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I also put this thread off as I thought it was about painting pictures.
So now that I have the subject right...I like to paint walls, and even furniture, but NOT when there is carpet on the floor. I've been S-L-O-W-L-Y painting our house, including trim and doors. Trying to do trim against carpet is most painfully. My hands cramp, my knees get stiff and my eyes start to cross. I still have one large room to do and by the time I finish, it will be time to recarpet. Good thing you say?
I'm pretty sure that the carpet piles will not match and the two layers of primer and three layers of enamel will have created a truely awful line. I forsee removing the old baseboards and replacing them with new baseboards(that I will also have to paint.):
Tips?
Not sure I have any. I have used latex, acrylic, and oil paint; flat, eggshell, satin, semi-gloss and enamel. I've tried rollers, pads, and brushes. I've used painter's tape, paint guards and drop cloths of plastic, paper, and old sheets.
What I have settled on is PREP: wash everything, sand everything, patch everything, prime everything. (Well not everything, but don't rush or slough this off.)
Personal taste is: roll only with a paint stick (incredibly quick, no dripping...if tuned up...and easy to cleanup.) I use a paper drop cloth when rolling. Everything else I do with two rather expensive angle cut brushes, 1 1/2 inch and 2 1/2 inch. I don't use tape, or paint guards...just a few sections of newspapers and a slow, steady hand. But I am SLOW. It takes me about 2-3 hours to cut in the walls for the ceiling, coners and trim with the 2 1/2" brush in a 10' X 11' room.
Now to the fun part. Most of our rooms are a version of camel and white. But in the bedrooms, I done one a french blue, and the other a soft green. I like them all.
Oh, and another unsual thing I did that is really nice. Our family room was a sort of "colonial" thing when we bought it, false beams and all. So I painted the walls a sort of soft white (plaster-look) and the corase trim, sections of 40" high panel board, the "beams" and the CEILING a taupy camel. Made the room much more interesting a more colonial look.
AND one more, in the front hall with staircase, painted the walls and the ceiling the same camel, added a thin crown moulding, and painted the moulding, trim and doors white. (The staircase was not a good design, so I painted it the wall color to sort of blend it away. Very effective and much more elegant.)
Wordy, wordy, wordy. I'll shut-up now. (Good Luck)