10 Steps Painting A Room FAST and EASY

home painter. In this video, we're going to show you how to paint a room in 10 simple steps. So, the first step in painting a room is you want to gather all your furniture. You want to get it away from the walls at least 4 ft away from the walls or out of the room completely where it'll give you easy working space. You're not going to get paint on your furniture. The furniture is not going to be in your way. If you can't get all the furniture out of the room, just try to get it to the center of the room and get it 4 ft away from the walls cuz you got to cut in your ceilings and you need a ladder to do so. So, step number two is you're going to gather all your supplies together. Once I've got myself some working space in this room, I was able to get everything out of this room. There wasn't very much stuff, so I got myself a good clean room with no furniture in it. I'm going to lay down a droploth, and that's going to be where I'm going to begin laying out my supplies. so I can begin working. I'm going to set a drop cloth down. That's where my paint's going to go and all my tools because I don't want to get any paint on the carpet. Then I'm going to begin the next step. So, in order to begin this painting process, you want to have some good quality painting tools. I'm getting all my tools together. I set a drop cloth down. I'm going to begin covering this whole entire room with drop cloth and begin the masking process. But I start off there's a few essential tools you're going to need. And one is a cutting bucket with a roller and a brush. So, I got myself a this I like a 2 gallon cutting bucket and I just use a 1gallon grid inside the bucket. I like a 3-in angled bristle brush right here to do all my painting with on interior painting. I use a 4-in roller with a 3/8 inch mat. That's my cutin setup. On a small room like this, I don't need a really large roller like an 18-in roller. I can just use a 9in roller. So, I got myself a 9-in pan with just a throwaway liner. so I don't have to worry about cleaning my pan. Got myself a 9 in roller with a 38 3/8 in nap uh nap cover on there. Got some holes in the walls. I'm going to be spackling the holes in the walls there. I got a hand masker right here with 1 in tape and 9in paper that we're going to be running around to protect our floors and protect our blinds and stuff with. The tape we're going to be using, I use Frog Tape a lot. And then I use 3M 2020 21-in tape on my interior masking. Got myself a spackle knife to spackle any of the holes. Got a flathead screwdriver cuz I got to remove the switch blades. If I'm going to be cocking my trim, doing our cocking method, I'll be using a cocking gun. Here we got wood trims. We're not going to be doing any any of the um cocking on the wood trim. So, we're just going to be using frog tape. A lot of times we're using a cocking gun. I've got a lot of drop cloths. I use the plastic runners and the actual canvas style drop cloths. Another thing you're going to need is a ladder. So that's kind of some of the basic tools. I also keep myself a razor knife or snap knife cuz if there's any furniture in here, we want to cover it with plastic. We use 9x400 plastic. Always got myself a 5 in1 tool so I can open the paint and do any scraping if I need to. And then I typically carry around a duster brush just to dust off the baseboards, tops of the the the door jambs and window trim. Then I use myself a pair of rubber gloves so I don't get any paint on my hands. So there you have it. There's some of the essential tools. All the tools and accessories that I use and like I keep them down in the video description. You can always find them down there. So um check out the video description or you can find them on my tool store at theidaho.com. But here we go. Let's get going to the next step. So, step number three was getting our drop cloths all laid out. Got them all laid out in this floor the best we can. We don't have any furniture to work around, so we got them all laid out. Now, step number four is masking the room. We're going to be using 9in paper, 1in tape to mask around our baseboard to give a little added protection for anything where the baseboards are or the drop cloths aren't up close to the baseboards. We're going to be putting some masking on our window sills, and then we're going to roll up our blinds, run a piece of masking over the top of those blinds so no paint will drip on those cuz we'll be rolling our ceilings. So, we're going to start this process. This is step number four. As part of step number four, we're going to run around our 1- in tape. We've got our drop cloths down, got our masking paper down, and we're going to run our 1-in tape along our baseboards, door trim, and our window trim. So once step number four is done, I'm going to move on to step number five, and that's removing switch plates and spackling the holes in the walls. So I got switch plates right here. I just want to remove all these switch plates. They're very simple to re remove. I'm just using a flathead screwdriver. Just going to remove the switch plate, put it in a bucket. That way we can paint around it. You don't want to try to cut in around the switch plates. So now I'm getting ready to do the spackling. Got a few holes up here. Got some lightweight spackling and a flexible spackle knife right here to do the spackling. I like a lightweight spackling cuz it's going to dry really fast. Got some small holes just going to spackle them. Wipe the spackling out with my knife. Wipe around it and it's going to dry really fast. We want something that's going to dry fast cuz this room is not going to take me more than 4 hours to paint this room. So I got to have a spackling. It's going to dry fast. So step number six is rolling the first coat on the wall. So we're going to start rolling our first coat. We got this thing all masked off. Going to roll a first coat. We don't want it to be really heavy cuz we want it to dry really fast. We got the heat turned up. We're going to get what we call a skim coat on here and our final coat will be a heavy coat. So here we go with the first coat. Step number six. [Music] So, we got our skim coat. We've ran around skim coat this thing. It's going to dry really fast. Once that's dry, we begin our cut in process. We'll be cutting in the ceilings, be cutting in the corners, and going to be rolling around our switch plates, light switches, and then we will be doing our cut ends along our baseboards and trim. And while that's wet, then you're going to go over it with your second coat. So step number seven is doing our cut in. So here we go. Okay, we're working right along doing our cutins and we're going to start step number eight now and that's rolling our second coat on our walls. And this is there's a lot of different ways you can do this and just depends on how many people you have working with you if you're by yourself or if you've got wood trim that you're um or you got painted trim that you're cocking. And so there's a lot of different methods. I got a bunch of different videos out there showing you different methods of doing this. On this right here, we got wood trim. We're not cocking it. We just got the tape right up next to the wood trim. So we're doing our cutins and then we're going back and rolling our second coat. So, I'm going to be applying this second coat right now. And once again, this is how you roll walls fast. If you want to roll the wall fast, use an 18-in roller. So, now we're on to step number nine, and that's pulling this masking. Once again, this is a crucial step. You don't want to let your paint or cocking and paint dry. So, I'm going to begin pulling all this all the masking off. Step number nine. And I'm working in this room by myself right now. So, I'm just going to pull off this this section right here. Now, the final step, step number 10, is doing the touch-ups and clean up. I'm going to begin cleaning all this stuff up, but but before I clean it up, I got two coats on my walls. I know that's good and and done, but I do I try to do my cutins all around my doors, windows, baseboards, and ceilings all in one coat. And so, I do it really heavy. So, all I got to do is go back and just look for cut or look for touch-ups in those areas. and then pick up all the drop cloths, move out of here, and I'm going to clean my brushes and rollers. And that's a very fast, easy process to do. It only is going to take me about 10 15 minutes.