How To Apply Paint to Ceilings and Walls - The Home Depot

You’ve carefully selected your products and you’ve taken a time to properly prepare your room for painting now comes the moment of truth, applying the paint. As with any other home improvement project there is a right way and a wrong way to do the job. Let’s start with the ceiling and work our way down. First, be sure to select paints especially design for ceilings, it has a flat shin so the ceiling will have an even look. They will also help diffuse light and it’s formulated to spotter less than wall paint. And ceilings don’t always need to be paint to white, try tinting the ceiling paint to tie in with the colors you have plan for the walls. As you can see this particular ceiling has was called the pop corn texture. Many of these textures are water soluble so it may dissolve and come down if you are quite a water base latex paint. To avoid this seal the surface with the white pigment initial light before you apply the paint, alright let’s start by cutting the edges of the ceiling with the brush. Now before you start any painting job you should apply a thinner to your brush, water for latex or mineral spirits for oil base paints and remove any excess. Deep your brush about one third of the way up to versus so paint doesn’t accumulate all they up to the top. Gently top the brush to both side to the bucket but don’t drag or press the brush against the room, it will remove too much paint. Start your first brush stroke one way from the edge and then we’re turn to the starting point and brush toward the edge then smooth the paint with the light touch. Reload the brush and start the next stroke on the width edge and apply toward the dry then back paint toward the wet and lightly feed that the two areas together with light strokes. Now, only cut the edge for an area you can roll off while maintaining the width edge say about there foot section. Before you apply paint with roller, prime the roller pad with the thinner and remover any excess. Deep the roller into a tray and saturate it with paint. Then remove the excess by gently rolling it back and forth across the graded portion of the tray. Begin rolling on paint along the steel width cutting edge to prevent overlapped marks. Reload the roller often and roll slowly and lightly then back roll to blend the paint. As you can see we are using a roller with along neck due to the rough texture of surface, continue working in small sections by first along the wall then applying with the roller rolling up the paint then blending. Also be sure to vary the roll of direction slightly because perfectly straight lines are more likely to show overlap marks. Repeat this process until the ceiling is done and immediately wipe up any treat marks on your walls as you go. Now, make sure you apply blue painter tape to any ceiling molding before applying paint to the wall. The process is similar to painting a ceiling, you want to work in small sections and cutting only as much as you can roll off before it dries. Begin by rolling along the vertical wet edge in one corner of the room and then paint a three foot high W pattern and fill the pattern in. Once you’ve completed enough W patterns to fill a floor of ceiling section, fill your roller with a light load and blend the sections. And if you need to stop before completing the room stop in either on inside or outside corner this will help hides some of the settle color or shin differences you may have when you continue painting later. Continue the process of cutting and rolling until all the walls in the room are completed. Allow this cut to dry for at least 12 hours before applying the second coat and allow the finish walls to cure for at least 24 hours before you missed off the walls to paint trim. This way paint will come off with the tape when its remove, if you buy premium products prep the surface and use a proper technique, you will get professional results every time.