[Boomer]

About this painting thing -- I think I need to pass along again my helpful tips that I put in an old thread a long time ago. If you follow these guidelines, you will make the onerous chore of painting quite simple and fast and easy.

Here are my helpful tips for those of you who hate painting as much as I do:

1. Ask husband to help.
2. Proceed with painting for approximately 10 to 15 minutes.
3. Drip a little paint here and there.
4. Blob a blob of paint on a window.
5. Get fired by husband who finishes job perfectly all by himself.

Princess Boomer

[faithfulfrank]

I love painting. I've painted whole house interiors, and it is gratifying to see a worn out looking house transformed into a thing of beauty.

The key is good prep work and good tools. I recently had a terrible experience with some bad paint I bought at HD. Thank God it was at my house and not someone elses. I'm in the middle of a labor intensive fix, using valspar to cover up the bad Behr paint. I should have listened to an old painter friend of mine who says, "Better to leave the walls bare then to use it."

I'm hoping the Valspar will be the proper fix. We leave for Florida next Saturday,(Yippee), so I think the job will not get done until we return in June. I can't wait to get back down there.

Frank D.

[eujaynia]

Originally Posted by faithfulfrank

I love painting. I've painted whole house interiors, and it is gratifying to see a worn out looking house transformed into a thing of beauty.

The key is good prep work and good tools. I recently had a terrible experience with some bad paint I bought at HD. Thank God it was at my house and not someone elses. I'm in the middle of a labor intensive fix, using valspar to cover up the bad Behr paint. I should have listened to an old painter friend of mine who says, "Better to leave the walls bare then to use it."

I'm hoping the Valspar will be the proper fix. We leave for Florida next Saturday,(Yippee), so I think the job will not get done until we return in June. I can't wait to get back down there.

Frank D.

Hi Frank.

Yikes! What was the issue with Behr paint? Well, not that it can help me now. I have used 1/2 of 1 gallon and have 2 more gallons of a different color.

My issue with painting is the stupid popcorn ceiling. HATE IT! Being inexperienced & with hind-sight being 20/20, I should have attempted to place tape as far to top as I could to have the illusion of painting to the ceiling and have a straight line. Did the best I could, but it isn't very good. And that blue tape that is advertised as so wonderful... well, maybe I dabbed too hard or something, but it bled under and I do not have the nice clean edge I expected.

With this said, I'm going through posts to contact some painters to help me correct my errors and paint the rest of the living/dining/kitchen areas.

Oh ... primer. Has everyone primered or used flatwall paint first?

Regards,
Rebekah
Bonita Village

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by F16 1UB

NOTHING!!!!! But if you are going to paint we went to Lowes and bought Valspar brand. I can truly say that this is the 1st time that I'd ever used paint with that only required 1 coat.

F16

Dang EFF!

We went to Lowes and got us some of that Valspar. (Previously we had used Ralph Lauren from Home Depot.) On your recommendation we used Valspar and it IS good. However we were painting over some deep color so we had to apply primer and than paint and that guy Sweetie, is a PERFECTIONIST. He had to apply TWO coats while I am yelling "It is perfect. It is perfect. No more. no more".

The score is so far..... Two bedrooms and two bathrooms done. (including the sewing of new draperies and stuff) On one ceiling I had painted the night sky.(Very hard to cover) We also had to remove wall paper in the bathroom from walls that were NOT sized. We learned a lot about skim coating. Everyone at Lowes knows us by our first name.

I'm so tired and we have acres yet to paint. I want to come home to TV!

Someone is gonna make that remark about writing a novel. I really DON'T think I'm interesting . When I'm typing I'm not painting.......

[k2at]

I little trick a painter friend of mine gave me is where the walls reach the popcorn ceilings, take a chisel about a half inch wide adn scrape the popcorn of the ceiling. Use the wall as a guide. Then when u paint the wall, u do not paint any of the popcorn. It is messy as the chisel scrapes off a lot of popcorn and it all lands on the floor, but that is what vacuums r for. Scape the ceilings throughout the house before u start painting. Makes the job a lot more manageable.