| A very well done paint job can set your home above | | | | little and fill them again until they are full and then sand |
| the rest when homes are hard to sell in a slow | | | | and prime with latex primer. Repeat this with ceiling |
| economy. Painting the whole interior is the best way. | | | | walls until they are all sanded and primed. Everyone |
| But if money is a little tight at least paint the first floor | | | | has a different process as far as what to paint first |
| and any parts of the home that someone would see | | | | second and last. The ceiling first is a given but some |
| when they first enter. Let's assume we have a two | | | | paint the walls next some paint the trim next. I like |
| story townhouse with three bedrooms one hall | | | | ceiling, trim. walls. I will show you why. First after |
| bathroom, a master bathroom close to the master | | | | sanding wipe dust clean and from all walls and |
| bedroom. Stairway from 2nd to 1st where there is a | | | | ceilings.When selling a home it is best to use generic |
| living room, dining room,kitchen and powder room near | | | | colors like off white. There are 50 or more different |
| the living room. Let's also assume that the seller takes | | | | off white colors to choose from. Flat white on the |
| my advice and can afford to paint the whole house. | | | | ceiling. eggshell is a good sheen for the walls except |
| There is flowery wallpaper in the living room and | | | | for the kitchen and bathrooms which should be satin or |
| dinning room. I will get to the wallpaper removal in a | | | | semigloss walls and satin ceilings. |
| later article. Let's say that all the floors will be | | | | Getting ready to paint the ceiling we do a cut in first. |
| recarpeted, except the bathroom and kitchen floors | | | | Take the brush paint the edge of the ceiling and let it |
| which are ceramic tile that we will protected with | | | | come down maybe a half in or so on the walls This is |
| dropclothes. We will still use dropclothes everywhere. | | | | so when you roll you do not have to come close and |
| A good work area is a clean work area. Also more | | | | risk touching the walls, and you will have a good edge |
| safe. | | | | to use to keep the paint line straight from wall to ceiling. |
| First we drop cloth every room, except for the | | | | So cut the ceiling, roll the ceiling, two coats. I have been |
| stairway because of the tripping hazard. We will put | | | | painting professionally for 30 years so it is easy for me |
| drop clothes there when ready to paint there. First | | | | to keep that line straight. You can use blue tape, it |
| thing is to prep the walls and ceiling. For this purpose I | | | | come in yellow and green now too. The idea when |
| will talk about one room at a time. Where I would | | | | you use tape is to take it down as soon as you are |
| usually prep the whole house at one time. Let us pick | | | | finished one wall. Get up on the ladder take a two foot |
| the master bedroom at the back of the house. Let us | | | | piece lay it right in the corner of the wall on the ceiling |
| say that the walls are in pretty good shape except for | | | | only pressing on the edge and not too hard. Move the |
| some holes because of hanging pictures. The house | | | | ladder down overlap another and continue. Cut the wall |
| was painted 15 years ago so there is a little loose paint | | | | once give it fifteen or twenty minutes cut it again then |
| and we are not sure if it is oil based or latex. The way | | | | roll the wall and right after take the tape down. Also |
| to find this out is with denatured alcohol, you can find it | | | | before you tape that paint all of the trim first let that |
| near the paint thinner at Lowes, Home Depot. Put | | | | dry. When you paint the trim let it overlap a half in like |
| some on a rag,( use plastic gloves) wipe the wall if | | | | the ceiling let it all dry the tape ceiling and trim to paint |
| some of the paint comes off and sticks to the rag, it is | | | | the walls and quickly remove tape. |
| latex, if nothing comes off it is oil based paint. If it was | | | | Most importantly only try this if you are a fairly good |
| oil based we would need to prime with oil based | | | | painter anyway and okay with going up and down |
| primer then paint with latex or oil. In this case it is latex | | | | ladders. If you are a older person with not much |
| so we move on with latex paint. | | | | experience with painting and ladders. Hire someone it is |
| First we scrape all loose paint, fill all nail holes with | | | | safer. Well I hope this article can help the do it your |
| spackle, also spackle where the loose paint was. Joint | | | | selfer paint like the big boys. In later articles I well show |
| compound or (spackle) is mostly a two or three step | | | | you exactly how to dip paint, and apply it on the wall. |
| process. Fill the nail holes let them dry they will sink a | | | | |