Painting the interior of your home is not as critical as protecting the exterior paint against the elements, but it is still very important. Interior paint is what makes your home look clean and refreshed and gives it a welcoming atmosphere. Whether your style could be described as traditional, contemporary, modern or any other, interior paint is one of the most important keys to achieve that look.
Below are four of the main reasons you may need to have your home’s interior repainted.
1. Over time, interior paint begins to look more aged and shows wear and tear. Hand prints, smudges, nicks, scrapes and nail holes all make your interior paint less attractive. Although these are not threats to the foundation of your home, they are eye-catching and make the rooms seem less exceptional.
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2. Cracking and peeling paint on the window sills is also a sign it is time to repaint. In most cases, this is caused by one of two possible problems. First, there is moisture coming from the window and accumulating on the sill. Second, consistent exposure to sun is causing the paint to dry and crack. Either of these could create long-term damage to the wood if they are not noticed and remedied soon.
3. It is also a good idea to pay attention to the type of paint used in each room. For example, oil-based paint can cause issues when used on bathroom ceilings. Moisture from showers will collect on the ceiling and begin to drip down the walls leaving water marks and drip lines over time. It is best to use flat latex paint that absorbs some of that moisture. A ceiling vent is also a good way to combat this problem. Because of its durability, oil-based paints are best for areas like trim, doors, windows, crown molding and cabinets.
4. Lastly, if you plan on selling your home or having the value re-assessed, a paint job will often increase the perceived value. Simply patching nail holes and applying a fresh coat of neutral-colored paint will give your home that crisp, clean feeling that will help welcome in buyers.
In my section today of “WHAT INTERIOR HOUSE PAINT GOES WHERE AND WHY” we’ll look at home painting your kitchens and wet areas. Hygiene is the most important number 1 rule: Because of the amount of moisture and airborne grease generated by cooking, washing up and showers and the like, every surface must be easy to clean. Check it out, are yours? The domestic or household kitchen needs to be kept hygienic and you still need it very washable.
Over the years the demand for finishes in kitchens and wet areas has changed slightly. Satin acrylic finishes were always used, now the most popular applied is a good quality low sheen. In my opinion for washing and repelling grease when painting kitchens you can’t go past the satin acrylic for kitchen paint. It’s not as porous as low sheen, in fact looking along a wall painted in satin gives you the impression there’s a good thick but very smooth finish and easy on the eye presentation. I just love the look of it and its beautiful to apply! It just slides off your roller effortlessly.
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In saying that I do still use low sheen in some circumstances, for instance brand new homes that I have to paint for a builder, because that’s what the specs demand. If it was my house I would go the satin option for my bathroom paint because I like my showers really hot and steamy.
But sometimes kitchens are very much part of the living areas and it’s hard to cut the wall off with two different types of paint. In this situation use low sheen, that’s quite ok. They’re both as good as each other but satin definitely has the edge, horses for courses as they say.
Also nowadays there is a trend away from clinical operating theater kitchens, where beautiful stainless steel and two pack finish cupboards and doors occupy the kitchen or lots of natural timbers and curtains instead of blinds over windows are now very widely used in the modern home. One thing sticks out in relation to these materials, they are all very washable and can be kept clean easily. The same goes with bathrooms and the laundry, they all have surfaces that are easily cleaned, that’s why when you need to go with the satin option. You won’t regret it.
So I hope I’ve helped you out with more good information on what interior house paint to use for your kitchens and wet areas. Don’t forget if you’ve got a question you need answered that I haven’t yet covered drop me a line. I have a wealth of experience under my belt for and I’m hanging to help you out and solve your dramas. That’s what I’m here for and to put a bit of colour in your life so to speak HA……….Catch ya….
Lines, actually play a significant role in bathroom decor. You need to consider the outer shape of the bathroom countertop, mirror, windows, etc. to match their lines with each other. Avoid any wavy outer lines, as they don’t reflect the modern bathroom design.
When it comes to selecting lines you can pick or emphasize on straight horizontal lines or ovals. The horizontal straight lines will give a bold and clean look, while picking or incorporating oval shapes in the bathroom will give a harmonious more subtler look. You can go with a rectangular countertop, a square or rectangular sink, large horizontal mirror, etc. to add straight horizontal lines to your bathroom. If you wish to go with the oval shapes, then align a oval shaped window sill, mirror, bathtub, curved countertop, etc. to match this scheme.
