Tricks For Painting Your Spare Room in St. Louis, MO

In looking to make your house look nicer (or apartment if you have an apartment) you could think about the possibility of painting the spare room – the kind of room that some people might use for crafts, a guest room, or even an office when the need is there.

If you are to make the time to improve upon how you paint the room, it’s quite possible that you will find that you do a better job of painting – and of course this could mean that you have a better painted spare room, and maybe even for less money.

Let’s have a look at some tricks for painting your spare room in St. Louis, MO

1. Measuring The Walls Being Painted

One thing that you’re going to want to do when you are looking to paint your spare room is to measure the walls that you are going to be painting.

There are a number of reasons why you will want to measure these surfaces, one being that you need to know how much paint and primer are going to be necessary to paint them.

If you just look at the walls and try to guess, it’s quite possible that you will guess too low or too high, and this will either lead to you buying too much paint or not enough – and neither of these are particularly good options.

If you buy too much paint, you will end up having paint that is just sitting around the house with nothing to do – but buying not enough paint means that you’ll have to go and get more, which could both waste your time and money if you don’t find it for the same price or if you have to go to a number of places to find it.

2. Carefully Choose Colors

You’re going to want to carefully choose the color or colors that you use in painting your spare room because the chosen color will be one that you will be living with for at least a few years to come.

You might think about how you are going to get an idea of how colors will look, but the truth is that there are few ways that will get you the idea of how your spare room is going to look with the new color more than just getting a sample of paint or two and using it to paint a small area of the wall.

By doing this, you will see the color in person, and this even means that you will be able to tell how it will look when the lights are on or off, and when the light is coming from the windows.

3. Clean Before Painting

Lastly, you should know that before you go to paint your spare bedroom, it’s imperative that you fully clean the room.

This means that you’re not going to just paint the walls that are being painted (of course this is a good idea because you aren’t going to want to be painting over a dusty or grimy surface to begin with) but even in the area near your walls where you are painting, you should try to keep it relatively clean.

When there is any kind of dust in the area near where you are going to be painting, you can almost guarantee that it may well eventually end up in the paint – and that’s not very good for your painting project.

The best thing that you’re going to be able to do before you paint is to fully remove as much of the dust from both the surface being painted as well as the general area, and then allow time for the surface being painted to fully dry.

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