Painting Your Kitchen Cabinets With Less Mess in Palos Verdes Estates, CA

In looking to improve your home, you may want to look at how you will get your various rooms to look better — your kitchen, for example, can be improved just by painting the cabinets.

However, you should be well aware of the fact that in any painting project you will face some difficulty in avoiding making some mess as the process of painting can be a bit on the messy side as it were.

That being said, there are things you can do to avoid making more of a mess — and if you do some of these things you will find that the amount of mess you make can be decreased to as close to zero as possible.

Let’s have a look at some tips for painting your kitchen cabinets with less mess in Palos Verdes Estates, CA

1. Use Sandpaper For Smoother Surfaces

One thing that you’re going to be able to do in order to make sure that you have a less messy paint job is to first sand the surfaces that are going to be painted.

The reason that this makes for a less messy paint job overall is that when you have smooth surfaces, they are easier to paint and as such it’s better in terms of avoiding a mess.

2. Take Your Time When Painting

An issue that a lot of people will face when they’re thinking about painting their kitchen cabinets is that they just want to get their painting projects done in a relatively quick manner, so they will rush through the painting project.

The reason that painting your kitchen cabinets more slowly does well in terms of keeping down the mess that you will possibly make during the process is that by painting quickly, you are more likely to come to make painting errors which can be messy – and which usually have to be corrected before you move onto the next step in the painting process.

By painting more carefully, you are likely to have a better time in painting and will have fewer such mistakes.

3. Stir Paint, Do Not Shake

If you go into just about any paint store, you’re going to see the excellent way in which paint is mixed – they are put into large devices which agitate the cans of paint – shake them, in other words.

However, this is not to say that you should be shaking the paint in your home in an effort to get the same kind of results because you are not going to get them – you don’t have a professional paint mixer at home, after all.

The best thing you can do is to stir the paint that you use to paint your kitchen cabinets – ideally in a disposable bag, so that even when you are stirring you will not make any sort of mess if any paint gets out as it were.

4. Protect Surfaces

You will of course know that in any given situation in which you are painting, there is going to be some paint that will drip down – even if you are quite careful while you are painting.

However, if you should make the time to protect the surfaces near where you are going to be painting, you will find that even when the paint does drip down, you won’t have to worry about cleaning up the paint mess because it will be dripping down onto the things you put down to protect the surfaces.

It’s generally a good idea to make use of something along the lines of a drop cloth or a tarp in order to protect your floors from the painting of your kitchen cabinets.

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.

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