DIY Painting (3)

The third installment of the DIY Painting series. Today I’m finally gonna talk about how to actually go about painting.

But before that, here are some of the pictures of my preparation before painting.

Removing Ceiling Lights.Makes it easier to paint the ceilings

Removed window grills as well.

Cleaning the walls and ceiling to remove dust and cobwebs.

Putty the ceiling holes from the light. Thinking to change another light.

After doing all the preparation work as described in DIY Painting (2), we are now ready to paint.

We will first paint a coat of the sealer or more commonly known as base paint. This sealer as the name suggests contains chemicals that will help bond the paint to the wall. You can choose to omit this step but it’s recommended especially if your home is a bit humid as it will help to prevent paint from bubbling and peeling later on.

In terms of painting techniques, there isn’t really much (amateur painters here). First of all cut the sides. Meaning using a paintbrush just paint the “sides” which can be side of door frame, window frame, sockets etc. These places can’t be painted using rollers. Will be quite messy if you do so.

Cutting the sides with paintbrush

After cutting the sides, just go all out with the roller. Just roll on some paint on the paint tray and make sure it isn’t not dripping. Then just roll, roll and roll.

Darren my man!! Painting the ceiling.

Once you’re done with the sealer coat. Just wait for everything to dry up and then proceed to paint the colours you want. You will need 2 coats to get good results. If not you may find that the paint is uneven. Oh yeah, please paint the ceilings first, then the walls.

Darren painting my feature wall.

Painting Battlezone.

So once you’ve got 2 coats on, we’re all done. Just clean up the battlezone and enjoy. It will take some time and effort to paint the whole house. And please do expect some aches here and there especially your arms, shoulder, neck and back. The ceilings are harder to paint as you have to kinda look up all the time. Painting the walls are probably 2-3 times faster compared to painting the ceilings.

Overall we took about 2 and half days to completely paint the whole house inclusive of preparation work, actual painting and cleaning up. We would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to Darren whom spent 2 days to help us paint. Sob sob… really appreciate it. Without him, we would have at least needed another day to complete the task.

Finally do check out the before and after picture for the living room. Just looking at the end results will make all the aches and pains fade away. My new home is beginning to take shape…

Before

After