Tips for painting your house  

Painting the interior of your home can be exhausting, especially if you don't have the skills and abilities needed in your back pocket. Here are a few tips to get your end result faster and with less cost and frustration: -

1. Get all the necessary information you'll need on interior paint types, products, materials and application.
2. Determine the perfect color and shade of your interior. Also learn the benefits of the paint finishes available to enable you determine the right one for your interior.
3. Budget for this job, to enable purchase the quality of paint that you need.
4. Clear all the furniture from the room as much as possible or completely cover the ones that cannot be removed with canvas or plastic tarp. Cover the surfaces you do not need too.
5. Get yourself ready as you are bound to get drips of paint on yourself.
6. Open the windows to ventilate and allow paint to dry faster.
7. Slosh your paint brush or roller in a solvent to make it easier to clean when you are done.
8. Use gloves to keep your hands clean especially when using oil-based paints.
9. Test whether the existing painted surface will take the new paint by adhering a strip of duct tape to this surface. If it flakes, you may need to scrape and sand the surface before painting.
10. Keep the paint can openers safely.
11. Paint from top-down--ceiling, walls, trim, cabinets, doors.
12. Don't paint over problem walls--fix the holes and cracks before painting.
13. Apply primers to allow the paint to grip to the wall better and longer. Remember to tint the primer to your chosen color by adding a small amount of the paint color to it.
14. Clean up--ensure all the materials are cleaned and properly disposed of.

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