Painting Trim Around Garage Door

Hiding your garage door will draw attention to other parts of the house and if you ve done recent exterior work it s a good bet to put your garage door in the background with a color that blends into the house.

Painting trim around garage door.

Paint a section at a time. That s a lot of time for our wood trim to be exposed to the elements. Door trim can surround interior and exterior doors as well as openings to hallways or entryways. Trim paints are.

How to prepare door trim for painting. If your door is paneled start with the panels. Our house is almost 20 years old. Most of our clients agree that garage doors should be painted siding color while the trim around the doors are painted to match the trim on the rest of the house.

Reload the brush when necessary and maintain a wet edge. Paint labeled specifically for use on trim and doors is certainly one suitable option to refresh baseboards moldings soffits and fascia such as the front of the roof line. The majority of homes we paint garage doors are painted body color. Wood trim on a house is lovely until it isn t anymore.

Start at the top corner and continue along the walls. Starting at a top corner of the door trim begin painting along the side edge of the trim where it meets the wall. Considering most garage doors are not exactly what we would consider a unique feature of your home. Using semigloss exterior paint and a 2 inch angled sash brush with synthetic bristles paint around the edges of the.

Continue until all side edges of the trim are complete. If your garage door isn t great looking a coat of paint will only help to hide it. Brushes are best for applying paint to most trim. Because of this the outside trim around the front doors garage door and the porch pillar were in pretty bad shape this spring.

Choose a semigloss or high gloss alkyd based paint for doors which get a lot of use and abuse. Though vinyl trim is durable once it gets weather. Latex enamel also holds. When preparing your trim for paint you should have all of.

Reload the brush when necessary and maintain a wet edge. With a bit of elbow grease and the right products you can make that old faded vinyl trim look as good as new again.