subject: Painting Your Garage [print this page] The most untreated space in a house is the garage. You might find your garage is messy when you enter the room. Garage is also an entrance for people when they will enter the house. In this case, they might enter the house through the garage more often than through the front door. Thus, it is very great to consider painting the garage to make it nicer than before.
Instead of making it nicer, painting will also give you the chance to clean this place so that it will be more organized. There are several things that you have to do when you want to paint this place.
As the other painting activities, the first thing that you have to do is making this place empty. In the process of making the room empty, you will be able to sort the things inside it. You would better throw things that you do not use or you can sell it so that you will get money from them. But, when you find the things that you think you will use them, store them in a safe place. Instead of sorting the things inside the garage, this is the time for you to clean this place. In this matter, you have to sweep the garage from any dirt, dust and solids by using a broom. You must also sweep the spider webs off. Make sure that you sweep all part of garage floor, ceiling and walls. You can also apply a certain power washer to get better result of cleaning that you do.
After cleaning the garage, you have to prepare everything before you start painting so that it will be very easy for you. You have to choose the correct paint that you will apply to the garage walls and ceiling. For you who have cinder block for the walls of your garage, you should better apply some coats of paint. This is because those types of wall will just absorb the paint such drinking.
After you have finished with walls and ceiling, start working on the floor. For the garage floor, there are many options of paint that you can choose. If your garage floor is cement floor, choose the paint that is suitable for this type of floor. The key is that you have to make sure that the paint is suitable for the floor of your garage.
However, you have to allow the paint to dry before you move the goods back to the garage that you have painted. To make it more organize, buy some shelves to store the goods that you have. After everything is set, make sure that you will always make it tidy so that you can appreciate your work. This will be an amazing thing for you to enter the house through a clean and tidy garage.
