Been Painting All Day

After painting our architraves, windows and door frames in a matt paint we have decided to repaint them all again in the same colour but in gloss.

The upkeep and cleaning required to keep light coloured matt architraves clean is insane! As much as I hate painting, I hate cleaning more.

The problems with matt, light coloured, architraves (I have learnt all these since the initial painting) are that it marks and stains really easily and with time, if they are white, they fade to yellow. So by painting the architraves with gloss paint they become easier to clean, the dirt doesn't stick to the architraves as much, they don't stain and the paint doesn't fade to yellow. 

Another tip to keep your white from fading to yellow (and this counts for anything you are painting white) put a drop of black paint in it. It won't change the colour but it will stop it fading to yellow.

So moral of the story if you hate cleaning, don't paint your architraves in matt paint.

The end.