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Question about painting walls!

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My roommate and I have to restore our apartment's interior walls to their original color. Some of the walls are dark in color, like a maroon red. They need to be painted a white-ish color. Any tips on how to go from dark-colored to light-colored walls?
 
primer first then the paint, a couple of coats (of the paint) should do it.

edit: the primer basically "covers" the dark color and serves as a base for the new color. primer is much cheaper than the colored paint.
 
Originally posted by: y2kc
primer first then the paint, a couple of coats (of the paint) should do it.

edit: the primer basically "covers" the dark color and serves as a base for the new color. primer is much cheaper than the colored paint.
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Your primers are typically quite thin, with little pigment, and don't usually cover very well. They are used mostly to bond different types of paint together, or to apply to bae wood, drywall, etc.
Your best bet is to buy a high quality paint, apply the first coat, then let dry completely, then apply a second coat. There is a trick called "backrolling", you roll the paint on the wall, and keep an eye on it. As soon as it starts to dry slightly, just roll back over it with a "dry" roller (One you are using, just don't keep dipping it back into the paint.)

The key word here is "QUALITY", the cheap stuff will not cover as well as the Brand names, and would likely require several coats to cover. (Ask my wife about "Wal-Mart" paint, after she put six coats on my daughters kitchen!

Oh Yeah, invest in a 5 Gallon bucket, a "Roller screen", and an extension pole. The pros always use these, it is much better than the roller trays.
 
Buy the best quality paint you can... I bought really good quality, and it was nice and thick, covered well, etc. Then I bought some cheap ceiling paint, the cheapest I could get... Literally I had to put on four coats for it to look white (instead of a very light yellow) ugh!!

 
Painting light over dark is easy. Painting dark over light is difficult.

Why? Since if you miss a tiny spot when painting light over dark, it looks like it is painted perfectly, but the wall looks like there is a shadow on it. No one can tell that you actually painted poorly.

If you miss a tiny spot when painting dark over light, even Hellen Keller could see that you painted poorly. There would be a very visible bright spot in the middle of your dark wall.


Start with a primer. (A) It is cheap so you don't have to use much of your good quality paint. (B) More importantly, your real paint will stick to the old paint for much longer - you won't have to repaint in a few years. Edit: I just reread that you are moving, so you can forget (B). But still, save money with the primer.

Then paint your real paint and you'll be done.
 
apply a primer then two coats of your color of choice.

<~~ was a painter for some construction business.
 
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