In getting ready to make your dining room look better, it’s important to consider all of the various elements that would go into play.
The budget that will limit you as far as your dining room ceiling painting project, for example, will be a limiting factor if you have great ambitions but not so much money to execute them.
You can, however, do certain things that will bring down the cost of your painting project – and by doing these things, you will be able to do it with the money that you have.
Let’s have a look at some tips for painting your dining room ceiling on a budget yet still keeping it looking good.
1. Measure Your Ceiling
One of the things that gets your dining room painting project to cost as much as it might is how much money you spend on the primer and the paint.
If your first thought about this is that you don’t have to buy primer, let us reassure you that you really ought to consider it and we will get into why in the next tip.
However, you don’t want to buy buckets of primer and paint that are just going to sit around unused and hence it is good to measure the surface that is going to be painted.
Doing this will ensure that you will be buying the proper amount of paint — not too little, which would require you to buy more and not too much, which would cause the excess to sit around in storage until it goes bad or just needs to be donated.
Measuring your ceiling will also give you a further advantage, which is that you will be able to make a good plan for the timing of your project — you’ll spend a good amount of time waiting for surfaces to dry but if you time it properly you will save that waiting period for not in the middle of the day but rather at periods when you will be able to do other things such as rest!
2. Use Primer
As mentioned above, the use of primer is going to be one of the things for which you are going to be thankful while you are painting your ceiling.
For one, and this is more to do with the process of painting your ceiling itself, you will find that it helps to apply paint to your ceiling when the ceiling is smoother and primer helps to make for a more smooth surface.
Secondly, you will note that having a more adhesive surface will make your painting project last longer, meaning that a longer period of time will pass until you need to paint again — and this will bring down the overall cost of your painting project.
Between the two benefits of primer (plus the fact that it will cover up bad stains better than just about anything else) and you will see how really necessary it is to make use of a primer before you apply the first coat of paint.
3. Use Second Hand Equipment
Though of course, you are going to have painting equipment before you paint your ceiling, there’s nothing stating that this equipment needs to be brand new from the store.
Indeed, some of the best painting equipment can be found second hand — sometimes people will buy painting equipment, make use of it, and then find that they have no need for it anymore — and when they do they will sell it.
This is where you will be able to swoop in as it were and get a good deal on the painting equipment — and so long as it can be cleaned and used you will likely save a good amount of money on your painting project.
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!
