Painting Living Room Walls

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The next step in our living room project is to actually paint. What we are going to do is the walls first, which I always recommend, and then we'll do the trim and ceiling later. For the walls, we've chosen a flat finish, and the client chose a color, which is black. Open your can, and that is indeed black. What I am going to do, is I am going to pour two thirds of it into the bucket here, which we'll use when we get to rolling, and I am going to start by cutting in. We are just going to go around the perimeter of the wall, which you obviously can hit with a roller. You want to give yourself about a five inches, five inch border here. As you can see, I am being very careful, so I don't hit the ceiling. I've got a fairly steady hand; I have been doing this long enough that I am not particularly concerned with getting paint on the ceiling. If you feel like it's necessary you might want to use some tape, and I'll show you how to apply that when we do the trim. When it comes to painting the border trim you don't have to necessarily worry about getting your wall paint on the trim, because we are going to paint that later. So you can be somewhat sloppy with it, as a matter of fact, I suggest that you do; that way you are going to make sure that you get all the surface covered in this border region here. Then again, you want to give yourself about five inches. Ok, we just cut in this wall, now we are ready to roll.

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