How To Paint A Room • Nifty 101

00:54 - Picking a color
02:33 - Picking a sheen
04:51 - Materials & supplies
06:42 - Prepping your space
08:16 - Painting your walls
12:42 - Cleanup & care

MUSIC
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STILLS
Blank dark black grainy wall background
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Silver foil texture background
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VIDEO
Luxury golden sofa on a loft background
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The roller is painted yellow on the floor.
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White color clock time lapse loopable
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Exhausted woman.
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Modern interior living room
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Creative business people choosing the colors for the new advertising design
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Pouring paint
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Shopping wall color in the hardware store
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Dark home theater
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Colorful paint roller
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Can of paint falling onto the floor (slow motion)
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Beach cottage interior, dolly movement
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MS POV Shopping cart moving through aisles of retail store / Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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MS PAN Water pouring into bathtub in bathroom, Scarborough, New York, USA
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MS TS Through modern loft decorated in white/ Berlin, Germany
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[GabrielKnightz]

I hope you guys take the time to make this a series, a comprehensive, cataloged, beginners video on how to do household things in layman's terms, alongside the quickies.
A great addition to the channel. Thank you.

[suzip]

Literally just painted my entire apartment following these instructions. I had no idea it would be this straight forward. Especially the tip with the spackle. I can’t believe how easy this is to do

[sahasrahla]

I'm a house painter and I think this video's pretty spot-on. I always use dish soap for my brushes and those hook thinks are one of the most useful tools you can have.
Please make more of these.

[johnjewlol]

2:56 "Flat is what you will find in a low kind of crappy apartment"
*Stares at FLAT painted room walls*

[wrathika]

Mostly good advice, but NEVER store your wet paintbrush upright to dry! The water sinks to the bottom and either warps the brush or messes up the adhesive and you lose chunks of bristles. Lay flat or even better reshape and hang from the handle to dry

[toiletduck]

Thank you, this helped a lot! As an alternative to wearing old clothes, I would also recommend covering yourself with something disposable. Today me and my grandmother Painted her kitchen and we wore disposable gloves and a plastic swimming cap on our heads. Instead of changing our clothes, we each got a massive trash bag a d put our head and arms through and wore it as a smock which covered our whole bodies. True, it does look a bit awkward, especially with the plastic cap, but it really helps keep our clothes clean. I also recommend taking time to relax in between and to do other things so it doesn't feel like it drags on. Halfway through Painting today, my grandmother made dinner, and I took off my shoes, gloves and smock (but for some reason left the cap on my head 😂), and I sat on the sofa, got comfortable, turned the TV, and, as it was a cold day, I got under a blanket to cover my whole body to warm up, and I sat for about a half hour relaxing with a hot mug of tea which my grandmother made me, before putting on another smock and pair of gloves and getting back to work.

[morgankampe]

Fun tip: Before using the part of the roller that absorbs paint, put tape over it to get all the fuzzies off so that later it doesn't stick to the wall and ruin your finish.

[bridgetkelly]

MATERIALS:
- primer (maybe)
- painter's tape
- 3.5 inch angled painter's brush
- roller with naft cover (use 3/8 inch or 1/2 inch)
- extendable roller
- drop cloth
- paint tray
- spackle
- primer
- putty knife

[emilynguyen]

Why am I watching this, I'm not even painting a room?

[nemosthebandit]

I’ve painted so many walls in my life and it’s always good to get a quick refresher course before tackling a new project just to get the cobwebs out. Thank you, great video.

[MicahsMommi]

Dont leave your brush with the bristles up, this causes the water to pool in the base, which will take forever to dry and eats away at the adhesive. You will then be left with a paintbrush that continually looses hairs...

[tarabierwagen]

Advice: do not patch the holes that way. You can clearly see that the patch shrunk down and the hole is still noticeable. Filling takes about 2-3 coats depending on the size, with sanding in between to make it flush with the walls.

[christiantenjo]

I have a test tomorrow and don’t even own a can of paint why am I here

[timothyalan]

Yesterday was my first day at Home Depot in the paint department, and I have no idea what I'm doing 😂 this was a valuable video. The sheen was the most confusing part for me to understand, but you summed everything up very well.

[heatherstock]

I appreciate how detailed this video is. Thank you for allowing the extra time to do it right!

[dianar]

Great video for home use! A few things were off, as some have mentioned but overall, thats my go-to way of painting. One tip: If your like me and not single, you may get interrupted by kids, hubs, errands, chores. In your paint tray and handheld paint bucket, you can use the liners she mentioned, they sell both at the store. But you can also use plastic bags for both! For the paint tray I use about 6gal trash bags with open edge towards the deeper end then tape closed. For the hand bucket I use bread loaf bags ( can be found in food storage bag area of some stores) or other similar small bags. Then when you are interrupted, simply cover the tray with another bag and tape or tie closed, and tie closed the bag in hand bucket with itself or a rubber band, making sure no holes are open. When you are ready to paint the next time, your paint is readily available with no crusty, dry crumbs that can ruin a paint job.

[tess]

Uhhh. I work for a paint store where we deal with a lot of professional contractors and they do use tape. A lot of it.

Never let your brushes dry upright!

Id recommend a Purdy XL 2.5 brush. It’s universal as hell. If you take care of it properly with cleaning, it’ll last for several projects.

[livingglutenfree]

Never painted a room in my life..i recently bought a home and I wanted to paint myself although my aister done most of thr painting😄 I wanted to paint the 2 rooms i had left..i followed this video and bought supplies and painted and cant tell you how proud I am of myself..this video was very helpful 😎

[Gk]

I painted my room in grey flat paint and it looks amazing, has a calm vibe and no light shines off the wall

[kevincunningham]

Always cut before you roll people, it blends better.