5 Ways To Ensure A Cleaner Living Room Painting Project in Prairieville, LA

The process of painting a living room can be at times a bit messy, and when you are thinking about how long a painting project is going to take it is important to remember that the time that you have to clean up after you have finished plays into the overall time.

It bears mentioning and makes sense that if you can make the project cleaner while you are in the process of doing it, it will take less time later on to clean.

Let’s look at and consider five ways to ensure a cleaner living room painting project in Prairieville, LA.

1. Primer First

One of the things you’re going to have to bear in mind when you’re painting your living room if you want to make sure that it goes as cleanly as possible is to make use of a coat of primer prior to the first coat of paint.

The reason that this is the case is that having a more smooth surface makes for a cleaner painting job and there are few things that are going to make a smooth surface quite like a primer.

The primer additionally helps the paint adhere to the surface that much better, which means that it’s going to last that much longer.

2. Appropriate Dropcloth

You may be well aware of the way that a good drop cloth protects the floor during the painting of your living room walls.

What you may not realize is that not all drop cloths are going to protect surfaces equally well — your floor, for example, can be better protected by a heavier drop cloth as it will be less likely to shift around under your feet while you are walking.

3. Paint Slowly

An interesting way that you can make sure that your painting project goes as well as possible with the fewest areas of mess is to take your time and to paint more slowly.

Though in many cases you will want to paint as quickly as you can to get the painting project finished sooner, you often will ultimately end up taking more time due to having to go back and correct mistakes that were made — the mistakes having been made due to rushing while painting.

4. Good Lighting

In any painting project, you’re going to want to have proper lighting — when you are painting, seeing the surfaces that you are painting will make it a lot easier to paint them and make sure that you don’t possibly make any painting mistakes.

Having better lighting will also allow you to see where you are applying your paintbrush as well as your paint roller and make it so that you are less likely to drip excessive paint in places where you have less protection for surfaces that aren’t going to be painted.

5. Allow Time To Dry

Lastly, if you want to make sure that you have a painting project that is as clean as possible before you finish it, you should always allow time for surfaces to dry before you proceed with the next step in the painting project.

This includes the time that you’re going to spend allowing your walls to dry after you have fully cleaned them, the time that you are going to let the surfaces dry after you have fully sanded the surfaces and then cleaned off the sanding dust, and even after each coat of primer and paint.

By allowing time for surfaces to dry, you will ensure that the next step goes well — if you paint over a coat of paint that is even a bit wet will nearly always cause painting problems and issues down the line.

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