5 Avoidable Errors When Painting Your Bedroom in Denver Metro, CO

When you are working on going about making your home a better place for you to live as well as general upkeep and maintenance, one thing you might consider is the repainting of one or more bedrooms.

The thing is that when you paint, it’s entirely possible that you could end up making errors that will be quite costly — and yet they are easy to get around if you are aware of them.

As this is the case, here are five avoidable errors when painting your bedroom in Denver Metro, CO.

1. Not Cleaning The Walls

A nearly surefire way to getting your walls painted improperly is to start by neglecting to clean them.

You may well be thinking that your walls are sufficiently clean, and that could be the case for the most part, but not when it comes to painting your walls.

Even the most minute amount of dust and dirt on your walls is bound to get that much worse when you have applied a coat of primer and then coats of paint to them — and seeing as the foundation of a good paint job is having a smooth surface, you won’t do well by having a dirty surface.

Do yourself and your paintwork a favor by starting with a clean surface.

2. Not Allowing The Walls To Dry

You may be wondering what specifically is meant by not allowing the walls to dry — does this mean after you have applied the final coat of paint?

Of course, it is important to allow your walls to dry when done, but there is much more to it than this.

After just about every step in the process that involves the walls getting wet in any sense — whether this is after you have properly cleaned your walls (see above) or after you have applied a coat of primer or even the first coat of paint.

3. Starting The Painting Project With No Plan

It’s true that you can start a painting project such as painting the walls of your bedroom and have no plan for it whatsoever.

The only issue with this approach is that it will take an indeterminable amount of time for you to get the painting work done, and you may end up spending a lot more money on it than you would if you would carefully plan out the work.

For example, it’s quite easy to buy way too much paint than you will actually need if you don’t take the time to take measurements of the walls that you are going to be painting.

4. Using Cheap Equipment

You may be of the impression that it’s not such a big deal if you buy your paint rollers from the cheaper section of the store — after all, as long as it is a paint roller and can hold a bit of paint, that’s all that matters, right?

This is not at all the case — paint rollers that are more bargain bin tend to shed while you are painting — you end up with bits of the roller in the paint on the wall, and that just means you have to clean up the paint.

You’re much better off in the long run getting higher-end equipment or even borrowing equipment from friends or family that paint more often.

5. Improperly Protecting The Room

When you’re painting the bedroom or any other room for that matter, you need to make sure that you have protected the areas of the room that aren’t actually being painted,

This means, for example, removing the covers for your electrical outlets and light switches and protecting the area with painter’s tape.

You should also take the time to protect the floor by using things like tarp or drop cloth such that the paint you are using to paint the walls doesn’t end up on the floor as well.

Don’t settle for just any painter when you can get the attention to detail and professionalism from Imhoff Fine Residential Painting in Denver Metro, CO. Call us today to speak with one of our professional color consultants.

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