Try to be minimalistic, when it comes to color. Go with two color schemes, and pick white and any other color for modern bathroom design ideas for small spaces. For example light aqua with white, white with green bamboo plants, white walls with wooden elements, white with soft green, etc. If you have a large bathroom then go with some darker shades, you can go with grays, blacks, reds, purples, etc. to decorate a large modern bathroom.
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Avoid using any patterns if you have a small bathroom, as this might close up the space. However, if you have a medium sized or large sized bathroom, then you can consider painting ceiling, or one of the walls, with some interior paint designs, or use titles which have designs on them. If you are thinking of decorating your bathroom in a mid century modern bathroom design, then you can add some more patterns to the bathroom.
Lighting plays a very important role, and modern small bathroom design reflect a well lit place. Ceiling white or off white lights work best for bathroom lighting, to open up a small space you can keep few light fixtures like a small lamp on the countertop. If you have a large bathroom, then you can install small ceiling lights of any particular color, and add few colored light fixtures to add to the ambiance. To increase the amount of natural light in the bathroom, you can consider installing a skylight.
Remember, for a modern bathroom design, less is more. Hence, use less number of items to decorate the space. If you have small bathroom, then keep least number items on the countertop, a white colored bright bathroom with two lucky bamboo plants and few wooden mats are enough as decor. Also, you can install hanging bathroom sinks instead of the pedestal sink. Similarly, use elements in the bathroom which have a more compact design.
Again, it is important to keep the bathroom uncluttered, so that the clean lines in the bathroom are maintained and the bathroom looks inviting. Also, this will make the job of bathroom cleaning easier. Hence, countertops with shelves underneath them are a great idea to store the things you need in the bathroom, and to maintain an uncluttered space. You can also install bathroom cabinets that have mirror, and install them in front of the sink to keep toothpaste, brush and other stuff to keep the bathroom uncluttered. If you have a very small bathroom, then you can keep an open wooden shelf just outside the bathroom, to pick up the stuff you need while using the bathroom.
I Googled and searched forums for ages, and still didn’t have all the answers for completing the task that awaited me. I purchased a manufactured home recently, but almost didn’t, mainly because of those ugly seams they run up and down the walls of the home.
Still, I understood this to be part of the reason that manufactured homes are so cheap. It makes sense: If all you have to do is staple seams over gaps in the sheetrock, then your labor costs will be drastically lower. It is also highly probable that the walls will look like garbage (No offense to those who own trailers, but c’mon, the walls don’t nearly compare to a stick built home).
Regardless of the situation, you will be the beneficiary of my vast experience in actually doing the work, on some 3-7 odd rooms. I really wish that this method allowed pictures, but hey, nothing’s perfect.
First, you need to rip off the seams. I recommend a spackling knife for this endeavor. Insert the spackling knife into the joint, then use the handle as a pry bar, and pull it out towards you. This will loosen the hold that the nails have on the seam. Repeat until nearly half of the seam has been dislodged. After this, you should be able to pull the rest of it off. Pull the seam from bottom to top, and watch out for any nails still lodged in the seam. I recommend immediate disposal of the offending material.
Great. Now you should be looking at two sheets of trailer board. I would call it sheetrock, but it technically is nothing of the sort. It is less thick, and also has vinyl applied to the surface. The nail heads/staples will still be visible, so you will need to pound them down into the board, using a hammer. Run the spackling knife over the area, to make sure that the nails will not catch it, and keep it from doing its work.
Now, you should be staring at a gap roughly 1/8th – 1/4 of an inch in width. There are two options that you can take in addressing this gap:
1. You can go with the traditional method of laying down sheetrock mud, paper tape, and then another layer of mud, or…
2. You can get vinyl mesh tape, and use it to span the gap. Afterwards, you can spread vinyl spackling compound over the tape to finish the seam.
For the greatest simplicity, we will be using the vinyl tape method here. This stuff comes 300 feet to a roll at your local home improvement store, and will most likely be available in the paint aisle of your home improvement store. It will be yellow, and layed out in grid. It’s basically yellow tape with a large grid of squares in it. The folks at your home improvement store will know what to give you, should you not have an understanding of what I am talking about.
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Once you have the tape, run it it from the top of the seam, all the way to the bottom, making sure there is around 50% of the tape on either side of the seam. Then, load up a spackling/putty knife with good amount of vinyl spackle. The next step will take a bit of practice. Using steady pressure, run the putty knife from the top, to the bottom of the seam. Make sure the spackle is thin enough that you can still see the yellow color of the tape, and thick enough to fill in the grids and the seams. It may take up to three passes of the knife to get it to this thickness. Just be patient.
