I am fond of rooms that have large panels of color with white molding. I have haphazardly painted a lot of rooms and below you will learn the easiest way to get some color on your wall (otherwise known as learn from my mistakes)
1. Get your supplies.
a few, 3 or 4, rollers
an extension rod
blue tape (3 or 4 rolls)
white primer
the base wall color. Buy 1 can more than you think it will need to paint the room (s) because it’s better to have some left over than to run out and that way you have some to keep for touch-ups.
white paint people will tell you one is better than the other, but if we are being honest white paint is white paint so go cheap if you want to.
2. move all of your furniture to the middle of the room and throw some sheets that you don’t mind throwing away over it. Or some tarp, whatever…
3. You are going to “cut in” the walls first so put the blue tape as close as you can along the top ledge of the base board. Use your nail (or a butter knife or spatula) to press the tape as flat as possible
4. If your walls already have color paint the edges with a thick coat of primer. It is okay of you get it on the tape but make sure that the color of the wall does’t bleed through.
5. Paint the wall with the primer once you have “cut in” the primer.
6. Wait about 2 and 1/2 hours (if you can) to go to the next step
7. Go all around the edges of the room putting the best coat possible of your wall color. I always imagine it as a frame for some reason so make the thickest sold frame possible.
Once you have the room “cut in” your ready to paint the wall.
