How To Spray a Room for a Professional Finish

Hello!  I get asked often how to spray a room for a professional finish.  So as I was redoing my daughters rooms I made sure to take pictures!  Let me first start by saying I will only spray a room that does not have carpet...why?  It seems no matter how hard I try to tape everything off somehow I still get paint on the floor underneath.  When you have a wood, or tile floor it is easy clean up.....carpet.....not so easy.

To spray a room you will need: (affiliate links)

• Latex Paint - I used Benjamin Moore White Dove for the Moldings and Halo for the Shiplap
• Primer
• Paint Brush
• Tape
• Floetrol
• Masking Paper
• Paint Gun (my personal favorite)
• Paint Mask

The first think you want to do is tape off the floor.  After the floor was taped off I painted my baseboards.  I did paint them with a brush.  I add floetrol to my paint to eliminate the look of brush marks.  As you can see I was not worried about being careful to not get paint on the wall above as I am going to go back and paint all of that.  

Once my baseboard were dry I added paper to the floor EVERYWHERE!  there is a lot of overspray so anything you don't want paint on MUST be covered.

After the floor had all the paper down I went back and taped off the moldings

I also tape the paper over the baseboards down to the floor so it does not fly up as I am spraying.

I also tape off my windows and outlets so they stay free of paint as well.  I wanted the shelves to be the same color as the molding so I taped them off too.

Once everything is taped off and covered it is time for paint!

Since I used hardboard to create my faux shiplap (tutorial here)  It has to be primed first.

This is my favorite paint sprayer. It is a Graco Truecoat (link here)   It is great for little jobs and you don't have to thin your paint!!

I applied 2 coats of primer and 2 coats of my latex paint.  After I had sprayed everything I let it dry over night before I removed the paper.  You may need to do touch ups with a paint brush.  I would recommend doing that before you pull all your paper up!  Once you have pulled up all your paper the room will be ready to move your furniture into!!

TTFN

Brooke