Applying Primer to Paint a Living Room

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The next step in painting a living room is going to be priming the areas that we repaired. You are going to need a brush, obviously; and I recommend using one of these little hot dog, as they call them, roller. We got our primer here, just going to give it a little stir to make sure that it's properly mixed-up, and you'll see that it will have a certain consistency to it. If it wasn't stirred-up enough you could tell because a lot of time water drifts to the top. Then I am going to take the bucket, and I am going to dump, maybe about half of it in there; and I'll rest my brush in the can so that it doesn't dry out on me. Then I am going to take my drop cloth, and run it along the edge of the wall, and we are ready to go. So dip the old roller, little bit at a time, into the primer. Then we are just going to hit the areas that we patched earlier. Just like that. So we'll let that dry, it shouldn't be more than half an hour, and then we'll be ready to paint. So after we've primed the wall, we are going to go ahead and prime the trim. Get yourself a good brush, and we are just going to hit the areas that we patched earlier, or any place that you see bare wood. Now if were to skip the actual priming, what would happen is that in those bare wood areas, you'd get some bleeding through into the pain, and you don't want that. You don't have to worry too much about being neat with it because obviously we are going to go over it again with the real paint. Ok, I think I got everything. We've got all the priming done now, so we need to let that dry for about half an hour, and they we can go ahead and finally paint.

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