I'm finally getting towards the end of my renovations, and exterior painting is one of my last things.
We're not painting the house (it's been stucco'd, and I used a tan pigment in the stucco, so not painting the actual sides of the house). But we're going for an overall tan color scheme, with red accents.
We got our premium (well, more expensive... dunno much about paints) buckets (5gal each) of red and tan. We have a list of what needs to be done with these, and I had a couple q's on how to prep a couple of different items (shown in the pics).
First pic is the gutters. These are the typical white downspouts (almost positive they're aluminum). Do I just clean / scuff these and then paint? Is scuffing necessary?
Second pic is the shutters. These are wooden shutters, and are already about as close to my red paint as can be. I imagine these just need to be cleaned, maybe scuffed a little, then painted?
Third pic is the storm shutters. These are aluminum, and are a very light tan with red stripes. I intend to make them more tan (my tan stucco is darker than the tan on the storm shutters), and to do red stripes on either side (currently you can see that each side has 2 red stripes - I plan to bridge that gap of tan in the middle of the stripes with red, so that each side has just 1 (wider) red stripe). I know I need to clean them up first, do they also need to be scuffed/sanded?
Any tips are appreciated, I'm really new to painting and don't want to do these wrong and have them all cracked/peeling a couple months after I put them up lol!
We're not painting the house (it's been stucco'd, and I used a tan pigment in the stucco, so not painting the actual sides of the house). But we're going for an overall tan color scheme, with red accents.
We got our premium (well, more expensive... dunno much about paints) buckets (5gal each) of red and tan. We have a list of what needs to be done with these, and I had a couple q's on how to prep a couple of different items (shown in the pics).
First pic is the gutters. These are the typical white downspouts (almost positive they're aluminum). Do I just clean / scuff these and then paint? Is scuffing necessary?
Second pic is the shutters. These are wooden shutters, and are already about as close to my red paint as can be. I imagine these just need to be cleaned, maybe scuffed a little, then painted?
Third pic is the storm shutters. These are aluminum, and are a very light tan with red stripes. I intend to make them more tan (my tan stucco is darker than the tan on the storm shutters), and to do red stripes on either side (currently you can see that each side has 2 red stripes - I plan to bridge that gap of tan in the middle of the stripes with red, so that each side has just 1 (wider) red stripe). I know I need to clean them up first, do they also need to be scuffed/sanded?
Any tips are appreciated, I'm really new to painting and don't want to do these wrong and have them all cracked/peeling a couple months after I put them up lol!