How Much Paint Do I Need For Decorating The House?
Tips on Decorating Before You Start
There are many reasons why you may decide to change the look and feel of your home, it might be because you’ve just moved in and want to stamp your own identity upon the interior with a whole new scheme of paint colours, or alternatively you may just fancy a total change in mood.
Before you even start to consider which emulsion paint you want or which paint rollers to buy, you need to put together a simple plan by scoping out your project. Make a note of which interior rooms, doors, windows and any exterior spaces you want to decorate. This will give you an idea of the size of your project which can then be broken down easily into bite-size pieces, usually working from room to room.
Getting Ideas for Decorating Your Home
To find the right look for your home, you need to think about how the different spaces and existing furnishings work together, the shapes of the rooms, where there is light and dark and colours of existing furnishings or flooring. The last thing you want to do is to waste a whole load of paint and wallpaper decorating without having done any planning and then for all the colours to clash when you finally put the furniture and soft furnishings back in the room. With this in mind you should go about researching ‘the look’ you want and find decorating ideas for the rooms that complement existing soft furnishings – maybe through building a scrapbook of interiors or use online tools such the Homebase Decorating Tool to work out your colour scheme.
Once you have decided on the look you want, you should have an idea on which walls and fittings will have certain colours or finishes – who knows you might decide against paint and give your living room wallpaper instead.
Don’t Run Out Of Paint
How much paint for walls do you need to complete your decorating? The quantity of paint required to decorate your walls can depend on many factors including the type of paint, the brand and the wall surface. Knowing these quantities will help you to price-up your home decorating project so Homebase have designed a tool to help you calculate the quantity of paint required.
Your first step should be to measure all the wall and ceiling spaces you plan to decorate to know roughly the width and length of each wall for each different colour you will be using. You can then enter these measurements into the Homebase Paint Calculator to work out the quantities required for each area and colour of paint. Remember to count the number of doors and know approximate window sizes as the calculator takes these spaces into consideration to provide you with an overall estimate of how much paint you need to cover the wall areas.
Which Brand of Paint to Choose
Each brand usually has its own unique colour schemes of different shades in colour and interior design ideas or even speciality – such as paint for different purposes like bathroom paint. With careful research into ‘the look’ of your home you will be able to compare colours and finishes from different brands to find the ones that suit your home design ideas the best. It is highly advisable that you buy testers so you can colour small sections of your wall to check how it looks especially as paint colours can change slightly when they dry.
Before you select your desired brand of paint, be it Dulux Paint, Crown Paint or even the classic range from Farrow & Ball – make sure you use the Homebase Paint Calculator to be able to estimate your paint requirements for the job saving you a few pennies and ensuring you don’t run out of paint!
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