easily you are lucky because you have dry strippable wallpaper. Only pry up the corners of the wallpaper strip and slowly peel it off from the wall. 

It has to come out in sheets. But if the wallpaper sticks and tears into small pieces, you have to use water or some chemicals. 

Arrange clothes around the floor and cover them with towels. Score the wallpaper with a utility knife or a wallpaper-scoring tool that is available from most hardware stores. 

This tool is designed to stop you from cutting too deep or cutting the wallpaper surface of the drywall. 

Wet a section of the wallpaper or with a paint roller soaked with in warm water or in water mixed with commercially available wallpaper removers. 

Let the moisture soak in and try to peel off the wallpaper. The warm water will soften the glue and the wallpaper will come off. 

Peel off the wallpaper by starting from the seam and peel it back slowly at 45 degrees angle. Slide a utility knife under the edge and this should help in peeling off the wallpaper. 

Depending on how long the wallpaper has been on the wall and how strong the glue is you may have to wet down the section a few times. 

If the section is too stubborn wet it once again, move to another section and come back later. There still will be some stubborn pieces to which you have to come back later. 

If there are some pieces that are impossible to be removed sand them with 80 grit paper and after that paint with primer. 

When the wallpaper is removed the walls will get dry and you will wash them with a solution of TSP and water. 

Such you will remove all the traces of the wallpaper and the glue and you will get a smooth surface for the new wallpaper. 

If you will paint the walls, sand them to be certain that there is no more glue left. 

It is not easy to remove wallpapers. Plan at least a day to remove the wallpaper from an average room. The walls of the old houses are made from plaster while newer houses are made from drywall. 

On plaster walls you can use a lot of water without damaging them but drywall has paper surface and because of that do not completely soak it. If your house is at least 50 years old this means that it is made of drywall. 

Do not put wallpaper on unpainted drywall. It is better first to put a coat of primer on the new drywall. Wallpaper that is directly attached to the drywall will peel the paper from the wall. 

The things that you will need are sponges or long nap paint roller, screw driver, wallpaper scoring tool or utility knife, wallpaper remover, buckets or paint roller tray, putty knife (4 inches), warm water, garbage bags (to bag up old wallpaper), drop cloths and towels.