7 Living Room Painting Blunders You Should Avoid in West Chester, PA

June 23, 2021
2021-06-23 Left Moon Painting West Chester PA Living Room Painting Blunders

7 Living Room Painting Blunders You Should Avoid in West Chester, PA

In the painting of your living room, you are likely to spend a lot of time trying to make the room look good through the use of good paint, good technique, and of course an eye for what is going to look nice in the room.

The interesting part comes when you find that if you make certain mistakes, you can somewhat jeopardize your painting project, or at the very least delay it significantly, sometimes even making it cost a lot more than it should.

Let’s look at seven living room painting blunders you should avoid in West Chester, PA

1. Painting With Exterior Paint

One mistake that people will sometimes make when they’re painting their living room is in making use of the wrong kind of paint — exterior paint, for example.

You may wonder how a person could come to use the wrong kind of paint and the answer fundamentally comes down to people looking for paint based on price versus using the right sort of paint.

Interior paint is meant for painting the interior of your home and if you’re using an exterior paint, you’re missing out on a lot of the properties of the paint that distinguishes it from interior paint.

2. Not Sanding Before Painting

In preparing to paint the living room walls, you’re going to want to make sure that you have surfaces that are as smooth as possible.

One thing that is tremendously helpful in doing this is to prepare the surface that is going to be painted by sanding it first and then of course to clean the sanding dust that comes from the sanding process.

By doing this, you will have a surface that is more smooth and therefore more receptive to being painted properly.

3. Not Enough Light

You may not realize that there’s a correlation between the amount of light that you have in a room where you are painting the walls and the quality of the paint job, but there is and it’s quite significant.

The relation between the two come in the fact that in order to properly paint your walls, you have to be able to see them well and having a good source of light is going to help you with that — the better to see flaws that need to be corrected (more on this later) and even to see where you have applied paint correctly or not.

4. Wrong Gloss For The Living Room

When you’re painting, you may think that you basically are set so long as you are using interior paint and that’s more or less correct to a certain extent.

If you want to have a really well painted living room, however, you are likely better off making use of a paint that is glossy and not flat.

The glossier the paint, the easier it ultimately is to clean — flat paint is quite difficult to clean, that is to say.

5. Not Letting Paint Dry

In painting the living room, you are likely to make use of more than one coat of paint.

If you do this and you do not let the first coat of paint dry (or second should you use three in the end) you are going to be making quite a mess — the first or second coat will stick to the brush or roller.

Better to wait it out and allow the coats to dry before moving on to the next stage.

6. Not Fixing Holes And Other Damage

It’s important to fix holes in the surface of your living room wall before you paint.

By not doing so, you’re just looking to make a living room wall that looks like a damaged wall with paint over it — holes need to be fixed, patched, etc.

7. Not Using Good Drop Cloth

Lastly, make sure that you use a good quality drop cloth before you paint — otherwise, you will risk getting paint on the floor.

A good drop cloth will not allow the paint to get through to the floor.

Consider hiring a professional painting contractor in West Chester, PA like Left Moon Painting. We have years of experience offering residential repainting services in Kennett Square, PA, and West Chester PA. If you would like to try us, request a FREE estimate below to get started, or call us at (484) 757-5295 for more information.

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