If you have a deep gap, that is larger than 1/4 of an inch, fill the gap with spackle, then place vinyl tape over that, with another layer of spackle following. This is highly necessary to prevent bubbling of the spackle, and to keep a sinkhole from developing in the spackle.
Now, let the compound dry, according to the directions on the spackle bucket. Yes, you need a spackle *bucket*, not one of those wimpy 8 oz. containers. Otherwise, you will need to make runs to Home Depot more frequently than you expected.
When things are fully dry, start your sanding. I recommend starting with 120 grit sandpaper, and by all means, buy a sanding block. Do not us a power sander for this task, as it will take far too much off the spackle off, and fray the vinyl tape. I know this from experience. Try to make the a gradual transition, leaving just enough dried spackle to cover the gap. The spackle should be smooth to the touch, and not be so heavy that you can distinguish where the wall starts and the seam begins. It takes a little practice to get things right, so take your time.
A note about corners: If you attempt a confrontation of the corners where the boards meet, you will need 2 specialized tools. People who deal with sheetrock on a regular basis have an “inner” and “outer” corner tool, to help them deal with the problems that they provide. They’re basically right angles on a handle. If my experience is indicative of what yours will be, these tools will be located near the sheetrock and lumber, rather than the paint/spackle/mudding area. These tools will be more than worth the USD you’ll spend to acquire them. Same rules apply for the corners as the straight seams.
After you get done, apply 2 coats or so of primer to the wall to seal things up. After the first coat dries, check for any place where you can see th grid pattern of the tape. Apply a thin coat of spackle in the tiny holes, let it dry for an hour or so, and then apply the second coat of primer. For what it is worth, I prefer Bullseye 1-2-3 to Kilz, as it seems to cover better. Bullseye is more expensive, but you can occasionally get by with a single coat. Kilz is far more watery, and applies white, rather than Bullseye, which applies grayish.
A word about wallpaper: Resist the urge to strip the wallpaper from your manufactured home. Your wallpaper and wallboard were put together in one piece. Should you attempt to strip the wallpaper off, you may well take half your wallboard off with it. No amount of spackle will save you at that point. Prime it, and leave it alone. It will take the paint perfectly, and you won’t have to pay a professional to come in and fix your horrible mistake.
Put on your favorite color of paint, and then dare your friends to say you live in a trailer. They’ll still say it, but you won’t care, as the improvement will be so drastic. I have spent less than 0 on supplies for the spackling of my entire house(excluding paint) and the difference is incredible.
As a closing thought, please hear my plea. Do not cheap out the paint. Buy Benjamin Moore. It’s pricey, but it covers extraordinarily well, and lasts a long time. I’ve talked to painters, read their comments on forums and discussion boards, and checked things out for myself. Don’t buy paint from Lowe’s or Home Depot. Get it direct from Ben Moore, and you will be happy for many years to come.
Now, get ready, it’s more work than you think, but also more rewarding. I wish you nothing but success, and if you fail…well, I’ll have to assume you didn’t read the directions well enough…;).
Good luck.
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Painting woodwork is probably the most fiddly and time consuming part of . There is a lot to consider and a lot of preparation involved with your diy home painting. What I mean by woodwork are things like doors, frames, skirtings and the like. Now to the five biggest common mistakes when your woodwork.
The first thing people think of is that the existing coat of paint unless your painting over varnishes or polyurethanes has to be taken back to bare wood or timber. This is not always the case. Do this only if it has badly broken down. If you’re just changing colour and generally painting, a good solid rub down with sandpaper will do the trick.
Not undercoating with the correct product. An undercoat is designed to bind and seal the surface back to give you a neutral plane to work with,an undercoat can be called a platform builder.
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Not using good quality paints and materials and I’m talking about finish coats now. Whether it be gloss enamel, satin or semi gloss good quality is always the best option. Buying the you bute special bonza paints that has probably been mixed in a high school science lab is NOT COOL MAN. Good quality enamels and let’s not forget water based and environmentally produced paints and glosses are your best bet. Remember this! {quality products produce quality workmanship.}
The most crucial common mistake when your woodwork is a bad quality BRUSH. The bottom line is, if your willing to use a broken stick as your finishing brush, expect your finish product to look like #!@$ also. A brush with a beautiful soft bristle and these days they make good quality synthetic ones that can handle the miles quite well, this is your best option, and these are the only types of brushes I use these days whether it be for oil or water based paints. For the beginner I suggest a 63 mm sashcutter. This type and size brush will cover all your bases.
