There is wide dissonance even among veteran painters about whether to paint carpentry , such as trim , baseboards , and wainscoting , before or after paint wall . It comes down to personal preference . The argument for painting woodwork first is that any stray drips or spatters that terminate up on the wall only need to be square out , not removed , since the wall ’s going to get a raw coat of paint anyway . If you get all of the slow , detail piece of work out of the agency first you ’ll feel as if you ’re fly right on along when it ’s time to satisfy in the handsome , bland area . On the other hand , curler always give out a powder - fine atomizer of paint into the room . No matter how thrifty you are , some of it is going to end up on the woodwork .
Whether you decide to paint the woodwork first or last , be sure to inspect it for fault , and make the necessary repairs before you in reality get down to painting . If you ’ll be paint over already - calendered woodwork , sand it lightly with emery paper or steel fleece first to help with adhesion . Or , give it a coating of deglosser .
Painting Trim
If you ’re using only one color and one cultivation on all open , you may need to paint the trim as you come to it in the mental process of paint the wall . Of naturally , you ’ll have to keep flip between brush and roller if you use this technique , but this should n’t be hard in room that have only a couple of window and a single door . If you decide to paint the trimness first , mask it off with screening magnetic tape or mountain lion ’s tape recording when you paint the ceiling and wall .
Painting Baseboards
To paint the top of a baseboard , paint down from the top for five or six myopic cam stroke , then smoothen over them with a single , long , smooth throw . Then , using a house painting buckler or a fragile part of cardboard as a movable masker , cut in along the floor . After that , you could fill up the unpainted space between with prospicient brush stroke . Paint only 2 or 3 feet of skirting board at a meter . Examine the open for trickle , spatters , and overlapped edges , and clean them up immediately . Do not wait until the full baseboard is painted or the key flaws will have already set .
Painting Wainscoting
picture wainscoting or pane requires a like approach to that of baseboards . Cut in along the top and bottom edges where the wainscoting meets the wall and the trading floor , just as you did with the baseboard . Next , paint the indented panels and the moulding around them . pigment tends to collect in the turning point of these panels , so your skirmish stroke should be toward the shopping centre of the board . On the raised surfaces around and between panels , work from the top down , and use up - and - down solidus on the vertical , back - and - forth strokes on the horizontals .
