Noblesville interior rooms

Ryan and I finished up a large interior painting project on Friday.  Our customer is putting her house up for sale so we prepped and painted ceilings and walls in the family room, kitchen, entryway, stairwell, hallways, and master bedroom and bath. We put two coats of Sherwin Williams ProMar 200 in an eg-shell finish. We used "Eminence" ceiling paint. This was a difficult project because of all the stained wood trim that we had to ensure we kept the paint off and also clean up the trim that had paint on it from the previous painter. This slowed us down considerably.  It turned a 4 day project into 5 days.

Steps:

1.  Sanded all the walls;
2.  Washed all the walls;
3. Spackled all the holes and other dings;
4. Lightly sanded all the areas we spackled with 220 grade sandpaper;
5. Caulked with quick drying caulk (Bolt) all the cracks between the walls and trim;
6. Touched up the trim with matching brown paint so the previous paint would not show and also get a better cut-line;
7. Taped out all the trim in order to keep our paint off the trim;
8. Painted ceilings;
9. Applied first coat of paint and let dry for 4 hours;
10. Applied second coat of paint;
11. Applied a bead of caulk around the bathroom sinks and also the kitchen sinks. It makes such a difference in appearance plus better in areas where there is a lot of moisture;
12. Pulled all the tape;
13. Touched up all trim in order to ensure tight cut-lines; and 
14. Vacuumed.

Challenges:

• The brown stained trim made it more difficult for a couple of reasons. It had a lot of paint on it from the previous painter and it had never been caulked in. In order to have straight cut-lines, you need to caulk and touch-up the top lip in order to look professional and clean.  
• The crown molding had a very small lip that made it difficult to touch up the paint that was on it. We had to apply the brown paint over the stain and not worry about getting some on the wall and then cut-in the wall.  We used brown paint because a matching stain just would not cover very well because of the yellow paint on the stained trim.

Lessons learned:

• Caulk in trim after you paint the walls because tape does not adhere very well to caulk and it will seep plus pull away;
• Apply the touch-up paint to the trim before you put the wall paint on in order to get better cut-lines. 

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