So last but not least the number 5 mistake that people make when woodwork is not forgetting steps 1 to 4. You have to have a system when doing woodwork then you can’t go wrong. Prepare, undercoat and do your finish work, but introduce a system for yourself and keep repeating it. This way you’re guaranteed not to forget things and make mistakes.
Remember home painting is all about repetition and doing the same job over and over again, you do this and you’ll rip through your work with ease. Trust these diy painting tips helped you with your house painting. Catch guys and remember………..
Selecting paint colors for your house is not just tough, it’s an intimidating process. Pick out dull or bold colors or colors that do not complement your home exterior may upset the overall appearance of your home as well as overwhelm your neighbors. It’s a fact that paint colors of your home exterior should highlight specific features of the house. Adept use of color can instantly cover up architecture and design flaws, improve your curb appeal, and raise the ante of your home value.
There are no easy ways to find that magical color combination. But you can certainly follow these paint color tips to make sure that your home is paint-cloaked and splashed just right.
If you are deciding on painting an older home, like a Victorian house, perhaps you’ll want to use a more age-appropriate scheme to go with the architecture. If you are in doubt of your painting skills, you can hire a professional to study old paint chips and re-create the original design, style, and color. Historic color charts are also your best bet when painting an old home. Choose from fitting shades that might have been painted at the time and year that your house was built.
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While standing apart from the crowd may get you noticed from time to time and ignite that non-conformist side of yours, being totally different in terms of structure and color can mightily disconcert the surrounding neighborhood. Also, neighbors can dish advice about paint color ideas but never copy the style and color of your neighbor’s. Pick out colors that make your house unique without clashing with nearby houses and buildings.
Survey your entire property and you will notice that the landscape surrounding your home is abundant with color ideas. Your garden can inspire wonderful color combinations. Just look at the growing trees and shrubbery which may propose a nature’s palette of browns and greens. If you live near the shore or have a waterfront home, the beach setting hints at vivid blues, corals, and azures.
Look at a painter’s perspective and see that your house can be a canvas. However, colors are previously established so you need to ensure that new coats of paint have to harmonize with the roof, even if it does not match exactly.
Surely, your home has some features that will not be dabbed with paint. Vinyl windows, brick walls, natural hardwood doors, railings, and even steps have their own specific colors. However, if you are satisfied with their existing colors, you can select a color scheme that tones with colors that are already present in your home.
It may appear hilarious to smother your entire house with paint depending on colors and patterns of the items seen in your kitchen or living room. But take note that this kind of approach will serve you well in finding colors to match your house exterior. The color of the furnishings allows you to see what matches with your interior. Then, the interior paint influences outside colors as well.
Based on the intricacy, structure, and size of your house, you may opt for different color schemes. You should also choose proper color accents for doors, windows, moldings, shutters, columns, brackets, or porch decks. Do not go overboard with plenty of colors, just pick the ones you think are rightfully appropriate for your home’s exterior. Your goal is to make your house more interesting and appealing with fresh coats of paint all blending together very well.
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If t??r? ?? ??? painting t??t needs t? b? done, ?t ??? b? done very affordably ??? ??? add a lot ?f value t? ???r Westfield, N?w Jersey home. Here ?r? a few tips t? keep ?? mind w??? ??? need a paint job done.
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If ??? ???? a red dining room, consider neutralizing ?t w?t? ??t??r a gray ?r beige color. Neutral colors ???? ???? a property look best ?? photographs online, w???? ?? w??r? potential buyers ?ft?? first m?k? t?? ???????? t? look ?t a house ?r condo ?? person.
F?r t?? exterior, ?f t?? outside ?f t?? home needs painting, find a color t??t blends ?? easily w?t? t?? ?t??r colors ?f homes ?? t?? street. T??? w??? raise t?? curb appeal ?f ???r home substantially.
#2 – F????? t?? painting before ??? showings ?r? scheduled
It w??? b? a b?? turn-?ff t? anytpotential buyer t? see ?? incomplete paint job. Add t? t??t ??? tools t??t ?r? left out f?r t?? job ??? ??? w??? ???? ???r buyers leaving ?? a ??rr?. M?k? sure t??t t?? job ?? one hundred percent complete before scheduling ??? showings.
