What You Will Need to Repaint Your Bedroom

For this time, you have decided to swap professions and play the painter. It’s about your most treasured room, the bedroom. The coat of paint on the walls is still the one you found when you bought the house. You did not feel you needed to change the color shade, but now you do. Yes, it’s time for a makeover! “So what will I require?”

Here’s your essential list of paraphernalia.

1. An Extra Pair of Hands

When you repaint your bedroom, you do not want any stray paint drops falling on your furniture. Take the bed, for example. Who would want their cozy beddings spoilt with paint? And even if you stripped the mattress of the beddings, you still wouldn’t admire an extra color spot on it, or would you?

 

Move all your furniture, wall features, and any other stuff to the center of the room. When you move your furniture, you do not want to drag it and leave scratches on the floor. An extra pair of hands comes in handy.

2. Cloth, Paper and Masking Tape

Even with your furniture at the middle of the room, paint drops could accidently find their way to the furniture.

 

Use a plastic cloth to protect your stuff. You may consider brown paper as an alternative. If you do, ensure to firm the edges on the floor with masking tape. Use brown paper to protect your floor from paint stains.

 

Masking tape is your option for protecting the trims of windows, doors, ceiling, and any inbuilt furniture from paint marks.

3. Brush, Roller or Sprayer

If you are repainting your bedroom, it is because you want to give it a finer look than it has now.

Choose the most appropriate painting tool. Spray painting can be messy. A roller will do a neat job on the walls and the brush comes in handy for the corners.

4. Choice Paint and Primer

What if your bedroom smelled like a paint factory for a month? You would have to seek refuge in another room and maybe sleep on a couch. “We sleep best on our bed” is not a fairy tale.

If you do not desire to paint your room and then vacate it, go for quality paint which is low-odor and low on VOCs. Quality paint is also about the sheen it creates on your wall and, to fit your taste, an element of color.

 

Find a paint purchasing guide and check the top ranking brands. Whatever brand you choose, latex paint gives a better sheen and finish to your bedroom compared to oil paint.

5. A Large Bucket

If you desire to see the same color and sheen when you turn from one side of the bed to the other, mix the paint in a big bucket before painting your walls.

6. An Aluminum Folding Ladder

Resist the temptation of standing on a chair or stool to do your painting. A middle size aluminum ladder is safer and can serve other household purposes in the future. The medium size is just right for any average height bedroom wall.

Consider Improvising

You now have the essentials for your bedroom painting task. Other extra equipment may be improvised from the house. For example, you may use a laundry basin or bucket lid in place of a paint tray. Your job will be equally neat as long as you have the 6 essentials listed above.