09/17/2020
How to paint a Room by yourself in 8 simple steps.
1- REMOVE FURNITURE.
To be efficient in painting a room you need a good work space to make sure you don't damage your furniture. If you can't remove the furniture from the room, move everything at least four feet from the walls and cover your furniture with painting plastic or an old blanket to protect it.
2- Gather Supplies.
Before you begin, get your tools together to make your work flow easier. Make sure you cover your floors with painting plastic or an old blanket to protect your flooring or carpet from any spills.
Here are the tools that we recommend for the best painting results.
For your edges and trim you’ll need:
• A two gallon bucket
• A one gallon grid inside of the bucket
• 3” wide angled bristle brush
• 4” roller
For rolling the walls you will need:
• 9'' paint roller tray (metal or plastic)
• 9'' roller with 3/8 nap cover
• Painting tape
• Brown paper to cover the flooring and baseboards
• Caulking and a caulking gun to caulk the trim
• Flat head screwdriver to remove the cover plates of the outlets
If you have any holes on your walls that need to be covered, you can use spackling and a spackle knife to fill them. You may need a ladder or stool as well if you have tall walls, and a razor knife to cut your painting plastic. With these basic materials you’ll be able to achieve a great painting job yourself.
3- Painting Preparation
Before beginning to paint the walls, make sure you use brown paper to cover your flooring around the walls, the baseboards, trim, and window seals as well. Use care when covering the baseboards, ceilings and trim to avoid extra touch ups later. Also make sure you remove your blinds, outlet covers and switch plates.
At this point you can double check any holes on the walls and use a fast dry spackling to cover them, waiting a few minutes to ensure they dry properly. You can find a good spackling kit at your preferred construction store.
4- First Coat: Rolling the Walls
Use a thin application for the first coat when rolling your walls. This will help it dry faster. Use your 9'' roller and be careful with the paint so you don’t spill.
5- Fist Coat: Cut-ins
Once the walls are dry you can start the edges and trim. This includes corners, light switches, outlets, trims, baseboards and ceiling. These areas are called cut-ins and are best painted with an angled brush or small roller.
6- Second Coat: Rolling the Walls
This step is essential for a great paint job: repeat step number four and five as you apply your second coat. If painting your room with a lighter color, you may need a third coat before moving on to the next step. Verify that your paint has no streaks and an even application before moving to step seven.
7- Remove Masking and Touch Ups
Before the paint dries, remove the masking paper and tape from the trim and baseboard. Make sure to double check if you have to do any touch ups on the walls.
8- Clean up
Now that you’ve finished, it’s time to clean up. Before putting your room back together, check that your paint has dried. Once the paint is dry, you can put the window blinds, outlet covers and light switches back. Vacuum your floors, move your furniture back to where it belongs, and that’s it! Great job.
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