5 Tips For Painting Your Dining Room in Ottawa, Ontario

When you’re looking to make your dining room look better, there are many things that you can do — a nicer table, better hardware in the form of lights, perhaps even some art that you can hang on the walls — but what about painting the walls and giving them an updated look?

There are a number of things that you can do to make your painting project go better, and in some cases you can greatly cut the time that it takes to paint your dining room as well as the overall price of it.

Let’s now look at and consider five tips for painting your dining room in Ottawa, Ontario.

1. Plan The Paintwork Beforehand

Likely one of the most important things that you can do for your painting project involves preparing for it in advance — meaning that you know not only what you are going to be doing at every phase of the project as well as when you are doing it, but also all of the materials and consumables that will be involved in it.

This is important for a number of reasons including the fact that you’re going to want to know how much paint you will need to purchase before you start painting so that you don’t get too much or too little, both of which would be bad for you in terms of a painting project.

Moreover, if you don’t make a calculation of how much space there is to be painted, you will have a harder time knowing how long it’s going to actually take you to paint, which will entirely throw off your painting timeline.

2. Buy The Right Kind Of Paint

There are of course many kinds of paints, and even quite a few that are appropriate for use when you’re painting the interior of your home, but not all of them are necessarily going to be good for painting your dining room.

Depending on how many people you expect to be coming through your dining room, it’s entirely possible that it would be better to get a paint that is glossier.

Glossy paints have many good aspects, one of which is that it is much easier to clean than a flat paint — and so if you expect to be cleaning the walls more often, it’s a good idea to get a glossier paint.

3. Choose A Good Paint Color

In terms of choices, one of the hardest ones that you’re going to be making is in choosing an appropriate paint color for your dining room.

There are going to be a lot of factors that weigh into the choice of a paint color, including your own style preferences as well as the kinds of colors that you will find in the rest of the room — the furniture, for example, as well as the color of the ceiling.

So long as you have some kind of coordination in mind when you’re choosing a color and maybe even get a sample or two to help you see what the paint color is going to look like in person, you’re going to do well in choosing your color or colors.

4. Sand To Help Make Smoother Surfaces

You will find that when you have a surface that is more smooth, it’s a lot easier to paint — and that the paint tends to adhere to the surface considerably better.

One way that you’re going to be able to achieve a smoother surface is to sand it before you paint — and of course, you’re going to need to not only sand the surface but also to clean it after you’ve sanded so that you don’t have sanding dust in your paint later on.

5. Allow Time To Dry

Lastly, remember that when you have any surface that’s wet, you need to make sure to give it time to dry.

Whether it’s the surface of the walls after you give them a full cleaning or even the paint that you have applied prior to moving on to the second coat, you should make sure that the coat of paint has fully dried.

There are significant paint problems that can develop if you try to paint over a wet (with water) wall or even a surface that is painted but not fully dried before applying a second coat.

If you need help choosing the type of paint and painting your dining room in your home in Ottawa, Ontario, our team at Millers’ Painting Company can help.

We offer free paint consultancy alongside high-quality residential and commercial painting services in Kanata, Nepean, Barrhaven, and Westboro areas of Ottawa, Ontario.

To get started with us, book a FREE estimate or call us on 613-979-5435

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