Hey everyone! I’ve finished up yet another painting job for my house and today I’m sharing how I managed to paint our master bedroom in record time. They may not be officially called life hacks, but the tools that HomeRight has for painting have made my life so much easier. I used to dread painting with every fiber of my being. Now I think I may actually enjoy it! It’s a crazy thought, but it’s true. This month, I decided to tackle my master bedroom.
When we bought our house, we had the entire interior painted one color. It was A LOT of colors and we didn’t want to spend a lot of time picking accent walls, etc. We picked a neutral antique white color and my brother-in-law painted the walls and ceilings for us. We had always planned to add some accent walls later, but the task just seemed so daunting. I finally decided it was time to start painting and chose our bedroom as my first task. I love the look of greige and my friend Corey from Tiny Sidekick shared a great way for choosing the perfect greige paint. I chose some colors I thought I’d like and then bought my samples. I cannot stress enough how important it is to buy samples first. We’ve got $300 of paint sitting in our garage from when we first started painting the interior and I had only a color swatch as my reference. My brother-in-law started spraying the paint on the walls and my husband’s words were “that color makes me want to vomit.” Anyway, 7 samples later and I had picked my favorite! It turned out the be the color that Corey had also chosen for her home. For me, it was the color that seemed to compliment everything rather than having a weird contrast. I bought my paint during Labor Day weekend at Home Depot when they had an awesome sale on Gliddlen paint. I ended up buying a 5 gallon bucket to add this color throughout the rest of the house.
On top of painting our bedroom, I decided it was also time to replace our baseboards and put in the new baseboards we had bought when we were remodeling our house prior to moving in. After almost 4 years, it was time to bring them out of the shed. I’ll be sharing how to replace your baseboards without destroying your walls (or sanity) later. Don’t forget to stick around until the end of this post, because I’ve also got an amazing giveaway for you!
My newest tool in my painting arsenal is the PaintStick EZ-Twist Paint Roller. I was so excited to see how it would work and if it would help me paint faster. There was very little prep that needed to be done before I started. Just moving the furniture away from the walls and throwing down a few drop cloths.
The drop cloth was really just to make sure I didn’t drip anything from the paint bucket. The PaintStick comes with a lid that fits over the bucket and you draw the paint up into the handle.
I was really curious to see exactly how much I could paint before I had to refill the handle. I goes a long way! When you don’t have to stop painting every two minutes to reload your roller, you get an awesome arm workout. I was under a big time crunch when I painted my room that morning too. After getting my boys to school, I had a few things I had to take care of before I started painting (we were also prepping for a camping trip). I also had to be done by a certain time so that I could go back to the school and teach a core values lesson in my oldest son’s classroom. That gave me about 2 hours to paint. The good news is that with the PaintStick, that was plenty of time. We have a big master bedroom yet I was able to paint two coats of paint on all of the walls and still have plenty of time to change clothes, run to the store, and get to my son’s classroom.
When I got home from the school, it was time for my least favorite painting task of all time. Cutting in. Thanks to my new little friend, the HomeRight Quick Painter, I didn’t have to spend hours prepping/taping. I only had so much time for this task as well since my youngest had soccer practice that evening. I’m guessing by now you can see why I titled my post the way I did.
I loaded up the Quick Painter in a similar way as the PaintStick. It draws paint up into the handle. Then you just attach the paint pad to the end and you’re set!
The Quick Painter worked like a charm to help me cut in edges quickly and without a mess. One thing I did learn quickly though was that you cannot press the trigger hard to reload the paint pad. Just a tiny press to allow a little paint through. The trigger is spring loaded and if you push too hard, you’ll get a lot of paint coming out.
It cut in on the edges perfectly and I was so happy that I could save so much time on painting.
Oh, and another thing I learned. When you aren’t having to reload your painting tools every two minutes, you may also forget that there is still an open can of paint on your bedroom floor and step in it while you’re backing up, carrying your step stool. Prior to this “incident” I was holding off from saying it out loud but many times thinking in my head that this was the cleanest painting task I had ever taken on and couldn’t wait to tell my readers how I really didn’t even need to use a drop cloth. You can imagine how thankful I was to have that drop cloth protecting my carpet at this point. And don’t worry, my cute sandal washed right out and I was able to dry it and wear it to soccer practice that night!
