7 Mistakes To Avoid While Painting Your Kitchen in Wrentham, MA

Any painting project is bound to come with some difficulties, and a kitchen painting project is one of them — you’ve got a room to paint and it’s an important room that would normally be used regularly.

When you add to this some fairly easy to make errors, it’s easy to have a painting project that can get more expensive and take longer to do.

With that being the case, let’s look at seven mistakes to avoid while painting your kitchen in Wrentham, MA.

1. Using The Wrong Kind Of Paint

Though there are numerous kinds of interior paint (and indeed you of course have to make use of interior paint when you’re painting your kitchen) it’s a good idea to use a kind of paint that is glossier and not flat.

It’s also important that you look for a paint that will be resistant to moisture — since it is one of the rooms in which there are typically high levels of humidity and having such paints will help to avoid issues with mold and mildew.

2. Not Cleaning The Walls

In painting your kitchen walls, there are a number of steps that you have to take in order to make sure that the painting goes well.

One of these is in cleaning your walls — you have to have a clean wall before you start because not only is it a surface that is not smooth, it’s basically painting a dirty wall and you aren’t going to want that.

3. Not Sanding

Sanding your walls is one of a few ways that you’re going to be able to get a smooth surface — and a smooth surface is going to be good for you as it will be easier to paint and it will be likely to stay on better.

It’s not the kind of thing where you have to roughly sand the surface — a gentle sanding will get the surface to be smoother.

4. Not Properly Ventilating

In any painting project, you are going to need to ventilate the space where you are painting.

This can mean anything from having windows open to having a door or more open if possible to get airflow going.

5. Not Taking The Time To Consider Colors

When you are looking at painting your kitchen, it’s important to think about the different color options that you’re going to have available to you and to not just go with some color that you might find looking nice in the paint store.

It’s a bit better to get a few small samples and to try to paint small areas which you will then be able to compare in a number of lighting scenarios — this will give you a good idea of how your kitchen will look when painted those colors such that you’ll be able to properly choose one.

6. Not Removing Sanding Dust

After you take the time to sand the surfaces in your kitchen, it’s important that you also remove the sanding dust that will come up as a result of the process.

This is important because you will not want to allow the sanding dust to possibly end up in the paint as you are continuing the painting process.

It’s not something that is going to take a long time overall and it will vastly improve the quality of the paint job.

7. Not Protecting Surfaces

Lastly, it’s important that you make the time to protect the surfaces that are not being painted so that you will not accidentally get paint on them — of course you won’t get paint on them on purpose if you don’t mean to.

All it takes is laying down some drop cloth, ideally the kind that will not allow the paint to seep through, and in doing so help keep your kitchen looking good.

Power Painting Plus specializes in Interior Painting, Exterior Painting, and Cabinet Refinishing. We look forward to helping you with your home renovations in Franklin, MA. Contact us by calling (508) 784-1800.

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