How to paint an entire room - the professional painters way

Whether you’ve decided to tackle painting a room yourself, or you’ve hired some professional painters to come and do it for you; did you know there is in fact a proper way in which to paint an entire room?

The order in which you paint all the surfaces in the room is SUPER important, and will actually save you time AND money!

As a general rule in professional painting, you should always be starting at the top and working your way down. This goes for surfaces, as well as the way you approach each surface with the paint.

So what are we talking about?

Well, let’s say you are painting your ceiling, walls, doors, as well as trim.

You should always be painting your ceiling before you paint any other surfaces. As with any time you are using paint, it is likely to have some drips, and is ideal that if they are to happen, that they are dripping on walls that haven’t been painted yet. Did you know that if you are painting the whole room, you can and actually are encouraged to get some of that ceiling paint on the top of the walls as well? Talk about a time saving tip! Also, if you ensure that you overlap the ceiling paint onto the walls, you are actually ensuring that when you go to paint the walls, that you have a nice fresh start to getting that perfect ceiling cut line!

The next area you would want to paint is the trim. The reason for painting the trim second, is actually the same as the ceiling. Make sure that when you are painting the trim, you go over onto the walls so that you have a nice blank slate to make that amazing cut line with the wall paint next to! If you’ve ever painted just the trim of your space, you know how tricky it can be to make those cut lines on the side of the trim, without making a mess. AND how much longer it takes.

Now that you’ve got your ceiling and your trim painted, the next step is to paint the walls. Again, our approach is to start at the top and work our way down on each surface. A good method to remember on any surface you are painting is “top to bottom, left to right”. That means starting in your top left corner and working your way across and down the wall, trim, or whatever it may be.

Next up you will want to paint your doors. Now technically you could do this at any phase of the painting. We typically like to do them last if it makes sense to, to eliminate the risk of any of the other products dripping on them and needing a touch up after. But it’s totally up to you! You can see how they could fit in almost anywhere in this painting equation.

Of course there are exceptions to any rule, but now you’ve got a general idea of how to approach painting any room to do it in the fastest and most time efficient way.

If you don’t feel comfortable tacking any aspect of your room, you can always contact us for a referral partner in your area.