How to Prepare a Room for Painting

Series Summary

Sometimes single colored walls are too boring to endure. Sometimes you have to throw caution to the wind and throw some more paint on those walls. A great way to decorate boring walls is to paint stripes on the walls. Painting stripes on a wall breaks up the monotony of the solid colored wall and is actually rather easy to do, with the right instruction of course. If you would like to learn how to paint striped walls to decorate your home, you can learn for free from one of our experts.

In this free how to video series, learn from expert Melissa Schenk how to paint stripes on your walls. Melissa will show you how to prepare a room for painting, how to apply the base coat of paint on a wall, how to measure for painting stripes on a wall, how to draw paint lines with a laser level, how to tape for painting stripes, and how to remove painter's tape after painting.

Video Transcript

"Hello! My name is Melissa Schenk and on behalf of Expert Village, today I'm going to teach you how to paint a room with stripes. In this clip, we need to first start off by prepping our walls and our room for that matter. When you first start paining any room, whether it be just adding one coat of paint onto the walls or one color, or painting stripes as we're doing in this case, you want to empty out the room best you possibly can. You might have a few things you're working around. That's acceptable, but you've got to get the most you possibly can out of the room. First and foremost, you may need to clean your walls. It could be a brand new home with drywall dust still lingering in house. If you do have any drywall dust on your walls, you're going to want to wash the walls and also, your base boards. Base boards are really bad for collecting dust. What I've got with me here is my washing bucket and with my cloth with diluted soap solution. Soap and water diluted. You don't need a lot. You just want to give it a good cleaning and then rinse it out again and even just do some straight water. You don't want a lot. You just do a light dusting right there just to get any dust off. It could be any drywall dust for that matter as well. First and foremost, clean and prep your walls. Let it dry. They're not going to be that wet, but you don't want to go any further until you've let it dry for just a little bit of time. I'll see in the next clip."