Choose Natural Colors with Organic Paint

Spring is a great time to make renovations on your home before it gets too hot for manual labor. One renovation that is always a burden is painting your outside or inside walls. If you know you have to re-paint your place, but you want to find a way to make it a little more interesting and green, give organic paint a try.

Organic paint offers two specific benefits: It doesn’t contain toxic chemicals and it comes in warm, earthy colors.

While you can probably purchase a variety of eco-friendly paints at big box stores like Lowes and Home Depot, if you’re looking for experts on these products with a larger variety of cutting-edge options, try a local green business.

Eco-Green Living in Takoma Park has a variety of organic paint options that they can mix and blend to your specific needs. Eco-Painting is a DC home painting service that only usese organic paints. They have great expertise in what products work best in different homes and which colors will coordinate with your overall look.

Two prime examples of organic paint are milk paint and natural clay paint:

Milk Paint: These paints are completely natural. They glean their rich earthy colors from pigments found throughout nature. Because they are 100% natural, milk paints contain no toxic chemicals and have no strong odors. Milk paints are also very durable, some of the world’s oldest wall paintings were done using milk paints.

Natural Clay: Natural clay paint offers you the option to customize textures, colors and finishes on your walls. Like milk paints, natural clay paint is 100% natural. Natural clay paint is great at adjusting to changes in the environment; the paint will expand and contract smoothly with changes in temperature and it easily absorbs excessive humidity or odors.

So this weekend, when you’re making plans to renovate some things around the house, remember organic paints.

Photo Credit: Eco Painting Web site