Painting advice please!?

It will probably take two gals per room, no need to prime, buy a quality paint and apply liberally , or you will need two coats.

Hi,

Actually you're in a pretty good situation painting-wise. No, you do not need to prime the walls. The flat cream is a perfect finish to paint over. The only factor that will change this is the color you choose. If you stay with the off-whites you can get away with one coat. However, if you choose darker colors, you may have to do two coats for solid coverage. As for the amount needed per room? To paint the room correctly you will need about 1 and a 3rd gallon to one and a half per room. Rolling a room is an art. Use a 1/2 inch nap roller. Make sure the roller stays full of paint at all times. Never press your roller dry, this destroys the roller quickly. With a full roller, make a simple N pattern up and down on the wall no more than three roller widths wide. Repeat this two or three times on the wall getting the paint product on. Then back roll up and down until you reach the the place where you started, now your ready for the final roll. Keep your up and down stroke uniform on this final pass, do not bear down on the roller keeping it full and fluffy with paint, just let it do its job. Make sure you do all of you cutting in with the brush before you roll, and use a good angle latex brush. If you're a novice, a 2 1/2 inch brush will work nice for you. May I suggest You buy an egg-shell sheen enamel latex. This paint will give you the softness of a flat, yet it will be more durable and washable in the long-run.Have fun. Larry

Walls only need to be primed if they have never been painted before, have stains are water damage that was repaired, or if the color is darker than what you will paint it. You DO want to take a little TSP and clean the walls FIRST so that the paint clings to the old paint and not the dirt and grime. If they are lightly colored and flat paint, you should have no need to prime. As for the amount of paint, I always go to the paint calculator on the Behr website. I like to buy just a little more than I need so that I have some leftover for touchups, like filling a paint hole or scratch the wall.

The information from the other answerers is good but I have several comments:

You question suggests that the walls are too dirty for washing but a light washing is always appropriate before painting. If they are dirty with magic marker or oily residue they will have to be sealed but only the stained portions. Kilz is a good product for this. If the color is very similar and there are no contrasting stains one coat of a quality paint will do but if you are changing colors you may need to use more than one coat. That makes it hard to specify exactly how much paint you will need but cheap paint will never cover in one coat.

Don't waste your time priming! But make sure you buy GOOD paint! You need a thicker paint with what they call good hide. Behr or Ralph Lauren would be good. It is a little more expensive but you will also use less.Pick a color that is close to what you have on the wall now. Stick with flat, it hides imperfections on your wall better. You can get the paint at Home Depot.

Prime painted walls are best, but I have gotten away many years worth with just painting over flat paint (not oily or greasey).Yes 1 gallon should cover 1 room average with extra to spare. Buy good Quality paint and you will not have to coat twice.....

You should not need to prime, but clean the walls and let them dry completely before you start to paint.

I recently painted my 10x10x8 room with less than one gallon of paint (actually only about 5 pints) so that should be enough.

i do no longer think of it extremely is going to look disgusting and dark and boring. How would desire to purple partitions look boring? unsure how relaxing that would desire to be for a mattress room, yet once you like a sprint zing on your life, this might easily do it. stay faraway from the lipstick reds, nevertheless. they might tend to make your room look neon. and that i do no longer think of that's what you go with. i might additionally say, use purely neutrals as a compliment. The white and gold may be high-quality. purely as long as you haven't any longer have been given gold occurring everywhere. Even your artwork would desire to be impartial, or your mattress room will look like a three-ring circus. according to probability black and white prints may be maximum suitable. i might additionally be constructive you stream-line issues. too a lot muddle will make the room look too busy with such good partitions. for my section, I painted my customer room Benjamin Moore's 'flavor of berry.' a lot extra of a deep pink than a purple. yet very good for me, none the fewer. I did as you're doing...I even have an old white steel mattress in there with old white bedding. The textile cabinet is an old mahogany piece. and that i positioned a small old gold chandelier overhead, and an ornate old gold replicate on the wall. It get's a lot of compliments and that i do love lounging around in there. good success! desire this helps.

nutral color walls don't needed to have a coat of primer, it will make the colors look better thought. depends on if you use primer or not