“Oh, I know I should be home weeding the garden and mopping the floors or maybe doing something normal like filling up the gas tank, but I really just like to go dig through other peoples old smelly junk.
So last week I started tackling some of the ceilings in our house and it was actually a really pleasant and easy experience.I thought I’d share my tips today so you can join in on the fun if your ceilings need a little love too.. Scrape, patch and repair only where necessary.
Go ahead and scrape off anything that’s hanging down off of your ceiling, and be sure to clean your ceilings well before starting, but don’t feel like you need to sand the whole thing down, mud the whole thing, and sand it all down again to do a “good job”.Honestly, no one’s going to notice if there are slight imperfections in your ceiling.They’re expecting it to be a plain white ceiling and unless there’s anything (like on mine) drawing their attention to it, they won’t notice.
They’ll just notice that your room feels nice and clean and fresh and they won’t be looking for where you messed up, so go easy on yourself!It’s going to look awesome.. Don’t tackle the job on really hot days or in super high humidity.
Painting above your head like that already means you’re going to be more prone to drips than usual, and when you paint in really high heat or humidity, the paint tends to thin out and drip more easily.
Painting a ceiling on those days is just a recipe for disaster that you do not need to be serving to yourself..It’s mostly just cut to the exact size so it wedges in between the other two pieces of vertical molding.. All the other pieces that need to go up involve me learning how to use new power tools.
I have no doubt that I can.The problem is that to figure all that out and then get working and get some installation going on would take pretty much a whole day.
And then I think I’d feel guilty for all of the other things I’d miss getting done during that time.. Yup, I over-think things..So I haven’t yet.