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Paint an Accent Mantel and Walls

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What happens here

For an accent mantel, first apply the desired accent color. After the accent color has dried, mask off the mantel. Then, proceed to paint the surrounding walls with the main wall color. The recommended order is to always paint trim first, including wood trim and mantels, before painting the walls. This approach simplifies the masking process significantly, reducing the risk of overspray on finished wall surfaces. If walls are painted first, overspray from trim application would necessitate extensive and difficult masking of the already painted walls, leading to more work and potential imperfections. For instance, overspray from painting a brown mantel would require meticulously masking the white walls, a much more challenging task than masking the mantel itself.

Goal: The painter explains the process of painting an accent mantel and clarifies the optimal painting order for walls and trim, demonstrating masking techniques.

Tools and materials

  • Accent Color Paint
  • Airless Spray Gun
  • Masking Paper/Plastic
  • Masking Tape
  • Wall Color Paint

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coats and done it was um how about this so scuff tff uh scuff tff mat so um when I was shooting this stuff people were like I'm going to be sanding out drips and runs for days and apparently there's no drips and runs to sand out so um this stuff hangs pretty well um dries fast I got to say um for all the people that thought I was going to be you s out drips and runs not one run not one sag not bad for scuff tff and uh not bad for never even spraying it before I got to say you know first time I've ever sprayed it it's pretty userfriendly um I would say uh probably a great product for somebody that even doesn't have experience spraying to learn on it I think it's probably you know the learning curve uh would be a little bit shorter than even Emerald urethane said Matt walls for kids yes um so yeah matte walls for kids but it's scuff tff and so it's uh when you read the TDS on it it's meant for high traffic areas in commercial buildings and so I know um you know there's multiple products out there like um Benjamin more scuff a and people were raving about that you know being scuff resistant so I I think like you know here it is that's Matt and um we're going to see we're going to find out like a year after a thousand kids have run through here how many how many sanding and Bondo and you do that on that yeah so that Manel um that was I spackled it sand it bonded it sanded it primed it sanded it Bondo it sanded it Bondo it shot a coat sanded it shot a coat done so and and this is two Co are you going to be done with the door after two Co so the door's done two coats so um I got to say like this is duration exterior I have a lot of experience yo spraying this stuff if you look at this color right here one thing uh that's you got to understand this door was Pure White uh when I sprayed it and one coat was it was covered in one coat so I was actually blown away I thought I was going to have to shoot on a P3 uh gray primer on it uh before the red and so I was like oh no man but I was like I'll shoot one coat and see how it goes and holy cow it was covered in see theen bathro yeah let's go see the green bathroom um let me take this off so check out this is look at that got to fix my line there um so two coats we'll go check out the bathroom it's matte um Matt scuff tff so look at that that is what I call pretty sick it's still wet a little bit uh it's still wet I just sprayed it but look at that finish man look at that finish yeah baby let's go there's a big Mark…

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