Interior Painting - 6 Ways To Screw Up Your Nice Home

When it comes to interior painting, being a professional house painter, I see so many mistakes homeowners make doing it themselves.

A new homeowner can buy a nice previously owned home that was well taken care of and screw the paint job up royally overnight. Here are some of the interior painting mistakes the make:

1.) The woodwork has a professional paint finish done in alkyd and the new people paint over it with latex. They not only do a lousy job (brush strokes going every which way) but they don't prime first which causes serious unsound paint that will peel.

2.) They paint over wallpaper which makes it so the old paper will never come off.

3.) The go and buy cheap paint from a hardware store.

4.) They cannot cut in a sharp edge at the ceiling line.

5.) The don't use color guides for choosing interior painting colors that show what colors go well together

6.) They use the wrong sheen level on the walls and woodwork as well

When it comes to interior painting everyone is so excited about painting their new home that they don't take all these things into consideration.