When you’re looking to paint your living room, one of the things that might come up as a concern is how much it is going to cost you.
This is especially going to be the case when you have a relatively restricted budget, which can mean anything from not having a budget without limit (and this makes sense) to knowing that the work needs to be done but minimizing the budget as much as possible so that there is money for other projects in the future.
With that being the case, let’s now look at and consider seven tips to painting your living room on a budget in Dayton, OH
1. Planning Out Your Painting Project
Though it may not make quite a lot of sense that the simple act of planning out your painting project would help you to get the project under a certain budget, if you think about it, it actually makes sense.
When you rush to do a painting project, it’s quite likely that you’re going to be pressed for getting the supplies that you need, meaning that you will get them wherever they are available without any regard to the price of the supplies.
By having more time for planning out your project, you will be able to better source out your supplies and time out your project so that it will ultimately be less expensive.
2. Using Primer Before Painting
Making use of a primer before you paint is another one of those things that doesn’t seem to be related at all to how much the painting project costs, but this is in fact one of the more long-term projects cost things.
This means that when you use primer when you are painting your living room, you have a certain amount of assurance that your painting project is going to last significantly longer than if you don’t make use of primer first, and if there’s one thing that brings down the overall cost of a painting project it’s when that painting project lasts longer overall.
The longer your painting project lasts, the less the project will be said to cost you per year of its existence.
3. Not Painting Too Quickly
In any given painting project, you are likely to want to get the work done in a more expedient manner, but this is not necessarily the best way to get it done.
The problem with painting too quickly when you are painting your living room is that you end up making a number of painting mistakes, and you can just imagine that those mistakes are going to eventually have to be corrected as it were, and almost without fail the time that you take to correct mistakes is greater than if you had just painted more slowly in the first place.
4. Buying Paint When It Is On Sale
This is a fairly simple way for you to save money on your painting project — it’s only buying paint for your painting project when it happens to be on sale.
Of course, you don’t always have a good indicator of when the paint is going to be on sale and so it behooves you to try to have a flexible painting schedule so that you don’t rush painting and are able to paint the room on a budget.
5. Buying Paint From Donation Sites
There are organizations where you can donate paint, whether it is slightly used or otherwise (for example, paint that was purchased but not used for a painting project.
When you go to these organizations, you are going to be able to find paint for sale for a discount — fairly substantial, really — but the caveat is that you are not going to have much of a choice if not any on what color paint you are going to get.
It’s a bit important that you be flexible with the color paint that you use for your painting project.
6. Borrow Equipment If You Can
It’s entirely possible that the equipment that you are going to be using for your painting project is going to be one of the most important aspects of the said painting project.
The truth of the matter is, however, that painting equipment can be quite expensive – and so if you can possibly borrow the equipment from a friend who paints more often then it is well worth trying to do so.
7. Paint Just An Accent Wall
Lastly, consider the possibility that instead of painting the entire living room, you might want to paint just an accent wall for the room.
This is going to make a lot more sense if you don’t have a pressing need to paint the walls of your living room and you’re just looking to improve it in some way as it were.
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!
