Painting the living room
With these tips it’s really easy
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Do you need a new lease of life in your apartment, but don’t want to turn everything upside down? How about a new wall color? We’ll now tell you how you can paint your living room without having to complete painting training.
You love your apartment, yours Furniture and decorative treasures? But do you somehow feel like a change? No problem. With a little preparation and a few supplies, you can give your home a small upgrade. How? You could just paint your living room.
No matter whether you decide on a new color, classic, clean white or a refresh of the previous color – with a few brush strokes your home will shine in a new splendor in no time.
Painting the living room: You need these utensils
If you want to paint your living room, you don’t need any equipment like a professional. You’ve probably accumulated a lot of things over the years at home anyway. We have so that you can quickly check what you already have in the basement or storage room and what you still need to get a small checklist compiled for you:
- Wall paint your choice
- Paint brush for edges and corners
- Paint roller with scraper grid
- foil or Painter’s fleece for the ground
- Duct tape / Masking tape
- If necessary, foil to cover furniture
- If necessary, an old whisk/wooden stick to stir the paint
The preparations
As is often the case in life, painting your living room requires good preparation. Then the painting itself is not only quick, but also doesn’t cause any major difficulties.
First of all, you make sure that your furniture, your floor and your decorations are not damaged. Before painting, clear out your living room as much as possible and get as much out of the room as possible. So you don’t just bring yours Treasure in safetybut also make sure that you paint the living room later enough space have to work.
Everything that needs to remain in the room should then be covered well with foil or tarpaulin. If necessary, you can also tape the film down with masking tape so that it doesn’t accidentally slip. Also the You should cover a large area of the floor. If you are experienced and choose a fairly solid wall color (so that it won’t splash all over the room), you can also just lay a wide strip along the wall with foil.
Otherwise, we recommend that you cover the entire floor before you start painting the living room. Good side effect: If you cover the entire living room, you can move around the room without worrying – without worrying about getting paint under your soles, which you might then spread throughout the room.
Once you have protected your furniture and floor, it’s best to take a look at light switches, sockets, etc. These can often be easily unscrewed, which makes painting later easier and cleaner. Important: Remember to turn off the power before using electrical outlets etc. work.
You should pay attention to this when painting your living room
Everything secured? Everything taped or covered? Excellent! Then you can actually start. Grab a brush, roller and Color and give your living room a new look by painting.
If you are unsure whether you can achieve the result you want, the following tips may help you:
- Even if it is the annoying part of the overall project – Don’t forego thorough masking of edges and the ceiling. The neater and more precisely you work here, the easier and cleaner the painting will be.
- Ideally, yours will need walls no preparatory work. However, you should still do it undergo a check: Does the wallpaper still hold up? Are there cracks in the walls? Do areas need to be repaired first?
- Make sure the roller (or brush) has a good amount of paint. The roller should be well soaked, but not absorbed too much paint.
- It’s best to start with the corners and edgesby using this paint with a brush. This ensures clean edges and ensures that you get even the small angles.
- When painting the larger areas with a paint roller, be careful if possible to draw even paths from top to bottom and not to work back and forth. This will prevent you from distributing the color unevenly and with varying degrees of lushness.
- Depending on what the wall color looks like so far (lighter or darker than the new color), you may need to paint your living room more than once. This also depends on the opacity of the color.
- If necessary, get good advice from the hardware store when it comes to choosing your color. Do you want to? white, go for a slightly more expensive product. This way you can avoid color or shadows showing through without having to paint a second time.
- Before you start a second coat of paint, let the paint dry thoroughly.
- We recommend removing adhesive strips on edges etc. as soon as possible. If you wait too long and the paint has dried in the meantime, you run the risk of making a small flaw in your work afterwards. With the paint on the masking tape bonded to the paint on the wall, you could potentially tear off the paint on the wall too. Unfortunately, your effort to get clean edges would have been in vain.
Which color suits the living room?
If you want to paint the walls in your living room in color, you can choose from the entire color spectrum to suit your taste. The only important thing when choosing a color is to pay attention to the size of the room. Smaller rooms tend to be made even smaller by colors that are too dark. If you still want to go for a strong tone, you could, for example, only design one wall in color and the remaining walls in white. Since the selection is really huge, we would like to recommend a few particularly beautiful colors or color families to you.
We recommend these tones if you want to paint your living room:
- muted colors such as gray, creamy white, gray-green or gray-blue, taupe
- Pastel tones such as rosé, reed green, mint green, lemon
- strong colors such as moss green, berry, anthracite, fir green, nougat, petrol
Color techniques, accents, patterns – you have these design options
Painting a living room can be a practical way to simply add a fresh color to the wall. But it can also become a creative project. You can design your walls individually using different techniques, patterns or accents. We have put together a few nice examples for you.
A few more tips to finish
- Color quantity: Before purchasing paint, calculate your consumption as accurately as possible. Think about whether you need to paint once or twice and also plan for small touch-ups. Of course, you don’t want to have buckets of paint left over – but you also don’t want to run out of wall paint while painting.
- Sustainability: Wash your brushes and rollers thoroughly after use. Then you can use them a second or third time if you want to redesign or refresh other rooms.
- Precision: Do you attach great importance to precision and exact color edges? Then mask the edges with masking tape, lightly brush white paint over the masking tape within the later colored area and let the paint dry thoroughly. This ensures that the white paint runs under any gaps between the masking tape and the wall – and “clogs up”. This means the bright paint has no chance of running underneath later.
Have you developed a taste for painting the living room and want to start a new project in your apartment? Then we have other great tips if you want to set up your study or design your rooms in boho style.