In both cases they might use about the same amount of materials and paint.
Should you bid floor space or wall space for painting.
In either case there are problems with this approach.
Open floor plans bring a lot of benefits the most appreciated of all being the fact that they visually increase the spaciousness of an area and allow us to make the most of our homes.
Take the new number and measure that distance above the 57 inch mark.
I agree that measuring the floor space only would make your estimate inaccurate.
One home has a lot more detail than the other home.
You could loose allot of money bidding like that.
Still telling apart the different zones that make up an open space id often difficult without the usual wall barriers.
If you re hanging a painting drawing print or any other artwork on the wall over a piece of furniture such as a bed or sofa look for artworks that are between 65 percent and 85 percent of the furniture s total width.
But that s what paint is for.
You know your square footage of a room however.
As some wall will be higher than 8 feet.
This is where the hanger should be placed so mark this spot.
Do you know how long it takes you to paint 200 square feet of wall space.
Imagine you have 2 homes that are both 2500 square feet.
A 10 10 8 room would be a different price from a 10 10 12.
Cutting in and rolling.
I only give a bid for the floor footage after seeing the plans for the homes.
As one would require more prep more labor and more paint.
30 feet of chair rail.
If you know your production rates you can bid by square footage.
However some painting contractors especially if giving an estimate rather than a firm bid will base it on square footage of the room or house obviously at a higher price than if it were for actual painting surface area because in a normal house the painting surface runs roughly a multiple of 1 to 2 times the real estate square footage for exterior commonly around 1 5x and usually in the 2 to 5 times footprint square footage for interior walls commonly around a multiple of 3 4.
Unless of course you are painting the floors with porch floor paint then that makes sense.
With the mouly it would be 7 inches above the 57 inch mark meaning the artwork will actually hang 64 inches from the floor.
Anything larger will make your furniture look comically small and anything smaller will leave too much blank space.
Robertpaint if you bid per floor area you are one hurtin dude.