Two Reasons to Have Your Home Interior Painted After Your Partner Moves Out
Posted on: 23 January 2019
If you and your partner have split up and they have moved out of your home, it might be a good time to have the interior professionally painted. Read on to find out why.
To get a fresh start
One of the difficulties of continuing to live in your home after your partner leaves is that every room will remind you of some experience you had with them.
During the first few weeks or months after the break-up, when you're still recovering from your heartbreak, you may find yourself feeling emotional each time you walk into a specific area of your home, due to the memories that it stirs up. You might, for example, tear up when you walk into the kitchen if this was where you had the first major argument that eventually led to your relationship ending.
One way to stop this from happening is to have a painter change the wall colours in these rooms. A few coats of paint in a striking new colour can drastically alter a room's appearance and ambience and make it seem like an entirely different space.
This will allow you to make a fresh start without having to endure the upheaval of a house move and will ensure that you can spend time in every area of your home without being constantly reminded of a person that is no longer in your life.
This, in turn, should help to speed up the process of getting over having your heart broken.
To make your home suit your individual tastes
There are a lot of wonderful things about living with a partner. However, co-habiting with a loved one also involved making a great of compromises. You can't simply rearrange the furniture in the bedroom without consulting your other half first, or go out and buy a brand-new sofa without mulling it over with your partner beforehand.
If you and your ex-partner always had different decor tastes and, as a result of this, you never got to decorate your home in the way you really wanted to, now is the perfect opportunity to start doing this.
Hiring a local painter to change the wall colours in your home is a great first step to take. For example, if you always dreamed about having a bedroom with fuchsia-coloured walls but your partner refused to let you paint them this shade, now is the perfect time to make this decorating dream come true.
Likewise, if your ex-partner always disapproved of the idea of having, for example, a teal-coloured accent wall in the living room, you may want to ask the painter you hire to create this look for you.
Painting your home interior in the exact shades that you want will help you to focus on the positive elements of your break-up and thus make it a little bit easier to cope with this difficult experience.
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