How to Paint Your Living Room with Dark Colors for Intense Finish?

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RajkaranYou need a bit extra effort and preparation when it comes to paint your living room walls in dark colors than painting your walls in light colors. If you are selecting the color for wall painting, consider having the measurement of your room and the amount of sunlight it receives all day long. Rooms may have with dark colors if they are starved for bright sunlight.

How to Do?

1.Pull out picture hangers, nails and spackle holes and let it dry to prepare the walls for paint. Sand the spackles wisely to get it smooth. Mainly in case of textured walls, spackle holes of nails in small spots. You can buy sprayed applicators and texture products.

2. Remove all the trims and moldings from walls, if any. If you can’t, apply masking tape that are bleed-resistant to ceiling trim.

3.Use primer to prime the walls which are tinted deeply with dark color. Especially when you have to paint over light or white walls, it is important. For tinted primer, make sure to shave the third paint coat.

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4. Have a bucket of 5 gallon and stir in the paint if you want to paint above 1 gallon of paint to avoid reflection from sunlight.

5.Along the perimeter, cut in with sash brush at the walls, around the walls and at corners. Just after cutting in any particular wall, paint other walls. In the wet edge, don’t let the stripes to be created by painting wet edge of paint.

6.With roller applicator, paint the wall in pattern with appropriate nap of semi-smooth, smooth or rough roller cover. To go faster with your paint job, screw roller on the roller extension and eliminate the change of climbing or bending the ladder to paint.

7.From side by side, cross around the W pattern for several times until you cover the wall evenly by using the paint. Make sure to have paint on roller that is enough to avoid the sound while applying the roller. If this sound occurs, then your roller may not have sufficient paint.

8.Paint first coat on every part of the wall and let it dry for around 6 hours. Use lids to cover cans or buckets filled with paint. Put in the brushes and roller head in the tray to have them engrossed in paint. Close the string and slip garbage plastic bag over the roller tray. This way, you can keep your brush, roller and paint wet for longer period.

9.Over the first coat, have the second one in identical way. Let it dry throughout the night. Store roller and brushes in plastic bag.

10.If you have dark red color to paint, have a third coat if it not appears bold as you want it to be. Especially dark red, some dark colors need around 3 coats, either with or without primer. Let them dry throughout the night. Store the roller and brushes in plastic bag again.

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