Interior Painting
A Step by Step Guide to Painting the Inside of Your Home
Paint not only changes the color of the room, but the mood and tone. While it isn’t difficult, interior painting isn’t as simple as taking a brush and painting blindly. This article will cover how to prepare your walls, how to prime, and how to paint. |  |  |
The first step is to prepare your walls. Cover fixtures with painters tape and patch holes with spackling paste. Before you even open the lid on the paint can, wash your walls. Home paint adheres better to clean walls. Wash your walls from the floor up to prevent streaks. Any house cleaner works.
After your walls are prepared, you can finally get your brush wet–but not with paint. Using primer first allows fewer coats and prevents stains from coming through. For dark walls, use gray primer. For light colors, use a white primer. The primer will take thirty minutes to two hours to dry–depending on humidity and temperature.
Now you are ready for the final step: painting. To start, you will need: a paint roller a paint tray an angled brush paint
Paint the walls in sections about four feet by four feet. Do not simply roll up and down. Make a W shape followed by an M to fill in the gaps. Do not paint horizontally like you would exterior painting. After that, you can roll vertically to smooth the paint out. Use an angled brush to paint where the ceiling meets the wall so the roller doesn’t bump the ceiling. Here is a tip that will prevent you from running out of interior paint. One gallon covers about 320 sq feet, which is roughly two walls. After the first coat, wait a couple of hours for water-based paints and twenty four hours for enamel to dry before applying the second coat.
Following these steps will ensure your home renovation is successful.
