How to paint a room with dark colors

What is the best paint for dark or deep base colors? In this video we go over the basic process to paint a room and why we recommend Sherwin Williams Emerald in their matt finish for painting with a deep base or dark color.

I like this tray because it will hold a gallon of paint and you can use the empty bucket for your brush.

[AudreyElizabeth]

This is my house, and the paint he used is SW Naval in an emerald matte finish. But as you saw, he did a dark primer first.

[daidrahazley]

I love that color and the finish on that paint! Looks great

[APC]

That color looks great. We are considering this color for our library room

[pateicialane]

Love the colour and paint job ♥️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿England

[vaderladyl]

I use Behr with great results. Never had that issue with the hat band on top and I use a technique that prevents that as well. I had tried flat, eggshell and satin and great results.

[TheWESTSIDE]

1) Ceilings
2) Walls
3) Woodwork
in that order,
From a painter with 37 yrs exp

[adammac]

The text book way that we were taught in apprenticeship was ceiling first then walls and then woodwork last but I can understand why you do the frames first when using a darker colour. I think it’s easier to cut the wall into the frames when going vertical. Get a straighter line that’s just me anyways. However it’s easier to cut the skirting into the wall horizontal as well as the wall into the ceiling horizontal that’s just me like if I’m being picky but most the time when I’m doing multiple jobs I will do it In the order I said before

[latorriesmith]

What's the best way to fix bleeding caused by a poor tape job onto the lighter colored ceiling?

[colinhannon]

Do you not cut in with a brush before the roller work 🤔 or have i been missed informed all my life. Nice roller stick tho 👌 😍 😋 😏 👏

[ghengis]

Interesting that you can't cover with a sheen, any missing bits. My little bathroom has a few spots like that. 🙄
Lovely job, and thanks for the advice, I was afraid to start using dark colours because of the issues you've described. Your technique for using tape helped a lot too.

[iBoolGuy]

Hey sir, I recently painted my room black and I have a problem.
Previously it was half white oil/enamel and half white normal paint. The painter painted two layers of white primer, then above those, it took 3 layers of black paint on each wall to get all black. The black we used is non-enamel, called “golden supercryl”, written on it “water base paint based upon high quality polymers pigments and fillers” and ingredients are: “acrylic binder, pigment, fillers, water.

current problem: paint completely dried, but whenever I touch the walls lightly with my hands or if I press harder, it leaves a harsh white mark on it, it looks rubbish.. I think a proper description is, the black paint is ashy, if you touch it or rub, you can literally draw on it with your clean hand!

I bought higher quality black paint, also “supercryl”, it’s much much better and looks better, but it also has the same white mark problem, but to a much lesser degree, can you help?

[WES_]

Makes a room look/feel much smaller, especially in rooms which are already small.

[hypersaboor]

is this Oil Paint ? And Can We Do Oil Paint With Rollor

[ashley]

Great video! What size nap do you like for matte paint?

[puredruid]

Is it okay to paint over a black wall with another dark colour? Or will it need a white coat first?

[CLASION]

What primer do I use before o paint the wall black and another wall grey

[lahaza]

What is your method for doing the bottom of the wall?

[kraven]

I had to use Satin for a project and needed 4 coats to finally get it even, BUT it was still streaky as far as the sheen. How can I avoid that? When I back rolled it or 2nd backroll it was already taking off the color. Should I have added some paint thinner?

[natashas.o.]

Why didn’t he do that same technique with the tape closer to the ceiling? When you loop up the paint is all in waves 🧐

[johnemmanueltapel]

Can you tell me what is the color of the wall in the thumbnail