#3 – Seek professional advice
If ??? ?r? completely lost ?? t? w??t colors t? ?????? ??? ?????t envision ??w t?? job w??? appear w??? f???????, ??? ??? hire a professional designer f?r a q???k (??? usually, free) consultation. T??r? ?r? qualified designers t??t w??? come t? ???r home f?r ?? hour ??? t??? ??? t?? exact shades ?f color ??? ?????? ??? t? keep t?? color scheme neutral, light ??? calming. It ?? a small investment towards a higher selling price f?r ???r home, ??? a q???k?r sale.
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A quick sale is what every home owner hopes for every time they put their home on the market. In the current real estate industry, everything that you can do to help your home prepare for a quick sale should be done. Believe it or not painting your home for a quick sale is a step in the right direction.
Selling your home in order to purchase a new home is great. The faster you can sell it the better. Staging your home is a way of preparing your home in order to help sell it faster. Staging your home is making changes to your home simply for the point in fact of making it more attractive for a buyer. These changes that you make are not necessarily things that you would like for your home, but they are changes the buyer will find more appealing when shopping for a new home.
One of the most important things that you can to stage your home for a quick sale is painting. This is not only something to do for staging, but is also a way to give your home a nice uplift, look and clean feeling.
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When you decide to paint your home make certain you choose a nice neutral color. The neutral color should be for all of the walls throughout the home if at all possible. A quick and less expensive way to accomplish this is to purchase your paint in five or ten gallon containers. Many neutral colors like shades of white, like eggshell or off white are typically less expensive than designer colors or more popular vivid shades of colors.
If you simply cannot stand a white or off white on all of your walls, choose something warm, but neutral. A beautiful shade of light brown will work very nicely.
If you cannot afford to paint all of the rooms of your house take a quick inventory and appraise your home from an objective point and decide which rooms absolutely must be painted more than the others. Usually investing in painting your living room, bathroom(s) and kitchen will give you the most bangs for your buck. Repainting the family room may not be as vital as the living room getting a “pick me up”.
If you are only painting certain rooms of the home make certain that you still try and stay with neutral colors or a warm color that will bring all of the colors of connecting rooms together. Don’t forget to paint the trim if necessary to get the most positive effect.
Make certain that you paint like a professional. Use painters tape and drop clothes. Take your time and make the new paint job look wonderful. Imagine yourself as a buyer walking through the doors of your home and how gorgeous it looks with the new paint in place. Try and paint your house or rooms at least a week before showing it to potential buyers.
Staging your home for a quick sale by painting it can help you get your house off of the market and into the hands of a buyer much quicker than you may imagine. Investing a little can go a long way with selling your house quick.
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In this challenging economic period, the majority of our diy tasks have to get placed on hold. Fortunately, there are several improvements that are still cost effective. One of them is painting your home’s interior. Whether you do it yourself, or decide to hire an expert, it is one of the most inexpensive ways to give your space a makeover.
Sometimes, it is not even required to paint the walls. Painting the trim, mouldings and door can often give accommodation a fresh new look. The darker the colour, the greater recessed these features will appear. When you select a white or bright paint to touch up trim, mouldings, and doors, you highlight them and bring them out.
If you are looking for more of a statement? Why don’t you paint the walls? Choose a bright paint for your breakfast nook and cooler, relaxed colours for the bedroom. There are actually different painting techniques that can add dimension and texture into your project as well.
For the most texture and dimension, faux painting is a practice that can assist you to achieve the look of granite, marble, wood or suede. It is achieved by painting with tools like sponges or rags. There are also more involved techniques that are best left to the experts. If you’re determined to try, pick a small space. A laundry room or a closet could be good.
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Stenciling is another good painting method and isn’t too difficult. It involves buying a design cut out and then painting or sponging over the top of the stencil to reveal the design. It adds interest into kitchen back-splashes, bathrooms, or bedrooms. It’s important to ensure that your stencils are substantial, to prevent the paint from spreading.
A quick and straightforward painting technique is rubber stamping. Remember the rubber stamps you used back in class? This will be an identical principle, using larger stamps and dipping them in paint to stamp the wall. This technique is usually used in nurseries or children’s rooms. You can buy different character themes, or nursery-themed rubber stamp sets.
