I hope you guys take the time to make this a series, a comprehensive, cataloged, beginners video on how to do household things in layman's terms, alongside the quickies. A great addition to the channel. Thank you.
This is almost verbatim what Lowe’s put in their video 4 years ago except it puts into account the criticism their video got and nifty used it to their advantage
Literally just painted my entire apartment following these instructions. I had no idea it would be this straight forward. Especially the tip with the spackle. I can’t believe how easy this is to do
I'm a house painter and I think this video's pretty spot-on. I always use dish soap for my brushes and those hook thinks are one of the most useful tools you can have. Please make more of these.
You can use paint stripper as long as you protect your floor with a tarp and some tape and keep a window open to avoid breathing in the fumes too much. Apply the paint stripper, allow it to act, and scrape it off. If some paint didn't come off, apply more paint stripper. When you're done, wash off the paint stripper residue with water and sodium carbonate (or just dish soap). If you have concerns about the paint stripper damaging the baseboards, test it out in a place that's not very visible first. You can also use a hot air gun but only if your baseboards are made out of wood (or they'll melt) but be careful not to burn your baseboards. Warm the paint with the hot air gun until it starts to form bubbles on the surface, then just scrape the paint off with a scraper. Just keep in mind that it's much easier to damage the wood using this technique (also, you might burn yourself) so go at it gently. If you're feeling brave (or hate your back) you can try sanding.
@@25566 not really worth trying to strip it off. You take a 5 in 1 or something like a putty knife to get off any drips or anything to make it uneven then put a couple coats on it and it'll look brand new. Not really sure you'd want to take the old.paint off but that's a bigger project than worth.
it's worth. Sahasrahla not sure how you're a painter and didn't say anything about that baseboard she left with no blue and gray paint all over the trim. OCD started to kick in when I saw she left it there😆
Mostly good advice, but NEVER store your wet paintbrush upright to dry! The water sinks to the bottom and either warps the brush or messes up the adhesive and you lose chunks of bristles. Lay flat or even better reshape and hang from the handle to dry
Thank you, this helped a lot! As an alternative to wearing old clothes, I would also recommend covering yourself with something disposable. Today me and my grandmother Painted her kitchen and we wore disposable gloves and a plastic swimming cap on our heads. Instead of changing our clothes, we each got a massive trash bag a d put our head and arms through and wore it as a smock which covered our whole bodies. True, it does look a bit awkward, especially with the plastic cap, but it really helps keep our clothes clean. I also recommend taking time to relax in between and to do other things so it doesn't feel like it drags on. Halfway through Painting today, my grandmother made dinner, and I took off my shoes, gloves and smock (but for some reason left the cap on my head 😂), and I sat on the sofa, got comfortable, turned the TV, and, as it was a cold day, I got under a blanket to cover my whole body to warm up, and I sat for about a half hour relaxing with a hot mug of tea which my grandmother made me, before putting on another smock and pair of gloves and getting back to work.
Fun tip: Before using the part of the roller that absorbs paint, put tape over it to get all the fuzzies off so that later it doesn't stick to the wall and ruin your finish.
I’ve painted so many walls in my life and it’s always good to get a quick refresher course before tackling a new project just to get the cobwebs out. Thank you, great video.
Great video for home use! A few things were off, as some have mentioned but overall, thats my go-to way of painting. One tip: If your like me and not single, you may get interrupted by kids, hubs, errands, chores. In your paint tray and handheld paint bucket, you can use the liners she mentioned, they sell both at the store. But you can also use plastic bags for both! For the paint tray I use about 6gal trash bags with open edge towards the deeper end then tape closed. For the hand bucket I use bread loaf bags ( can be found in food storage bag area of some stores) or other similar small bags. Then when you are interrupted, simply cover the tray with another bag and tape or tie closed, and tie closed the bag in hand bucket with itself or a rubber band, making sure no holes are open. When you are ready to paint the next time, your paint is readily available with no crusty, dry crumbs that can ruin a paint job.
Yesterday was my first day at Home Depot in the paint department, and I have no idea what I'm doing 😂 this was a valuable video. The sheen was the most confusing part for me to understand, but you summed everything up very well.
Uhhh. I work for a paint store where we deal with a lot of professional contractors and they do use tape. A lot of it. Never let your brushes dry upright! Id recommend a Purdy XL 2.5 brush. It’s universal as hell. If you take care of it properly with cleaning, it’ll last for several projects.
Never painted a room in my life..i recently bought a home and I wanted to paint myself although my aister done most of thr painting😄 I wanted to paint the 2 rooms i had left..i followed this video and bought supplies and painted and cant tell you how proud I am of myself..this video was very helpful 😎
Dont leave your brush with the bristles up, this causes the water to pool in the base, which will take forever to dry and eats away at the adhesive. You will then be left with a paintbrush that continually looses hairs...
