The painting of a living room can be a fairly complicated thing — it can be one of the bigger rooms in your home depending on how you’ve designed it, as some might prefer to have more or fewer guests in their home.
If you are a bit careful with what you are doing and make sure that you follow some basic guidelines, your painting project will invariably be considerably more successful.
With that being the case, let’s now look at seven things to remember when painting your dining room in Cincinnati, OH
1. Know When You Will Be Painting
The first thing that you should remember when you are looking to paint your dining room is that it’s a good idea to know when you are going to be painting your dining room – and this doesn’t mean just that you have a ballpark estimate of the time of day that you’re going to be starting your painting project, though of course, that’s not a bad place to start.
Rather, you really have to plan out this kind of painting project well enough because you have to realize that painting a dining room is not the kind of thing that’s just going to take place over the course of a few hours but rather a couple of days or maybe more depending on your painting pace.
You also have to realize that when you are painting there will be times you have to basically just stop and wait — wait for surfaces to dry, for example (this is something that will consume quite a lot of hours!)
2. Decide If You Will Buy The Equipment
The next thing you should know is if you’re going to be buying the equipment outright that you’re going to be using for your painting project or finding another path to making use of the equipment.
You can borrow this kind of equipment from friends if they have such equipment or if you have access to a hardware library, borrow from them.
The good thing about these choices is that as long as you are careful and return the equipment as you got it, you should be okay.
3. Be Careful With Color Choice
Not all color choice is going to be equal — some color choices are better than others, and if you’re just blindly going off of only what a book tells you in terms of looking good, you will likely be making a mistake.
Every dining room is different and you have to go with what is going to look good in your particular lighting conditions and with what you have in the room – so it’s better to test out small paint samples to see how they will look on the wall in these varying conditions.
4. Clean Before You Paint
You may be aware that it’s a good idea to clean your dining room walls before you clean, but do you know that you also need to clean the area around the walls that are going to be painted as well?
This is because if you have a dusty work environment in which you are painting, you will end up finding that same dust in your paintwork.
5. Make Sure You Use Primer
In painting your dining room walls, you need to make sure that you use a primer before you apply the first coat of paint.
It’s good to use a primer before you paint because primer makes the surface you are painting that much easier to paint and also makes the paint adhere better.
6. Remove Sanding Dust After Sanding
One of the key steps to preparing the walls is to make sure that you sand them so that they are smooth and ready to be primed and painted.
After the sanding process, however, it’s important that you clean up the sanding dust after the sanding process, or indeed that very same sanding dust will end up in the paint.
7. Protect Your Floors
Lastly, you must take the time to protect your floors from the dripping paint that is almost an inevitable part of the painting process.
Doing so is certainly better than the alternative and just allowing the paint to fall on the ground for you to later have to clean.
Johnson Specialty Painters in Cincinnati, Ohio is a family business — we pride ourselves on employee and customer relations as well as high quality of work performance and exemplary work ethic. Call us at (937) 630-4549 to make an appointment!
