Painting a Room - What order to paint?

Question

My room is ready to paint (had to prime everything to get walls clean and smooth) do I paint the ceilings first? walls, trim? or trim, ceilings, walls? ceiling will be white, trim will be white and walls will be yellow.....

Answer 1

the easiest way to paint a room is ceilings first then trim (except baseboards) then walls. this way you dont have to worry about cutting in staight lines on the sides of the trim and the ceiling until you paint the wall. you also wait to paint the baseboards until last to because there will be splatter from rolling the walls.good luck:)

Answer 2

I've always found it easier to paint the celing first, that way you don't have to be so careful with getting paint on the walls. Be sloppy, it doesn't really matter. Then paint the trim. If you are using Latex, go ahead and get the trim paint on the walls too. When you are finally ready to paint the walls, use a method called tape-caulking.



Trust me on this point, and you'll have a professional quality paint job. Apply blue painter's masking tape around the ceiling, and around the trim leaving a 1/16 inch gap away from the wall. Take a tube of painter's caulk, in a caulk gun (preferably Sherwin Williams or Kwal caulk), cut the very tip off the caulk tube, making a very small hole (about 1/16 of an inch), run a very thin line of caulk over the tape (right where the tape meets the walls) and smooth it out with a wet rag. You should have an almost transparent layer of caulk left. Let it dry for a little while.



Now, cut in with your wall paint, 2 coats. Then roll the walls, 2 coats.



Professional paint job.

Answer 3

Paint the ceiling and the trim first. The reason I say trim before walls is, it is much easier to cut in along a straight wall than trying to carefully paint trim. Just keep a damp rag in hand to wipe off any drips immediately.

This was a tip from a professional painter and I have to say makes a lot of sense. I found it to be much easier and in the end a better result.

Good Luck Painting

Answer 4

ceiling, trim, wall,

make sure to have some of the trim color left over to cover any spots where you accidently get yellow on it

Answer 5

Painting A Room

Answer 6

Celings first, walls second, trim last.

Answer 7

Paint ceiling first.

Before painting any wall, "Cut in" along the ceiling corners with a brush or small roller, being careful not to touch ceiling, then use roller to finish. Finish with trim.

Answer 8

Ceiling, walls trim

Answer 9

I always do ceiling, walls then trim. Painting the ceiling will cause some drips, so do it first, or you'll drip on the newly painted wall. Trim last because I always use a brush, and end up needing less touch up work that way.

Answer 10

I'M A UNION PAINTER..I CAN ANSWER THIS ONE. ALWAYS,ALWAYS THE CEILINGS FIRST. THEN IF YOUR WALLS WILL BE ANOTHER COLOR THAN THE CEILING. CUT ON TOP OF THE BASE TRIM FIRST..BRING YOUR CORNERS UP TO THE CEILING..THEN CUT THE CEILING IN LAST. REASON BEING YOU WANT TO ROLL THE WALL WHILE THE CEILING CUT IS STILL WET. THE PAINT WILL DRY EVENLY.(DARK COLORS ARE A MUST)

OR ELSE YOU WILL SEE LIGHT CUT MARKS ON THE MAIN FOCAL POINT...WHERE WALL MEETS CEILING. IF THE TRIM IS GOING TO BE PAINTED...IT'S OKAY TO RIDE THE TOP OF YOUR TRIM WITH THE WALL COLOR..IT'S A PRIMER FOR THE TRIM!! ONCE MY WALLS ARE ALL ROLLED DOWN I DO ALL OF MY TRIM WORK ONCE I MAKE SURE ALL THE BASE IT CAULKED TO THE WALL..DOOR CASINGS,WINDOW TRIM..EVERYTHING GETS CAULKED.