A fresh coat of paint gives even the gloomiest room a face lift. The crisp, clean look of a freshly painted room can’t be attained any other way. When you are getting ready to paint any room in your house, you want to make sure you prepare it first.

L.W. Winslow Painting, Inc. Has Put Together a List of Steps to Prepare Your Room for Painting

1. Remove the Furniture– Painting a room can be a messy job. The last thing you want is furniture to be ruined because it wasn’t removed before painting started. Make sure the first thing you do is get all the furniture out of the room. It will be much easier to maneuver around the room without furniture cluttering it.
2. Remove Wall Decorations– This is a no-brainer. Your walls can’t be painted if they are covered in pictures and other décor. Even if you are painting the walls the same color just to freshen them up, you will want the wall hangings removed to avoid damaging them.
3. Remove Outlet Covers– If you don’t remove outlet covers and switch plates from the walls before you paint, chances are, you will end up getting paint on them. You may think the color of the white wall is going to be the same as the plates and it doesn’t matter, but I promise you that there are several different shades of white and it will be noticeable. You also run the risk of brush strokes if you are trying to paint around them.
4. Clean Walls– It might be tempting to paint over your walls without cleaning them first, but the paint will adhere to the walls much better if the surface is clean before you apply that first coat of paint. There are many dark smudges and grease spots that will end up showing through a coat of paint or change the consistency of the paint. You are much better off if you clean the walls prior to painting.
5. Protect Your Flooring– As you paint a wall, there are small spatters of paint that will fall onto the ground. You don’t want to risk damaging your flooring by not giving it the protection that it needs. There may be paint that gets on the bottom of shoes while painting and you want to avoid that getting tracked throughout the room as well.
6. Tape Off Trim and Windows– Before you start painting, you want to tape around the edges of the molding and windows to avoid getting paint on them. In order to do the job right, it takes a certain amount of time. It will be well worth it in the end when you have clean and crisp lines around the molding in the room.
7. Set up a Prep Area– You need to set up an area for pouring paint and keeping any extra paint brushes and rollers. This will keep some semblance of organization to the job and save you from an unnecessary mess.

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Painting a room takes a lot of preparation before the job even starts. If you find yourself overwhelmed with the job at hand, L.W. Winslow Painting, Inc. can help. We offer interior painting that will leave your room looking clean and crisp with a new coat of paint. Call us today!