Unless you are little bit bent in the wrong direction, painting is probably not your favorite cup of tea. Like most folks, painting is NOT on my top ten list of favorite things to do. I'm not sure it is on my list at all. However, there are times when I cannot avoid it and hard as it is for me to admit, I CAN do it. Even if you don't want to believe it, so can you.
Don't buy cheap paint. Cheap paint means you will be doing it all over again much sooner than you are ready for. Buy quality paint. "Quality" doesn't mean the most expensive in the store. Buy the paint that suits your needs.
IF you are painting over bare wood or concrete, you need a sealer. If you don't use a sealer, you will use a lot more paint to cover. Some things just make good sense, and using a sealer is one of them.
Drop cloths, the pro's use them and you should too. A drop cloth is a lot easier to put down than a gazillion old newspapers. The runner style drop cloths are great when you are doing walls. Mine is 4 foot wide and fifteen feet long, I move it along with me as I paint.
I believe in rollers and use them as much as possible. I cut in with a brush where I have to but I use a roller everywhere I can. The cheap roller/pan combinations will work fine. Throw them out when done, they really aren't worth cleaning. The same is true of the Dollar Store paintbrushes, use them then throw them out.
Blue painter's tape works great in most cases. I use it and generally have good luck with it. I also use the rolls of foot wide brown paper in conjunction with the blue tape for taping off the areas/things I don't want to paint.
Emptying the room of furniture is the optimum plan but not always possible. It is a lot more work to shuffle things around while you paint. You do what you have to. Removing the trim is sometimes easier than trying to tape it off. That is a subjective call that has to be made by the operator. In my case, I removed the trim.
Patch everything BEFORE you tape or paint. Do your prep like pulling nails and screws then patching the holes and sanding BEFORE you get too serious. If you don't, you will regret it.
Be systematic, start in one place and work around the room. Don't jump around with dabs of paint on every wall, finish the wall then go to the next one.
When rolling, use the 'W' pattern and you are less likely to have lines. Another important point is don't try to stretch the paint. Load the roller, apply, don't try to set records for how far you can make it go. Paint with a reasonable amount of paint and only expect a reasonable amount of coverage. Stretching the paint just means more coats for coverage.
Painting is a very doable thing. When it needs to be done, you CAN do it.{vozmeenf}
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