7 Mistakes To Avoid Painting Your Dining Room in St. Louis, MO

When you have a dining room, you generally spend a healthy amount of time in it — typically having meals, as it were — and thus it’s nice to have a room that is aesthetically pleasing.

One way that you can make sure that this is the case is to paint your dining room — after all, if it has been awhile since it was last painted, it may be in need of an update.

Let us now look at seven mistakes to avoid when painting your dining room in St. Louis, MO

1. Shaking Paint

You go into a paint store and what do you see when they’re mixing paints together to achieve a good tint — a special machine that shakes it thoroughly.

Seeing this you may come to think that shaking paint is a good way to get it ready for your own painting process, but this is not the case.

While the paint store can properly shake a can of paint, your home shaking methodology will more likely introduce bubbles into the paint which will then find its way into your interior paint work.

Best to stir the paint and therefore avoid the bubbles that come with shaking.

2. Not Planning Your Paint Project

When you have a painting project like a dining room painting job, you have to plan it out well in advance.

The reason that this is the case is that you need to have a plan for how much paint you’re going to need for the painting project as well as when it is going to take place.

The way you do this is to of course take measurements of the space that is going to be painted and use these measurements to calculate how much paint you will need.

3. Not Cleaning

It’s important for you to clean the area that is going to be painted – this is to say the surface of the dining room walls as well as the floor area.

You want to have little to no dust on the floor as you will no doubt walk around while you are painting, and having dust there will invariably allow the dust to get on the walls being painted.

4. Not Sanding

One of the keys of interior painting is having a smooth surface — and in the world of getting a good paint job done, this starts with making sure you sand your surface before you lift the paintbrush or roller for the first time.

You don’t have to excessively sand the surface, mind you — you just have to lightly sand the surface so that it is more smooth and ready to be painted.

There are those that will tell you that you should also sand between coats of primer and the first and second coats of paint and this may serve you as well.

5. Using The Wrong Kind Of Paint

There are many sorts of paint that you can use when you are painting your dining room but not all of them will work equally well.

It’s worth looking into whether you are going to want to use a higher gloss paint that will be easier to clean or not, for example.

6. Not Checking For Surface Flaws

It’s important while you are preparing to paint your dining room walls to check for any kind of flaws that may be present such that you can correct them first.

Such flaws could be even small pits or holes that could come about from having things hung up on the wall or even just accidentally knocking into the wall.

These flaws need to be corrected whether with putty or otherwise before being sanded and then primed and moving on.

7. Painting In The (Relative) Dark

Even if you think your dining room is well lit, it may not be illuminated sufficiently for a painting job.

It’s better to add some stronger lighting meant for paint work and other indoor remodeling so that you won’t miss any areas that need to be covered or touched up while you are painting.

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