Painting the walls of your home can be an exciting process, whether you’ve moved into your first home and want to decorate or you are changing your old color by something cooler. This can be a long process but the work of paint will last for years. Proper preparation will help ensure that your paint job will look its best.
Instructions :
- Use gloves, plastic or canvas placed on the floor and over the furniture. Mix a few drops of mild dishwashing liquid into a bucket with some water. Dip a sponge into and then rub firmly on the walls. This will help remove dust, oil and dirt. Dry with a clean towel.
- Protect all areas that do not want to paint with masking tape. This includes all the edges along the walls, moldings, electrical outlets, ceiling corners where it meets the ceiling and window sills. Stick the tape along the edges, so when you’re painting the walls, if the brush paint touches these areas fall into the tape. This step takes some time, but be sure to do it carefully and will make a big difference between a professional finish or one careless.
- 1/3 empty tin fixer is on the tray and fills enough to immerse the roller, but without overflowing the sides. Then place the fixing roller and roll it to get wet. Make sure the roller is evenly coated but not dripping.
- Carefully and firmly fixing roller passes the top and bottom of the wall, covering it evenly. Again dip the roller into the tray when necessary.
- Medium brush dipped in fixative and then paint roller areas could not reach. Areas covered with tape need be touched with the brush to reach all the corners and edges and around doors, ceiling and floor. Pass the brush firmly around the painting (wall side) as well as withdraw the tape, no bare areas. Let the fixative dry for at least half a day.
- A new tray filled with paint. Use a new roll and dip it in the paint and make sure it does not drip. Spend the roller on the wall from top to bottom, doing your best to make uniform layers on the fixer. Carrying roller side of the tape as close as possible adds more paint when necessary. You have to put two to three coats of paint depending on the darkness of the tone (between darker the paint, you need fewer layers).
- Carefully remove the masking tape immediately after painting finishes, while the paint is still wet (this will help remove the tape more easily). Let the walls dry, which can take one to two days.