5 Hallway Ceiling Painting Mistakes To Avoid in Palos Verdes Estates, CA

You have a hallway, and you want it to look its best — but when you’re thinking about how to do this, what are you thinking in terms of practical projects that might do the trick?

You might want to, for example, decorate the walls of the hall, or even paint them — but would you consider painting the ceiling?

Indeed, the ceiling is an important part of your hall as far as aesthetics, even insofar as it is rarely given more than a brief glance at any given time – yet when people are looking to paint their ceiling, they will often make some pretty critical mistakes in doing so.

Of course, if you are well aware of the mistakes that can be made, you can take steps to avoid them in advance and so make for an overall better painting project.

Let’s now look at and consider five hallway ceiling painting mistakes to avoid in Palos Verdes Estates, CA

1. Underestimating Time Requirement

One of the big issues with painting your ceiling is that you might look up there and think about how relatively little surface there is to be painted and sort of getting the notion in your mind that it is not going to be a very lengthy project, time wise.

This is not correct, however – and you are going to find that you will be vastly overwhelmed if you just jump into the painting project without first realizing how long it is going to take.

2. Thinking The Color Choices Are Limited

When you’re looking to paint your ceiling, it’s quite possible that you’re going to think that you are limited as far as colors go – that you have to paint the ceiling some shade of white because it is after all the ceiling.

You don’t have to limit yourself to this, however – your only limits as far as the ceiling goes are your imagination – so if you want to have a purple ceiling you can certainly do that!

3. Using An Inexpensive Paint Roller

A seemingly okay thing for you to do when you’re painting your hall ceiling is to make use of a more inexpensive paint roller — after all, any painting project is going to cost you a bit of money and so you might want to cut the cost anyway you can.

However, what you may not realize is that by making use of an inexpensive paint roller you’re going to make the painting project a bit more difficult and on top of that parts of the roller might even come apart and stick themselves in the paint as you are painting, making for a rather unpleasant mess — skip this by going for a moderately priced paint roller instead.

4. Using An Overly Long Telescoping Handle

In trying to get your paint brush and roller to the ceiling, you are going to need to either bring yourself up to the ceiling or make use of a telescoping handle to bring the roller to the ceiling.

When you use a telescoping handle, remember that the more you have in the handle, the more it is going to be difficult to use and so you should use a telescoping handle that is meant for approximately the height of your ceiling and not too much more.

5. Not Protecting Surfaces

Lastly, remember that when you paint your ceiling, you are going to have to make sure that you make the time to protect surfaces that aren’t getting painted.

This is because even the best paint that doesn’t drip will drip to some extent, so you have to do things like put down protective drop cloths to prevent paint from getting on the floor and other areas.

Cooley Brothers Painting is a locally owned, owner-operated, family business in Torrance, California. Call the office at 310-378-4575 or email us: info@cooleybrothers.com. You can also use our contact page to reach us.

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