The 6 Steps to Painting a Bedroom | Interior

all right today I'm going to um talk about painting a room I'm getting ready to paint a bedroom here and I'm going to uh make a video here and I'm going to break it down into six steps and I I do get a lot of feedback from do-it-yourselfers that hate painting and I think I have a good understanding now after painting for a lot of years and getting feedback from do yourselfers why they hate painting so bad and I think breaking it down into these six steps this is going to make painting faster and more efficient for you and it's actually going to make it more enjoyable and you're going to end up with really good results if you're interested in enjoying the painting process being faster and more efficient stay tuned to the six steps that paintting a room so now I'm going to talk about step number one and we're going to break this down you know into steps and this is um the whole entire process is really important you know step number one is room prep I'm going to call it room prep and that's because before you start painting you should really prep the room room to get ready to paint if you have a lot of things in your way uh while you're painting it's just going to make the the painting process painful and frustrating so is uh difficult as it is sometimes to get everything out of the room that's really the best thing to do to make it more enjoyable and also when you're trying to work around Furniture when you're uh trying to work around um nightstands beds things like that it makes it really difficult to properly roll the wall you need room to be able to properly roll the wall so you got to try to get things out of the room now I understand it's not always practical to get everything out of the room another thing is is by getting everything out of the room you don't have to cover it and I know a lot of do-it-yourselfers don't have all the tools and access to all the tools that professional painters have like unlimited drop cloths and 9x 400 plastic and all that stuff cuz if you can't remove it well you need to drop it with plastic or drop floss I've got everything out of this room it gives me the ability to drop drop cloths and move drop cloths around it gives me the ability to be away from the wall and properly roll a wall it gives me the ability to do a layout on a ceiling walk around the entire room to paint the ceiling so room room prep in the prepping process is one of the most important uh steps in painting to be a successful professional painter do it-yourself and get awesome results before you start the painting process you're going to want to prep your wall uh to end up getting good results every wall is in every room every scenario has different situations but you know prepping the walls getting ready to paint is extremely important part of the wall prep is going to be patching holes part of the wall prep is going to be removing you know things on your walls um what I call them and it's not this isn't literal but we call them boogers and they're just um what they are is texture spots in the texture that are raised a little bit unusual when the texture was sprayed they're just imperfections in the walls you want to get rid of and and scrape off the walls so you end up with professional uh looking results I get you know questions all the time and I I know this is you know something um you know paint stores you know across the board um it's called upselling uh they try to sell you a primer and a paint they tell you you need your primer walls first I mean we got walls right here they've been painted multiple times they're in good sound condition the paint's in good condition it's not p there's no exposed bar drywall there's no um exposed wood so you don't need to prime it we're looking at walls we've got screws on the walls here um there's typically going to be Nails on the walls I typically if I'm going to rehang pictures back up on the walls I'm just going to paint right over those if I'm going to be um hanging pictures in different places I'm going to be pulling all the screws off the wall I'm going to be pulling off nails off the walls hooks Off the Wall stuff like that and I'm going to patch them and wall prep is going to you know include uh removing your um your switch plates um socket plates stuff like that I hear and see a lot of people trying to hand cut in around them it's just going to make the the painting process you know a lot more painful um not as efficient not as fast and you're going to get paint on the socket plates switch plates St like that so just remove them and then we use socket blockers that cover over the outlets and take the time to do these things don't get in a hurry to get start getting paint on the wall get it ready to paint and it is going to be more enjoyable and um a process that you're in the end just going to have fun doing all right step number three is setting up your tools getting ready to paint so part of making the painting process enjoyable is having the proper tools now I'll tell you when it comes to painting a room I see you know on social media a lot of do-it-yourselfers you know um just using a a roller just in their hands and they don't have an extension p now if you just try to attempt to roll this room you know with um a roller itself it is going to be kind of a painful process CU you're going to be climbing up and down ladders constantly all the time because you can't reach from top to bottom so um setting up your tools getting ready to paint is part of it is having the proper tools if you're a do it-yourself I highly recommend you know a 4 to 8ft extension pull this is one of the key essential tools to painting a room making it enjoyable you don't have to get on a to actually paint a ceiling use an extension pole this thing's going to um extend out the 8 ft so um having an extension pole and a good quality roller so just talking about tools you know when you buy if you buy a cheap roller um that the frame itself is really thin and flexible has a lot of flex to it you're not going to get good results on your walls um because it's going to leave what we call trailing edges on the wall I've got a 9in roller pan if I'm doing just one room I'm going to have to get my my 9in roller pan set up I'm going to get my cut in I have a 2 gallon C in bucket I'm going to have that ready with a 4in roller um brush I'm going to get all those tools you know set up in U my room where I'm painting I want to have everything set up and accessible to me so once I start painting I'm not walking and getting this I'm not oh I don't have this I got to run to the hardware store to get that so typically you know doing a room I'm going to have a ladder I'm going to be doing cuttings I want to get my ladder in here cuz um a lot of things are going to be happening at once part of the tool the tool setup is paint I'm going to get my paint I'm going to get a 5 gallon bucket because typically every room is going to use multiple gallons you can't paint this room in one gallon so you're going to need to strain your paints you're going to need to box them and what I mean by boxing them is mixing the two gallons together that you're going to use to paint this wall because if you don't mix it together um no matter how good the paint is um what paint you use there can be an inconsistency and color and Sheen and two gallons of paint and if you start with one gallon continue with the other gallon and come back and touch up with a gallon you finished off with you could see a Sheen difference you could see a color difference and that is very typical with low-end paints that's why I always use only high-end typically lifetime warranty paints interior and exterior because you're