Color the walls, ceiling, doors and radiators - we offer step-by-step actions and look forward to how much time it goes. For a month you can have much more so much more than it seems.
1 Paint the walls: from 4 to 7 days
Refresh the appearance of the room is the easiest way to use the updated beautiful walls. At the same time glue new wallpaper a little longer and more difficult than applying paint, especially if you have never been doing this. Therefore, to start, remove the old wallpapers. To do this quickly, in a couple of hours, use Lifehak: Curlee the sockets and switches with scotch and moisten the walls with a wet sponge or sponzerizer. After that, use the wallpaper on the place of the joints with a sharp spatula and pull on yourself. Pull with smooth motion so that the paper does not rush.
Old paint from the wall to clean longer, it will take one or two days. You can remove it mechanically, knocking down with a wall with a hammer and a chisel. Or put on the wall with paintwork coatings on the wall. It softening the coating and it can be easily removed by the spatula.
After that, the wall must be primed and stuck. The primer is needed so that the plaster then did not fall off the wall. It will dry for 6-10 hours. That is, to the stage of applying plaster it is better to move the next day.
The plaster can be plaster - it will dry faster, but is suitable only for small irregularities, its layer can be up to 50 mm. Cement can be applied to 10 cm layer, but it will dry it longer.
Next apply paint. On average, different types of paint dried in 12 hours, but it is better to give a freshly stained room to stand a couple of days, and only then add furniture.
2 Painting the ceiling: from 3 to 6 days
Painting the ceiling takes not so much time, but if you work alone, keep in mind that you need breaks, because it is difficult to work with constantly raised hands.
Within one day you can wash off the ceiling old bliss. Next, it is necessary to level the surface with plaster, pre-applying a layer of primer. Total it will take 2-3 days.
After that, you can apply a whitewash, giving her a day to dry before applying the second layer.
If you are shooting an apartment and you need a temporary repair, you can upgrade the ceiling faster and cheaper, without alignment - stick on it thick fliesline wallpaper and apply white paint into two layers.
3 Help the balcony with wooden lining: from 4 to 7 days
Vacation at home - the right time to upgrade the balcony. It will take several hours to clearing there things there, then you will need to remove old coatings. Depending material on it will leave 1-2 days.
Wooden lining will save time and do not align the walls and ceiling, and also additionally will warm the balcony.
The lining is fastened to a wooden frame of bars, with a screwdriver. On average, it takes 1-2 days. After installation on the board it is worth a protective varnish and give it to dry for 1-2 days.
If time left, you can paint the lining and even paint with stencils.
4 Paint the doors, windows and batteries: from 1 to 4 days
To refresh the interior and add bright colors to it, it is not necessary to do something complicated and expensive. You may have old windows, batteries and doors that cope with our tasks, just look ugly.
To paint the batteries, look for paint in the construction store with heat resistance from 80 ° C. If the battery has already been painted, you need to remove the old layer using a chemical solvent, very neat.
Painting windows or doors together with the removal of the old layer of paint will take no more than one day. But do not forget that during cleaning and drying the paint you do not sleep better in this room. Therefore, if you decide to paint all the windows in the apartment, do it in turn.
