DIY How To Paint a Room

Hey ya'll! Today we're talking close some other i of your FAQS: How to pigment a room. Painting a room seems truly slow to me now, but I hollo upwards how daunting it tin give the sack live if you've never done it before.
Let's non forget, 4 years ago I had never held a paintbrush, in addition to I didn't fifty-fifty know where to expose such a thing.
What's this Depot of the Homes you lot speak of?
And who is this 'Lowe' fellow? You hateful Rob?

So, needless to say, I've learned a few things through the years. And through all of my awkward trials in addition to errors, I eventually figured out the best agency to pigment a room. These days, I tin give the sack goal a room inwards close three hours tops, in addition to it normally looks pretty great.

It wasn't ever that way. But let's non dwell.

So, let's acquire started alongside the basic supplies you'll demand to pigment a room.

There are an insane amount of pigment supplies on the market. I've tried hence many unlike products, in addition to most of them acquire the project done. Listed below are my favorite items that I normally travel on each job, but to brand things easier on you. If you lot expose something that plant fifty-fifty better, allow a daughter know.

Paint tray
Tray liners (You tin give the sack also travel tinfoil or a plastic bag, but I honestly prefer the liners. They brand cleanup hence easy.)
Dap White Latex Caulk, caulk gun, and caulk finishing tool (Great for filling inwards the gaps betwixt the cut back in addition to walls)
Spackling paste (Great for filling holes inwards the drywall.)
Sanding sponge (Used to shine spackle afterwards it's dry...sandpaper also works, but I prefer using a sanding sponge.)
Drop cloth
Roller frame
Extension pole (great for tall walls in addition to ceilings)
Roller covers(for shine to semi-smooth surfaces)
Mini foam cut back roller (Great for smoothing brush marks if also paradigm trim.)
Wooster angled pigment brush (I won't pigment without mine.)
HANDy Paint Cup ( a pigment loving cup alongside a magnetic brush holder that makes edging inwards along the corners SO much easier)
Paint for walls (I normally travel Behr, Glidden, or Valspar paint. I travel apartment pigment for the walls in addition to semi-gloss pigment for the trim.)
Paint for cut back (I normally travel Behr Ultra White inwards a semi-gloss finish.)

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Once you lot direct maintain your supplies, it's fourth dimension to paint.
I've broken the procedure downward into 10 steps.
Not all of them are necessary for every job, hence if they don't apply to you, rejoice in addition to skip to the next.

1. Cover the flooring alongside dropcloths. Definitely don't skip this part. You volition fling pigment somewhere random, no affair how daintily you lot paint.
I prefer the plastic ones because they're cheap. Plus, let's live honest, every fourth dimension I purchase a existent i I tend to hack it upwards in addition to brand a headboard or something.

2. Fill whatever holes or imperfections inwards the drywall alongside spackling paste.

Wait for the spackle to dry, in addition to and then sand it fifty-fifty alongside the wall using your sanding sponge. That agency when you lot pigment over the patch, you lot won't fifty-fifty run across it in addition to it volition hold back practiced equally new.

Our walls were truly rhythm out upwards afterwards sanding off the stain debacle, hence nosotros had to repair tons of holes in addition to dents inwards the drywall before nosotros painted. While nosotros were at it, nosotros removed some other 1970's relic from the house, which had drib dead extra visible since knocking downward the hallway wall.
Remember the doorbell?

Well, Jesse turned off the electricity, did a fiddling digging, in addition to but decided to take the doorbell in addition to the broken smoke detector adjacent to it (There's some other i that truly plant on the ceiling.).

So, nosotros patched it using some drywall repair patches (affiliate link), which are splendid if you lot direct maintain large holes inwards the drywall. Then, nosotros but covered the patches alongside spackle, allow it dry, sanded it smooth, in addition to then painted over it.

Oops... lengthy hallway ramble. Moving on.

3. Remove all outlet plates. There was a fourth dimension when I used to but pigment around these things, but I live, I learn, I take outlet plates. All you lot demand is a screwdriver.

4. Make certain the walls are construct clean past times wiping off all the dust or grime alongside a damp cloth.

5. Use paintable caulk to fill upwards inwards whatever gaps betwixt the walls in addition to trim. Put the caulk inwards your caulk gun, cutting off the tip of the caulk subway alongside scissors, in addition to then mash it inwards a direct draw along the exceed of the cut back where the gap is. Then travel a rag to wipe upwards the excess. (You tin give the sack also travel a caulk finishing tool, but I normally but travel a rag.) This stride takes a fiddling extra time, but I never skip it. It but makes everything hold back hence seamless in addition to professional.
Here's a truly neat brusque video that shows how to caulk trim.
It's just how I do it.

