TIPS FOR PAINTING YOUR DREAM HOME

1. Sand Away Flaws

You have to start with a perfectly smooth surface to end up with perfectly painted walls or woodwork. Sanding levels outs spackle or joint-compound patches and flattens ridges around nail holes. Sanding also removes burrs and rough spots in your trim.
Sand the walls from the baseboard to the ceiling with fine grit sanding paper on a sanding pole. Then sand horizontally along the baseboard and ceiling. Don't put a lot of pressure on the sanding pole or the head can flip over and damage the wall. Sand woodwork with a sanding sponge to get into crevices.

2. Cover Furniture

If you can't move furniture out of a room, move all of it to the center of the room and cover and wrap it with plastic sheets that are taped at the bottom. This will not only protect your furniture from paint drips and splatters, but also all of the dust from sanding.

3. Clean Dirty Walls With Degreaser in case of repainting

Paint won't bond to greasy or filthy surfaces, like kitchen walls above a stove, mudrooms where kids kick off their muddy boots and scuff the walls or the areas around light switches that get swatted at with dirty hands. "Always use a degreaser to clean grimy or greasy surfaces," expert advised. "It cuts through almost anything you have on walls for better paint adhesion."

4. Use wall putty and primer before painting

Before the painting, fill holes and patch cracks with joint compound. But if you paint directly over it, the compound will suck the moisture out of the paint, giving it a flat, dull look (a problem called "flashing"). Those spots will look noticeably different than the rest of the wall. To avoid that prime the walls before painting.

5. Eliminate Brush and Lap Marks With Paint Extender

The secret to a finish that's free of lap and brush marks is mixing a paint extender (also called a paint conditioner), into the paint. This does two things. First, it slows down the paint drying time, giving you a longer window to overlap just-painted areas without getting ugly lap marks that happen when you paint over dried paint and darken the color. Second, paint extender levels out the paint so brush strokes are virtually eliminated (or at least much less obvious). Pros use extenders when painting drywall, woodwork, cabinets and doors. Manufacturer's directions tell you how much extender to add per gallon of paint.

6. Scrape a Ridge in Textured Ceilings

The problem with painting along the edge of textured ceilings is that it's almost impossible to get a straight line along the top of the wall without getting paint on the ceiling bumps. You can have a simple solution, run a screwdriver along the perimeter of the ceiling to scrape off the texture. "This lets you cut in without getting paint on the ceiling texture," onExpert says "The screwdriver creates a tiny ridge in the ceiling, so the tips of your paint bristles naturally go into it. And you'll never even notice the missing texture."

7. Use Canvas Drop Cloths

Painter don't use bed sheets as drop cloths, and neither should you. Thin sheets won't stop splatters and spills from seeping through to your flooring. And while plastic can contain spills, the paint stays wet for a long time. That wet paint can (and usually does) find the bottom of your shoes and get tracked through the house.
Use what the pros use—canvas drop cloths. They're not slippery and they absorb splatters (but still wipe up large spills or they can bleed through). "Unless you're painting a ceiling, you don't need a jumbo-size cloth that fills the entire room," a pro says. "A canvas cloth that's just a few feet wide and runs the length of the wall is ideal for protecting your floor, and it's easy to move."

8. Start with Kitchen in case of repainting

Kitchen painting is completed first, so that you can prepare your meals without trouble.

9. Painting is carried out room by room

If you’re living in the house during the painting process, make sure the painting is carried out room by room and not all at once. This way you can shift from one room to another without facing any issues.

10. Finish One Wall Before Starting Another

It might seem easy to do all the corners and trim in a room, then go back to roll the walls, but don't. Pros get a seamless look by cutting in one wall, then immediately rolling it before starting the next. This allows the brushed and the rolled paint to blend together better.
Cover your paint bucket, tray or container with a damp towel when switching between brushing and rolling to keep your paint and tools from drying out when not in use.

11. Box Paint for Consistent Color

The "same" color of paint can vary between cans. "That difference can be glaringly obvious if you pop open a new gallon halfway through a wall. To ensure color consistency from start to finish, mix cans of paint in a 5 gallon bucket (a process called "boxing").
Some painters paint directly out of the bucket. This eliminates the need to pour paint into a roller tray, though the heavy bucket is harder to move.

12. Wash Roller Covers

Whether you buy cheap or expensive roller covers, washing them before their first use gets rid of the fuzz that inevitably comes off once you start painting. Wash them with water and a little bit of liquid soap, and run your hands up and down the covers to pull off any loose fibers (a practice called "preconditioning covers"). You can start using the roller covers right away—you don't need to let them dry.

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