Painting a Living Room : Painting Living Room Walls

[NickerSkids]

I have painted for 20 years and always done the ceiling first?.

You never stirred the black paint or even gave the can a shake...

Your cutting in isn't bad though.

[guitarbob63]

@NickerSkids

Rule of thumb....Ceiling - Wall - Trim

Tinting the primer a dark grey would help the black cover the white because now you most likely will see white streaks and have to two coat it.....the way it was done here I would have at least wacked the prime spots first with the black then in an hour or so painted the whole thing that way you might get away with one coat...maybe

[criticaltinker]

how to compute the perimiter of all the walls in a room to know how many gallons you'll be needing?

[Dalziels]

@criticaltinker

1. width of all walls added together X height of ceiling = total wall surface.

2. height of window X width of window = window surface.

3. height of door X width of door = door surface.

4. Repeat for each door and window

5. total from #2 and #3 = surface not to be painted.

6. total from line 1. - line 5. = total surface to be painted.

7. total from #6 /divided by Spread rate = gallons of paint for each coat.

Typical coverage is approx. 400 sq. ft per U.S. gallon