This step-by-step guide will teach you the process of painting an inside room with professional results. While using this guide to achieve the results you want; keep in mind painting is a very time consuming project. This process includes; emptying the room, removing cover plates, filling in holes, caulking, taping, prepping the walls, painting with a roller, and looking for touching up. You will be happy when all your work is done and you will have the sense of accomplishment. If the steps are followed in order, you can achieve a professional look. For this project, you will need the paint of your choice. These instructions will only teach you how to apply one color. You will also need; a …show more content…
This will make painting easier, when it comes to the rolling. The roller does not always get into the ceiling corners. Always give the edges two coatings of paint. The roller holds a greater deal of paint than the paint brush. Once the ceiling corners are painted, do all of the edges including around the door frames, windows, and base boards. By doing this, you are allowing the paint on the ceiling to dry before you take the roller to it. The walls are now prepped; now grab your roller and the roller pan. Pour enough paint into the pan, so that the paint is about half an inch from the top of the deepest part of the pan; dip your roller in the pan. You will promptly make forward and backward stokes in the paint. This loads the roller with paint. Take your roller to the place on the ceiling where you started with the paint brush. Place the roller into pan and start rolling forward and backward. Make sure if the roller is skipping as you are painting that you go and reload the roller. This will save you time and energy at the end. Continue doing this until the ceiling is painted. Once the ceiling is painted, you can now paint the rest of the walls in the room. Allow the wall to fully dry, at least two