Interior Designing: 3 Pro Tips for Indoor Painting
How long does it take to paint a room in your home? Some estimates put the task at a 6.5-hour job — and that’s at the very least.
That figure also assumes that you’ll helm your indoor painting job like a pro, too. Of course, because you’re not quite sure how to paint indoors and make it look pristine.
We’re here to help you with that. Here are three pro tips to make your interior painting job a success every time.
1. Prepare the Space
There’s a lot of work that goes into preparing your room for a seamless paint job. And a lot of it happens before you even lift your brush.
For starters, you’ll want to move any obstacles out of the way. Remove as much furniture from the space as you can so that you can move without bumping into anything — and splashing your paint as you go. What you can’t move, including large furniture items and, of course, your floors, should be covered, and this article explains why.
After that, you will want to take time to prepare your walls for paint, too. Pinpoint any cracks or holes that you’ll need to fill in with flexible filler. Be sure to sand down any excess — and then lightly sand all of your walls to rough them up — leaving you with a smooth surface to which paint will cling.
2. Roll It Right
Next, make sure you have the right roller for the job. Pick up a high-quality roller brush so that it doesn’t shed lint. There’s nothing worse than finding lint stuck in your otherwise perfectly painted walls!
On that note, be sure that your roller is a short nap roller. In other words, the fibers on the roller should be quite short so that they don’t soak up too much paint and cause drips when applied to the wall. Pros use long-nap rollers to create textured paint jobs, but if you want a smooth, simple finish, then you only need a regular short-nap roller.
3. Remember Where Your Wet Edge Is
Finally, you will want to move with some sort of swiftness as you roll paint onto your walls. Otherwise, if the paint starts to dry, and then you go over it again with your roller, it can cause unsightly streaks — not the professional finish you’re going for.
So, as we said, move with intention, but remember where you left off. The last-painted part of your wall is called the wet edge, and that’s where you should put your roller after re-dipping it into your paint try. Working from the wet edge prevents streaks, again, fro that picture-perfect finish you seek.
Make Your Indoor Painting Perfect
It takes quite a few steps to perfect an indoor painting project. However, with the right prep, tools and technique, you’re on your way to painting a room like a pro.
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