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Friday, March 25, 2011
If you are in need of doing some interior house painting in Wilmette it is always a good thing if you have some guidelines that you can go by. Most people have probably painted a room somewhere at sometime in their lives.
The very first thing you should do is get some color swatches to see which color is going to look best in the room that you have decided to paint. If you are painting the room white, you will not need to do this step. Once you have decided upon the color, then you will need to take measures of the room so that when you go have the paint mixed you can give that information to the home improvement employee.
Note that it is important that your paint brushes and rollers are not the super cheap bargain brushes and rollers. Cheap rollers might leave fuzzy marks on the walls and cheap brushes will leave streak marks and even bristles from the brush.
You should prepare the room by putting the blue tape on everything in the room that is not going to be painted. This tape is best because it does not stick as much as other tapes.
When it is time to paint the first thing you should do is to swish the brush you are going to use, in paint thinner, the reason for this is that it will actually make it easier to clean the brush after you are done painting.
It is a good idea to make sure to leave wet edges when you are painting and to paint away from those edges. This will help you to avoid painting over a dryer area and cause overlapping of paint that can actually be seen when the entire room is dry.
Always paint in this order, start with the ceiling, next go to the walls, then the trim would be next, after which you would then paint any shelves if there are any and finally you would end with painting doors. Following these simple guidelines could actually save you several hours of painting time.
House painting can end up being a big task. For many homeowners a professional and great looking result is worth the cost of hiring a painting contractor.
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