Preparing to Paint a Kitchen

Video Transcript

"Okay, so our next step in painting the kitchen now that we have all of our materials and tools in place is getting the room prepped. So that includes removing furniture which we've already done. And removing any type of knick knacks which you can see we already have. But we do have to remove the blinds and the cover. So I'm going to get my ladder set up and I'm going to grab a couple screwdrivers. Let's see. This blind is pretty easy to come off. Usually just little piece that hold it in place and it slides right out. Now sometimes when you want to be a little more fussy with the woodwork you're going to remove all the hardware for painting and then put it back on but for this case since we're going to just remount the blinds I think I'm just going to leave it on. Next thing we want to do is go ahead on and remove all the outlet covers. We only have one here so let me grab my screwdriver. Take care of that. Now you want to be organized about saving the screws. A little trick that a lot of people like to do is to take the screw and put it right back in the hole and just screw it in just a little bit so it's there when you're looking for it later. Next we want to get everything covered that's not going to be painted. So we want to protect the floor and the counter tops. So I'm going to grab my drop cloths. Let me lay this out here. Next we're also going to drop cloth all the counter tops and cabinets with plastic to prevent any paint from getting on them as well. What we're going to do is we're going to protect this back splash here. We're going to use painters tape. And what I'm going to do is I'm just going to use tape along the edge and I'm going to leave this part loose so that I can put plastic underneath that. Continuing around the edge with the tape. Get that all covered. And now it's time to grab our plastic. Just going to need a little bit over here so I'm just going to kind of measure it out by hand, unroll it. And then we're going to cut very carefully with our razor knife. We'll completely be creative in covering all the areas that we want to make sure to don't get paint in. Okay, so now that we've prepared our room we can begin to prepare our surfaces for painting."