Guest Room Painting Mistakes To Avoid In St. Helens, OR

In your home you may have a guest room, a good place to put people visiting you for a short or even a long spell -- and you generally want the room to look nice as it's not just a place for them to store luggage and sleep at night.

However, it's important to note that there are things that you can do while painting that can entirely throw off the painting project or even make it cost significantly more.

Today we will be covering some of the mistakes that you're going to want to avoid so that you don't end up spending more time or money than necessary in pursuit of a good guest room.

Let's take a look at some guest room painting mistakes to avoid.

1. Using Paint That's Hard To Clean

When you have guests in your home, there's a good chance that you will need to clean the room a bit more often than a different sort of room that doesn't see a regular flow of guests and the like.

There are many kinds of interior paint that you can get for your interior painting project, but if you get a flat paint you will find that it is much harder to clean should the walls get dirty.

Indeed, the paint will come off a bit as you are cleaning the walls as well as whatever you are trying to remove and that will lead to a wall that looks like it needs to be painted once again.

Instead of this, you are better off making use of a glossy paint as this is more easily cleaned using a damp cloth and some water, or even soapy water -- and then you just have to let it dry clean.

2. Painting With An Unpleasant Color

Though it is your guest room that is being painted and you are of course more than welcome to make use of any color you want, you have to recognize the fact that you are painting a room for the benefit of guests that are going to be staying there.

Consequently, it's a good idea to make use of a color or colors that are going to be pleasant for your guests, and so you want to think of colors that are calming and relaxing, not ones that are going to possibly overly excite or even agitate a person in the room.

The kinds of colors that are more soothing are colors in blue and green and even gray and off white families, though you aren't going to want to go too bright with the white lest you give your guest room a rather sterile and generic look that is not fun for anyone.

3. Not Covering Anything

To the best of your ability, you're going to want to make sure that you remove the furniture that you can from the room so that you don't find yourself stumbling over it as you are painting the room walls.

However, when you have some furniture that cannot be removed from the room, you are going to want to make sure that you completely cover it with a good quality drop cloth or tarp so that you protect it from paint drips and spills.

Even if you don't anticipate yourself being anywhere near that furniture during the painting process, you still run the great risk of getting paint on it as you move around the room.

Though it won't take all that much time to cover your furniture as well as your floor while you are painting, you will be saving yourself a lot of time in cleaning after you finish painting.

If we can help in any way with your painting in St. Helens, OR and beyond, feel free to contact us at CHSPainting, we are always ready to help! Please contact us at CHS Painting. Office. 503-543-4875 Web. www.chspainting.com e-mail.mike@chspainting.com Related: How to help prevent exterior paint from fading 5 Tips For Choosing The Right Interior Paint in Scappoose, OR