Painting often looks like a simple task, but before you start prepping your space with tape and drop cloths, if you possess the time and patience, it could possibly be a project that you can tackle on your own. However, if you do not know about different paint finishes, you can end up wasting loads of time and money.
Wouldn’t it be better to pay an expert, who will have the job done in two to three days? You will not have to deal with picking out the paint, buying brushes, stencils, or rags. There will be no mess when he is done.
In today’s tough economic times, painting is the one trade that isn’t too expensive to pay for. With most of us working around the clock to pay for the bills, wouldn’t it be nice to come home into your freshly painted space? It is certainly the easier option to hire a specialist to do the work for you.
Interior painting is difficult work, by doing it yourself you might not achieve the effects which you are expecting. When you are going to paint the inside of your home then check out painter london first.
In order to paint a room properly, you should know how to paint a wall properly. Walls should be seen as a single job that you don’t stop at until it’s completed. A wall where the painting has been stopped and started tend to have a lot of interesting paint lines unless extra work and coats are applied.
Low VOC (volatile organic compounds) paint can be had at many paint sellers and I suggest you use it instead of the standard noxious stuff. Your heart and lungs will thank you. Hey, you can even advertise it as a bonus – “interior repainted in low-VOC paint”.
Today you can get low VOC paint in all kinds of colors, but I usually recommend light, bright and cheerful. While you might think that dark purple is dramatic, home buyers won’t necessarily think so. You might see it as lush and opulent; potential buyers will feel like they’ve been squeezed into a plum. Pick something banal; your next home is where you can go wild with shocking pink.
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Buy good brushes; they won’t disintegrate into a pile of bristles stuck to your freshly painted wall. However, roller covers are not so cranky; even the cheap ones will keep happily rolling on paint. Other things that will make your life easier are painter’s throws, sandpaper, spackle, caulk, thinner, primer, gloves, and a gallon of hand moisturizer, which will protect your hands and make it easier to wash up afterward.
Cover everything. This is an excellent time to stage the room – the less stuff in the room the better. Cover everything else with the painter’s throws. Tape the throws to the tops of baseboards, around window frames, door handles and electrical outlets. Especially the electrical outlets – digging paint out of a plugin is not fun.
Sand the whole wall. Yeah, I know that it takes a while you think would be better spent on painting, but it will make the paint adhere better to the wall and remove dirt that the paint will not stick to. Oh yeah, spackle holes before you sand. Don’t forget to blow off the sanding dust before you whip out the paint can.
Follow the directions for primer, paint, thinner, etc. The friendly employee in the paint shop will be able to give you some pointers for ensuring a smooth mixture.
Ceiling-wall-trim. That’s the order that you should paint in. Cut in with at least 2 inches of paint around trim, electrical outlets. More on corners, so you’re not jamming the roller in, trying to make up for a shoddy cutting job. Once you’ve finished cutting in, roll that paint on that wall and your job should be finished pretty quickly. Make sure that there are no small bits uncovered. Wait for the wall to dry and examine it to see if it needs another coat.
There! You’re pretty much done. Of course, there are the other walls in the room to do… and the other rooms… but hey, you’ve done this one! Pat yourself on the back (and get moving!)
Professional Painter Mike Dean from ‘The Painting Team’ gives professional tips on using masking tape to protect the carpet. This technique gives you a perfect paint result on skirting boards in carpeted rooms. Give your DIY paint job a professional look. Demonstrated by John Midworth from The Painting Team ” When you’re taping up, normally you don’t tape up, don’t go taping up a window to protect the glass; no, just get the cutting-in right , nice steady hand. If you put tape on the surface, your mind will tell you it’s safe to smash and if you haven’t taped exactly right, it will creep underneath. Generally we don’t tape, but you will have to tape to protect, say carpet for instance. Obviously you don’t want to get the carpet when you’re doing the skirting board, but also equally you don’t want to get any fibres into your brush, because then you’ll get a couple of metres down the skirting board and all of a sudden you’ve got bits in your paint, you’ll say “Where’s this coming from?”. So you tape the carpet, but as with everything there’s a right and a wrong way. The tape has to sort of duck down the carpet and sort of slot just under a little bit of the skirting board. and that’s done by putting the tape on in a proud fashion, put your hand on the tape, pull it back and then tuck down with a scraper. Best shown, and John will show you how to do that now; but put your tape up proud, put your hand on it, pull it back and tuck down with a scraper and you’ll have a nice job … Video Rating: 5 / 5