I am in love with this new paint color and more in love with how fast I was able to paint the bedroom. It feels more like a sanctuary now and less blah. Another awesome thing about painting my bedroom was that it gave me a reason to get rid of our ugly old comforter and get a whole new comforter set that would compliment our new paint color. I scored this gorgeous set at Target on clearance for $50! The pillow was on clearance for only $7! I was a pretty happy girl. Now I’ve just got to finish decorating the rest of the room and I’ll be ready to share it all with you!
If you cringe at the thought of painting your walls, I promise you will not feel that way anymore after this! I’ve got to get started on the rest of my house and I am actually looking forward to it!
Are you ready for the giveaway? One lucky reader is going to be able to simplify their next painting task with a new HomeRight PaintStick EZ-Twist Paint Roller and a Quick Painter! Entries are open to residents of the United States ages 18 and over. Void in Alaska and Hawaii. Winner will be notified by email and given 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen. Good luck!
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This might actually help me finish painting my house lol. Love the color btw!
Thank you Cher! And it would definitely help make everything go so much easier;)
Great color choice! You really made this look easy, Katie. I’m going to have to try it.
Blessings,
Beth
Thank you Beth! This task did go so much easier. I can’t imagine painting with anything else now.
I’m in love!! Now I don’t have reason to say, “I don’t have time.”
I would paint my whole 70s paneled house!
I still have about 10 rooms in our house that need to be painted. Ugh. It’s torture. I’d love to win these tools!!
We still have about 10 rooms in our house that need to be painted. Ugh, It’s like torture. I’d love to win these tools!
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I’d paint our master bedroom and upstairs hallway. This might make the job a little easier with 3 small kids around.
Wow! That was fast! I would love to refresh the walls in every room – it’s been about 3 years since we moved in! It would be awesome to use these tools to get the job done faster!
It would make painting the basement easier.
So glad I found your blog!! I love DIY and time saving ideas!! 🙂 Thanks for the post!
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I have never tried any of these fancy trim gadgets…but this one looks easy and fast! Would love to win so I could try
Love the new color! Great giveaway!
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Luv the color, I would paint all the rooms in my house cause they are in need of being re-painted.
My ceilings need to be painted and upstairs! I’ve been waiting because it’s a big task to tackle.
I have a family room, 2 more bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and an office that must be painted before Christmas! I’d love to win the HomeRight PaintStick EZ-Twist Paint Roller and Quick Painter set. Thanks for the demonstration and the giveaway!
I would use these tools to repaint rooms in my home. All of the walls have taken a beating over the years and not that I’m older it’s getting harder to do all the edging on a ladder and bend over and over the tray. Quite an awesome invention. Thank you.
This is a great way to get your house painted room by room, while the kids are in school! Love this!
It is time to paint the whole house so those items would get a really good workout.
Wow! This would make painting an accent wall in my living room so much faster! Love it!
I would paint my living room, hall and kitchen
I have a kitchen, dining room and laundry room that I need to paint. Hoping the guys will have it textured by the weekend! Love the color!
My master bedroom has been partially painted for over a year. I think these tools would help me finish up the job. Thanks for the great info. Keep up the good work.
I just started painting my place, which is a room by room operation since in NYC apartments there’s no place to put anything while you paint. So those tools would be amazing. If I don’t win I sure would like to know where to get them! And the name of that paint color too!
Trudy, the color is called Mindful Grey. It’s a Sherwin Williams color, but they are able to look it up at Home Depot. You can find the HomeRight products either on their website http://www.homeright.com, or on Amazon. They’re amazing tools for painting and I will probably never paint any other way again!
Where was this post last year! I have lots of repainting because we don’t like some walls we have done.
As I write this we are painting our entire basement. The primer and the ceilings are done. