Your dining room is one in which you may find yourself casually dining with the family, and perhaps even entertaining friends and extended family.
You may be aware that a simple act of painting your home interior can help you to make a room look nicer, but did you know that even something as simple as an accent wall being painted in your dining room can make the difference between an okay looking dining room and one that is truly spectacular?
If you make the time to learn about how to better paint your accent wall, you’ll find that you might save money on the painting project and could even get it done in less time.
Let’s have a look at some dining room accent wall painting tips in Cincinnati, OH
1. Using The Best Paint For A Dining Room
There are of course a lot of paints that you’re going to be able to use when you’re painting your dining room accent wall, but just because you can go into a store and buy a gallon of paint, it doesn’t mean that it’s going to be the right paint to use.
Since the room the accent wall is going into is primarily meant for bringing in food and enjoying it, there’s a good chance that you may end up with some food stains on the wall, particularly if you have younger dwellers living with you in the house.
This means that you’re going to want to make use of a kind of paint that is easy to clean — and in just about every case that means that you should use glossy paint over flat paint, which would be a lot more difficult if not impossible to clean.
2. Considering Multiple Color Options
In painting an accent wall, one of the key things that makes it an accent wall at all is the fact that the wall is going to stand out from the other walls in the room in some meaningful way.
One way in which you’re going to be able to do this is to pick a color that is going to contrast with the color or colors in the room — it’s how you’re going to notice the wall above the other walls in the room, as it were.
However, you should be aware of the fact that there’s going to be more than one option available to you insofar as there are numerous colors that will properly contrast with colors that are present in the room.
3. Clean After Sanding
Though you may already be aware of the fact that when you sand a surface that’s going to be painted, it makes for a more smooth surface and therefore a better surface for your painting project, some people are unaware of the fact that after you sand there are traces of the sanding in the form of sanding dust that can be found on the floor as well as the surface that was just sanded.
Before you move on to the next step in the painting process, you’re going to want to make sure that you’ve fully removed all of the sanding dust from the area where you are sanding — this will ensure that you don’t end up with any of this sanding dust on the accent wall when you have finished.
4. Allow Time For Your Wall To Dry
After you have done just about anything involving your accent wall (or your future accent wall) that involves getting the surface being painted wet, you have to make time to just wait for the surface to dry before you go to the next step.
Doing this will ensure that you avoid some of the more troublesome painting problems that can be found related to trying to apply paint or even primer over a moist surface.
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