less likely to run into that problem so you're going to need a 5 gallon bucket you're going to need a strainer you always want to strain your paints nowadays because there's nothing more frustrating than painting and picking up um debris in the paint because all paint like the paint will dry on the top of the can you unfortunately these days on paint actually inside the can brand new sealed it'll dry on the top of the lid when you shake it up that dry paint gets mixed into the paint when you start rolling your walls that starts getting put on the walls and you're sitting there trying to pick it off the walls with your hands and you're getting paint on your hands another reason why um I wear gloves getting the tools ready getting everything set up you know in your room is ex it's extremely important to you know painting fast and efficient step number four is what to paint first now I get this question all the time you know what should I paint first should I paint my trim first should I paint my walls first or should I paint my ceiling now this room right here I'm not painting the trim the trim there's only a few little things that need to be touched up it was recently painted I'm not going to be painting the ceilings because the ceilings were recently painted too I've just been contracted to just do the walls and an accent while so um walls are obviously first and last this is only if you're a brushing and rolling because scenarios do change um if you're uh spraying walls and ceilings now if I'm brushing and rolling the trim or I'm spraying the trim the trim's always going to be first they brushing and rolling I'm going to roll my ceilings first bring my ceilings down onto my walls about two to three in and then I'm going to come back after that's dry uh two coats probably um almost almost every single time unless you're using a true one coat paint I'm going to come back and roll my walls now I'm going to put two coats on my walls two coats on my ceilings all right lesson number five is uh what and how to mask and you know this is um another thing you know I think you know where a lot of do-it-yourselfers you know uh struggle and the the pain process begins to be you know extremely painful is they don't take the time to mask and and I got to tell you as um a professional painter we mask everything and and there's a reason why it's um you know the masking is going to keep paint off of what you don't want paint on especially your carpet um masking and drop Closter is going to keep paint off your carpet it's going to keep paint on your flooring masking a 9in paper and some tape will be your best friend and it's and if you drip paint now you're not frustrated cuz it just went on paper so you what do we mask we mask um we run 9in paper you know typically around all the baseboards that's going to give you a cushion so 9 in paper is going to come out from your wall so any splatter coming off the roller is going to hit the paper we do have drop cloths you know um you should as a professional painter I'm pretty comfortable not using a drop cloth as long as I have 9 in paper but you really should if you don't have a lot of experience you should have a drop clo and this is you know something you should invest in now as a do it yourself right you don't have to go out and buy expensive drop clost um you can use bed sheets I know a lot of um do-it-yourselfers use beds sheets they're inexpensive but we're going to run you know 9in paper around everything we always run either 1 in or inch and a half tape on top of our base boards we're going to run you know inch or inch and a half tape along our door jams um along our windows and then we're also going to mask um our sockets and you can mask your sockets off uh with um with masking tape or something way more convenient is Socket blockers and they're absolutely amazing and they are reused usable as a do-it-yourself you'll probably never have to buy another box of them you know um and they just make they make the prep process a lot easier and a lot faster you'll just take the time literally to do this room I can mask this room off probably in 5 to 10 minutes um the entire room it's it doesn't take very long so um take take the time all right now we're going to talk about step number six and that is getting down to uh the painting process and rolling and brushing your walls all right so I'm going to talk about um you know doing doors windows uh baseboards cins um also and you know I don't ever hand cut that in um I just personally think it takes a lot longer think you can get perfectly straight lines with masking and so I typically use frog tape you'll see me using frog tape green you're going to get perfectly straight lines every time now rolling your walls um there is you know technique to Rolling your walls to getting a good finish now one of the things I see with do-it-yourself is after they're done with the paint job I'll just walk up look at the wall you can see that the color underneath it cuz they didn't get enough paint on application when it comes to paints almost you know 98% of the time you're always going to have to two call your walls now if you want your walls to be the true color the true Sheen um and not see the other color underneath you're you're typically going to be you know rolling two coats whether I'm painting the trim the walls or the ceilings it's going to be too coat now your application process how you apply the paint is going to have a lot to do with that too if you don't apply enough paints and you do what we call dry napping it and that's you load up your nap start rolling the walls and you start rolling down too much of the wall the paint you know the the nap or the roller sleeve um what we call it it runs out of paint you know and then you go back to what you just put paint on the wall it'll actually start pulling paint off the wall so the paint you just put on the wall you just pulled it off the wall so what we we call dry napping the wall so um applying paint applying it properly loading your roller I can't say enough like load your roller up get that thing you know sopping wet take your roller to your wall or your ceiling and getting your nap or your roller sleeve to the wall you don't want to just carry it to the wall because paint when it's really loaded soft with wet paint's going to drip off of it so I subconsciously turn it as I'm getting it to my substrate to my my wall or my ceiling if you don't turn it it could drip but you can take and hold a loaded knp in your hand like this and turn it just continually and it's never going to drip so I'm going load it get it totally saturated load it I'm going to twist and turn it and I'm constantly doing this and then get it and start rolling my wall and I'm typically only going to be rolling a wall from um like a 8T wall from ceiling to um trim I'll do basically two pass two 9 in passes I'm going to unload that roller that pass lay it out and then I'm going to reload it up again and that's about as far as you can get to get your wall really saturated with paint you want to be saturated with paint and then your next load you're going to overlap 50% and then unload your paint and roller and you and once again I can't emphasize this enough you got to put on Plenty of paint now it's kind of interesting so I might confuse you here the very first code of paint CU we always do two coats typically the very first coat of paint if you really um slop and saturate that wall really um heavy it's going to take a lot longer to dry so what we do is we do a skim coat on our first coat so we put a light coat you know on our first coat it's going to dry really fast go back put a super heavy coat on our second [Music] coat [Music] [Applause]