Advice: do not patch the holes that way. You can clearly see that the patch shrunk down and the hole is still noticeable. Filling takes about 2-3 coats depending on the size, with sanding in between to make it flush with the walls.
There's also a mesh tape that you can use when repairing smaller things on drywall, it saves a lot of spackle since its not just falling in the hole every time you add more.
@@K.RenaeReacts im gonna paint my room and its already painted a peach color. do you have any tips? I am finding it hard to see the swatches' true colors cus my room's color is distorting how the paint swatches look.
Wow! That was the most in-depth tutorial I’ve seen thus far. Beats Home Depot’s any day. Thank you. Now this girl feels empowered to paint her bedroom and bathroom! 😊
this is great. at my art school we fully repaint the walls and floors every year before the degree show, i'll keep this in mind for next time i'm painting.
Thank you for this video. Me and my husband has some friends come over to help us repaint our master bedroom. I made them all watch this video first before helping. This video also help me better understand the different finishes and how to pick the right one for my room. Thank you!
thats the difference between a pro job and a DIY job, the pros cut damn near perfect lines with the roof and trim, true you dont need to obsess over it, but if you actually do take the time to cut your lines as perfectly as you can it makes a HUGE difference.
Thanks for keeping it so simple. I'm attacking a room and am fairly clueless. I've painted before but I just wanted a simple, friendly reminder without judgey Home Depot eyes ;-) I enjoyed watching!
This video was scary perfect! Like every question I had was answered and even the stuff I forgot about or didn’t know was mentioned. Thank you soooo much ! 😭🙏🏼✨✨✨✨
One of the best how to paint videos! The biggest reason I was afraid to paint was because I was afraid I couldn't get perfect lines at the top of the walls and baseboards, now I know they dont need to be perfect.
Thank you so much for this. I'm going to give this a go. I'm UK based, but your instructions/advice were so clear, that I'm sure I'll be able to source a lot of the items here!
When cutting, you always want to tap the bottom of the brush after you soak it in paint so that the paint seeps into the bristles and then wipe off the sides that way majority of the paint is in the brush and you have better control of how much paint goes on the wall.
Thank you for a great video! I love to paint walls. I do it intuitively and, thanks to this video, I realized I was doing many things wrong. I really appreciate the simple, yet very useful tip of covering the roller with plastic instead of cleaning it if I want to continue painting the next day.
It doesn't change the size of the room. If you're anything like me, you need the subdued visuals, not the "pop". f you were looking to sell it or renting out your rooms like a BnB, that's different.
Right. I don't care about what is "seems" to do for the room. I like dark. I wanna feel comfortable in MY space. Do what you like. Don't let people tell you what to do, if you hate it but it's "what everyone else does..." who tf cares about that. Really.
For the love of everything, wash the walls with tsp, rinse the walls, and then paint. I’m always shocked at how gross the water is after washing, and the paint adheres so much better
If you can't move large sofas or furniture out then move them into the middle of the room and cover them with a large dust sheet/drop cloth etc. Even better, you can buy sofa and chair covers which are essentially polythene bags and are easy to slide on and off. It won't 100% guarantee you don't get paint on the couch (sometimes it can bleed through) but it worked for us! We had one left over from when we moved house. Also, get liners for your cutting can (paint kettle, whatever you prefer to call it) as well as the tray. You can use bin bags (trash bags) for both if you don't have any plastic liners or can't get hold of them for whatever reason. Small roller (4-6 inch) will also work for tighter areas and I much prefer them to having to turn a bigger roller, plus they are good for going around plug sockets/outlets. Depends on the configuration of your room though, obviously. I've used a cheap comb to get pain out of brushes as well and those 5-in-1 tools are great for cleaning rollers and other jobs too; they are fairly inexpensive- I think mine cost about £6 and there are loads available in DIY stores and online.
When that “awful blue color” is the one I intentionally chose to paint my room a couple years ago and I’m sitting here in the room watching her call it awful LMAOOOOO
I wouldn't do it that way unless the holes are very tiny. Notice she didn't fill the hole properly. larger holes need a decent wad of filler forced into them. Then knife off the excess.
00:54 - Picking a color 02:33 - Picking a sheen 04:51 - Materials & supplies 06:42 - Prepping your space 08:16 - Painting your walls 12:08 - ASMR 12:42 - Cleanup & care
Thanks for the advice, it helped me a lot! I was using one roll in the morning and another one in the afternoon then I would just throw them away. After your advice I’m using just one in the morning, then leaving it covered and using it again in the afternoon and washing it in the end. It gave me more confidence to paint more areas in the house!
