Get your home ready for all the fun and family this season with holiday decorating ideas from AMC Painting. We’ll help you deck your halls inside and out with interior painting inspiration and exterior lighting tips. Go ahead! Make your house a cozy, cool and festive place everyone will love to call home for the holidays. We’re here to help!
Freshen Up Interiors with a New Coat of Paint
The holiday season is usually filled with guests — holiday parties, visiting grandparents, the kids friends sleeping over during school break — and you want your home to look its best for all that foot traffic. Now is the time to get those walls glowing with all the colors you’ve been dreaming of when you’re admiring paint swatches.
Many homeowners think that painting in the winter won’t work due to scheduling or colder temperatures. However, it’s easier than you might think to book an interior painting project this time of year. AMC Painting can typically paint an average home in a day or two and you won’t have to empty your entire home or crash in a hotel to get the job done. All your household items are covered and protected (although you will have to take down pictures and move furniture away from the walls.
As for temperature interfering with the paint curing process, interior paint does just fine in your climate-controlled environment. Even better, Colorado’s mostly mild winter weather means you can leave a few windows open in the daytime to give that low-odor, low-VOC paint an extra boost. You’ll have a home that looks and feels fresh and brand-new when you open your doors to celebrate this season!
Color Ideas for Your Interior Refresh
While there may be a few homeowners who want that classic red and green Christmas motif (we’re ready if you need us, Santa), we know that most people will want a palette they can enjoy year-round. Check out these options!
Neutral Interiors
These colors work across every room. They’re also a great selection if you have plans to sell your home in the next few years. Buyers love a palette that doesn’t interfere with their own personal vision for the space!
Creative Colors
You don’t have to keep it neutral. If you’d like a chance to express yourself more boldly through your interior paint color, we’ve got some ideas for that, too. Check out these creative colors pulled from Sherwin-Williams’ Color of the Month for 2024-2025. These picks were all featured in our monthly newsletter. You can sign up here to get more color inspiration and other tips delivered directly to your inbox here.
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- SW 7578 Borscht
- SW 6967 Frank Blue
- Caribbean Coral SW 2854
- Mount Etna SW 7625
- Icy Lemonade SW 1667
- Honeydew SW 6428
Awesome Accents for the Holiday Wow Factor
If you’re not up for a whole-home interior makeover, that’s okay. You can transform your home with smaller touches that still make a big difference. Here’s what our customers are doing to spiff up their space in small, thoughtful ways.
Accent Walls:
Accent walls give you a lot of power when it comes to jazzing up a room with a little color or a bold hue. Have you always wanted to play with a color like Tricorn Black, but worried it would dominate the room? Would you love a little Cherries Jubilee, but not across the entire room? Accent walls let you go big and bold without engulfing your entire room in one color. Not only that, they can set the stage for the holidays. Maybe your snowy flocked Christmas tree will shine with sophistication in front of a charcoal accent wall.
Vibrant Doors:
Have you noticed how everyone seems to be changing up their entryways with standout front doors? We love the new trend that gives homeowners a chance to put a little whimsy into their exteriors without committing every inch of siding to the color. Colors that contrast with your siding add a nice surprise for visitors. If you want to make it really unique, you can pick a bright yellow, flashy purple or even pink, teal, orange or green.
Architectural Highlights:
Show off the coolest features of your home with interior paint! Do you have wainscoting you’d love to use to highlight vintage wallpaper? Is there an unusual alcove or an immense gallery wall you want to draw the eye? Paint can certainly do that. Give those features the love they deserve with new paint!
Permanent Christmas Lights — A Year-Round Glow-Up
Let’s talk about exterior decor! You’ve likely raked or shredded every leaf in the yard and covered the patio furniture for the winter. What else can you do that will really make a difference in how your home looks this holiday? Now is the time to consider the benefits of permanent Christmas lights. No, we don’t mean leaving up your lights all year after Christmas. In fact, we aren’t talking about hauling out the ladders and untangling yard upon yard of store-bought twinkle lights at all.
The days of cosplaying as Clark Griswold while you freeze and staple for hours are over. And, while lots of people generally refer to exterior soffit lighting as permanent “Christmas” lights, these systems actually offer year-round illumination. The fact that they can be used for holidays is actually just an incredibly festive bonus! These lights also provide security, elegant curb appeal and convenient illumination for your yard. Here’s what else we love about switching to permanent LED soffit lighting for the holidays — and beyond.
Professional Installation
We joke about Clark Griswold, but only a little. Climbing up on a ladder in the middle of winter isn’t fun or all that safe. With permanent lighting, you won’t have to worry about extension cords, falling in the bushes or stapling your sleeve to the fascia. Professional installers do all the hard work and leave the fun to you: learning how to light up your world with the handy app!
Millions of Color Combinations
Do you want classic white twinklers? Wintry green? Maybe you love the modern lime green, pink and red combo that’s become so popular for the holiday. Permanent Christmas lights offer nearly endless selections for brightening your exteriors. You can control them all from an app on your smartphone, not some anonymous green button attached to a dangling cord.
Chase, Race and Play
Over at our lighting division, AMC Illumination, we get a lot of questions about getting soffit lighting to twinkle and play like classic temporary lighting. We have good news — these lights have plenty of play to offer.
Safer Lighting
Christmas light safety continues to improve, but permanent, professionally installed lighting is still safer. Electrical fires are the leading cause of house fires. The more you tax your electrical system with extension cords, portable twinkle lights and overloaded outlets, the more you increase your overall risk. Professional soffit lighting uses a specialty connection that safely converts power to prevent piling onto your power grid.
If you’re excited about the possibilities permanent exterior lighting can bring to your home, check out this guest blog from AMC Illumination. It’s filled with ways to use your lights to celebrate the season.
Make Your House the Home to Be for the Holidays!
These holiday decorating ideas will help you create a festive space to celebrate and leave your home looking amazing for the new year ahead. If you’d like to learn more about transforming your space, give us a call to book a complimentary estimate. We’ll help you bring your vision to life with paint and light this holiday season!
