How To Paint Fast Your Home in 7 Simple Steps

Thinking of painting your home. It all starts with a single wall. Wassily Kandinsky, a famous Russian Painter, and Art Theorist said “Colour is a power which directly influences the soul”. Whether it is a colored painting on a wall or a room painted beautifully has some magic to enlighten your soul.  We mostly paint our homes to give them a lively look. It may be an occasional requirement because of some ceremony or a party that we are thinking to throw. So is painting really an art or a scientific procedure to perform? Well, in painting a room, it sounds more like a scientific procedure to be followed step by step in an organized fashion. It may not be as difficult as it looks, let’s find out here how to paint fast your home in 7 simple steps; 

1.    Preparing The Room

·       Furniture out: Make the room clear by taking out all the furniture and any accessories.

·       Wall Fittings: Remove the fittings but don’t remove the nails for hanging back the actual fitting in its place.

·       Wall measurements: Take the lengths and breadth of the wall in square feet as it will help during the brush application while painting.

2.    Scrapping The Walls and Floor

·       Wall Cleaning: If you are simply repainting, then you just need to cleanse the walls, so that there is nothing left behind that sticks to the new paint.

·       Wall seepage: Scrap the bubbles that may have appeared because of the wall wetting due to seepage, apply white cement and level it to make it ready.

·       Floor Scraping and Cleaning: This is also essential before covering it, so that the old dirt or stains have been removed thoroughly. 

3.    Covering The Non-Movable Stuff

Cover the floors or necessary equipment that cannot be removed with newspaper, tapes, clothes, etc. Ensure to tape well so that they do not easily fall off during the painting. It could be non-movable stuff like the carpet or any equipment. 

4.   Wall Levelling and Holes

Before getting to the actual part, it’s necessary to get the walls ready to paint. Give a few hours preparing your walls; patching holes, cleaning, and sanding for better results. 

5.  Tools & Equipment For Painting

Tools

• Spackle & spatula will help to patch any holes.

• Metal paint scraper will get the scrape off any peeling or cracking paint.

• Fine grit sandpaper is used to even out the old paint roughness and smoothen down any bubbles or bumps.

• Tape to be used to cover up the borders so that the paint doesn’t bleed out and spill over. 

Painting Goods

Buying the goods may be a tricky business but one can do little research and take opinions before getting them. Different online stores keep coming up with good discounts like dulux decorator centre discount codes being one of these and on several occasions. Go for the one that suits your budget.

• Angled paintbrush helps in getting the edges done neatly without the spill out.

• Flat paintbrush is used in painting the border area.

• Paint rollers and covers are better if you want to paint fast your home in less time. Using a painter’s pole which can be attached to the roller for extended reach will help if your ceilings are high. Roller covers should be according to the material to be painted.

• Paint tray is used to hold smaller portions of paint as you work. It also saves you from dipping directly into the paint cans or bucket which shall contaminate it.

Paints And Its Types

• Primer basically is an undercoat applied before color to save your actual paint. Another purpose to use it is because of its adhesive quality.

·       Flat paint is suited in places where there are wall bumps or holes to be covered.

·       Satin and Eggshell paints are suited for living and bedrooms since they are easy to clean and have the light-reflective properties that are wanted in most rooms.

·       Semi-gloss and High-gloss paints are good to paint areas of windowsills, banisters or smaller surface areas.  

6.  Starting To Paint

• Quantity

Remember 1 Gallon can paint 400 sq. ft. of an area, so we should buy the required paint according to this formula. For painting the trim areas, the measurement should be in feet.

• The Paint Plan

Paint the Ceilings first, then the walls, and then the windows and trim areas like the wall borders below.

• Application of The Roller and Brush

How to start and get done quickly with the paint fast your home effort, so when finally starting to paint;

·       For the ceiling, first, brush the sides and then use a roller to paint the ceiling. Ensure to dip in softly, so that the paint does not drip.

·       Do not use the roller fast as it may splatter the paint around.

·       Tape the edges of the wall or ceiling borders and trims.

·       Start painting first with the brush to paint a small area below the ceiling borders so that it is straight. Similarly, for the bottom trims, then apply the same procedures to use the roller in a similar fashion as above to complete the walls.

·       Use the roller grid to even out paint on the roller. Roll in zigzag or straight manner but top to bottom as you like but ensure all areas are covered. You can move the roller in parallel also to cover up. But as said above, go slow, so that the paint does not splatter. Reload your roller, if required many times but do not overload it as it will spoil the texture of the walls.

7.   Finishing The Hard Work

·       Finally tape down the trim border at the end of the wall and apply with even brushes to complete the paint and your room walls are ready.

·       Two coats with walls shall be enough to give it the look you want.

·       Remove the tapes and see if we have missed any spots out.

·       Cover them as per requirement.  

Wow Look At That Wall

So finally after all the hard work, Paint fast your home was really a simple business. You can now sit down and give a gaze at the walls of happiness, which are so colorful and you can say to yourself, pointing to one. “Wow, look at that Wall”.