When we painted throughout, I left the tricky jobs to the wife, she's got a whole lot more patience than me......
But, seriously, you can do it yourself for much, much, less.
We took our time, prepared properly whicht is the only way, and just relaxed and did it.
It was hard up and down the work platform, and the ladder, but well worth it for the savings.
We bought 4l tins which are more expensive than the bigger 10l ones, but easier to manage.
There's a great ceiling paint, goes on pink, drys white.
If we were to do it again, which I'm sure we will, I'd be using that paint.
Bought good quality brushes and rollers, and looked after them. Drop shelter everything, and taped up the delicate bits.
You can cut in around the cornices, with angle brush and iroller the rest.
As for the skirtings, dont remove them, you can tape up and prepare better and brush them.
Remember, a good point I finally learned after quite some time.
'Don't look too closely. You'll drive yourself mad, just step back and look at the whole job. I used to get hung uo in doing the minute areas like door frames, and wanted them perfect.
Everybody that cane round I asked if they could see the mistake, all said it was great and never noticed it.
I did, because I was inches away and looking at it.
Another trick we did was go and look at new houses and show homes. Then we went back hone and realised we weren't doing such a bad job after all.
Intact, in many we looked at, we realised we took more care and attention. Probably because we were doing it ourselves, for ourselves.
Prep is the key, do.t start painting till its all done and done properly.
Save yourselves a bundle by doing it yourself.