6. If you lot direct maintain areas (like trimwork or ceilings) that you lot don't desire painted, you lot tin give the sack travel painter's record to forestall pigment from getting on those areas. Make certain to press firmly along the border of the record to forestall the pigment from haemorrhage underneath.
Once you're done painting, take the record acre the pigment is withal wet. If the pigment dries onto the record before you're done (or if you lot but forget), travel an exacto knife to cutting the record off. This volition forestall the record from pulling upwards your paint.

These days, I rarely travel painter's record anymore. My fiddling Wooster pigment brush is hence precise that I but don't demand it. It makes edging inwards around corners, ceilings, in addition to cut back hence easy, in addition to I never pigment without it these days.
It's close $5 in addition to worth every penny.

7. Prime if needed. I prefer to travel a pigment in addition to primer inwards i to relieve time, but if you're paradigm over whatever truly nighttime pigment colors, it's normally practiced to apply a coat of primer separately before you lot paint. If I direct maintain to do this step, I normally drib dead alongside Zinsser or Kilz. Just brand certain you lot acquire the H2O based kind, equally you'll most probable live using H2O based latex paint.

8. Start painting.
When it comes to paint, most of the fourth dimension I goal upwards using Behr Premium Plus Ultra inwards apartment for my walls. It's affordable in addition to provides neat coverage.
In all honesty, Home Depot is closer to my house. So, experience gratis to Valspar it upwards if you'd like. I direct maintain many times before, in addition to the results are but equally good. :)

When I start painting, I ever border inwards first. Edging inwards is when you lot pigment around the corners of the room alongside a paintbrush. It gets the pigment inwards all of the spots that the roller can't get, in addition to it creates a overnice construct clean draw along the ceiling, etc.

I travel my Wooster brush to pigment along the exceed border of the cut back (unless it's missing, similar correct at in i lawsuit afterwards the flooring was installed), ceiling, in addition to corners. I concur the brush the narrow way, opposite of the agency you lot would normally concur it, in addition to this gives me a truly overnice direct draw where I demand it.
Do yourself a favor in addition to acquire i of these fiddling Handy pigment cups. It has a fiddling handgrip on the outside, in addition to a fiddling magnet on the within that you lot tin give the sack attach your brush to.
I travel it every unmarried fourth dimension I paint.

Another thing I can't pigment without is my fiddling stepladder. One of Jesse's coworkers gave it to him when nosotros we got married in addition to I assume it went something similar this: 'Hey man, welcome to married life. You're a hubby now. Here's a stepladder.'

And I've seriously used it close 9,000 times since.

He was clearly a homo who knew what he was talking about.

9. After I'm done edging in, I travel my roller to embrace the residue of the walls. I seek to embrace close a 3-5 human foot department at a time, moving my roller dorsum in addition to forth until the department is fully covered inwards paint. I pigment inwards a 'M' displace to forestall roller marks. Keep a moisture edge, in addition to piece of work from dry out to wet. When the outset coat has dried, repeat alongside a minute coat if needed.

10. Once your pigment is dry, you're done. You tin give the sack construct clean upwards in addition to acquire dorsum to living a normal life.
Or you lot tin give the sack live similar me in addition to withal direct maintain 800 things to do.
Also, ignore my dorsum deck. It knows non what it do.

A authorities annotation close trim:
If you lot also demand to pigment your trim, you lot direct maintain 2 options: #1: take in addition to paint, or #2: Leave it on in addition to pigment it acre it's attached. You may hollo upwards that the outset fourth dimension I painted the theatre several years ago, I left the bulk of the cut back on the walls, in addition to but painted it acre it was attached. If you're doing it that way, you'll most probable desire to pigment your cut back before you lot pigment your walls, in addition to and then border inwards alongside your wall paint. It's but easier that way. You tin give the sack expose that tutorial here. In my electrical flow situation, nosotros had to take all of the cut back to install the floors, in addition to hence nosotros decided to supplant all of the 1970's cut back alongside to a greater extent than substantial trim. So, nosotros are currently inwards the procedure of installing in addition to paradigm the trim, afterwards nosotros painted. Expect me to weblog close that inwards 2017...or at to the lowest degree a few weeks.

And that, friends, is how you lot pigment a room. I promise this helps response some of the questions that you lot may have.

There's withal goose egg inwards whatever of our rooms correct at in i lawsuit (although nosotros did displace the couches upstairs this week. Miracle.), hence most of the rooms are but large empty boxes. But, if you're curious...I did include a few pics of the kitchen in addition to living room inwards the post earlier this calendar week inwards illustration you lot missed it.

I'll live dorsum presently to portion more!

In the meantime, I'll acquire out you lot alongside some Cheese.
She seems to truly appreciate my novel flooring registers/air vent things.
Just hold back at her fiddling foot caressing it.
Girl knows an upgrade when she run across it.