I'm a professional painter and I must say, this is by far the best one of these instructional painting videos I've ever seen. Most of them are made by so called pros and they're awful. The only thing I heard that wasnt completely accurate in my experience was matte paint being easiest to apply. But thats not picky and probably a bit of a personal opinion. Honestly, all terminology and instructions are dead on how I do things daily.
It will take you a year to paint your house how this idiot did it and it will end up looking like crap. There are much better videos on painting out there.
Hey no one is pointing this out, so I will. I've been watching a few videos on painting rooms, and I have found a few similarities between this video and Lowes' video on painting rooms. "Resist the urge to fully submerge the roller" is mentioned in this video as well as in Lowes' video. Another similarity is the recommendation for cleaning your brushes/rollers, with the two videos telling you to reshape your brush after cleaning and to use a 5-in-one tool to clean rollers. These two examples that I found occurred to me randomly, and I find it pointless to research this further, as I do not want any violence (and I'm pretty sure this comment won't get seen), but there may be more similarities that I have missed, so yeah.
watch this video (or the entire series) posted back in 2013 if you really want to see some similarities: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--v-KAOgFlVU.html they just copied his videos point blank down to the wording, very disappointing they can get away with this
You really know your stuff. I'm definitely gonna be referring to this for a refresher if I decide to paint some rooms at home at the end of the summer...
I just love the details and guidelines given in the video, not ashamed of being taught this manly work from a woman, actually its a lot good to point out all the details as man lacks them everytime. Keep it up
Just a few thing - tape your trim when you paint walls. Just because professionals don't tape doesn't mean you shouldn't tape because chances are you're not a professional. - textures ceilings need a special coat over top of them before you paint because if you don't they will dissolve (or at least thats what the nice lady that works at Rona told me) - If the room has walls that come together at a 25° angle, try to paint as much of the corner and walls that meet to make the corner as you can before using a roller, i kept scraping the opposite side and it was very tedious. - only mix the colours together in a bucket if you have a lid, you don't always paint a room completely in a day :) - Use primer if you are painting a very different colours, not just a different shade :) -dont wash you brushes or rollers in the sink unless you have something to catch the paint. My sink is still clogged
forgot to mention water based vrs oil based colors. The ones used in the vid are water based. FYI Oil based would be suitable for wooden surfaces or wooden walls, but that's a whole other video I guess.
Oil would be use on exterior wood, don't use it on interior wood for a start it's highly toxic and sticks but it also white will turn yellow if not exposed to sunlight, a Water based trim paint will say whiter for much longer. and it doesn't smell.. and drys quicker which is always a plus.
I don't remember her saying anything about ventilation, so here are a few tips from my experience. If it's a bedroom you are painting, please consider the season you are in and if you should be painting during that time. Plan to sleep in another room of the house until your project is completely finished. I made the mistake of painting during a really cold winter and I had to open the windows to let fresh air in. Low odor cans of paint can help with the smell, but nevertheless they still do strongly smell if you are covering large areas. Cheap respirator masks can only protect you from breathing sanding and other particles, temporarily. Invest in a face mask that can protect you from those particles and possibly the smell too, if its too strong. You can try covering your mouth and nose with a shirt around your neck, but I don't know how effective that would be in blocking out the smell of paint. Hope this helps.
They sell liners for the red pail bucket. Much easier. I recommend the Pelican hand-held pail by Wooster because not only can you use a paint brush, but it also allows for a 4-inch paint roller to be used as well. There is a magnet for the paint brush and you can leave the paint roller by hanging it in by the handle. It is super convenient.
I want to say this is the best paint instructional video i have ever watched. I am such a detail person and i wish i watched this before i messed up my walls. Nevertheless, perfect for me.
I have to disagree about the painter's tape. I've painted the entire interior of a 2,000sq ft house and Frogtape was FAR superior to the blue stuff. And if you are patching a hole with a raised edge (most nails pull up a bit of drywall when they are pulled out), give it a tap with a hammer so you can spackle the wall levelly.
Most well made putty knives and 5in1s have a metal end that we use to slightly indent the imperfection before filling....a hammer is overkill and drywall is soft
Crazy I used the blue tape in a old maintenance job (although my pay should of been way higher since that's not really a duty of that place) it really sucks doesn't have much stick to it. Specially for the circle windows on doors.
I didn't know about the controversy, I've seen the other videos, but I like more Stephanie's. The gardening journal and the mental health month were my favorites.
I’m a professional painter and I have been painting for 10 years and I only use tape on the baseboard And one fact is that all the customers want their lines unbelievable
I don’t know you’re budget but I would personally recommend a Titan airless sprayer. For the bigger cutting in jobs with a spray guide attachment. Leaves very little mess if practiced!
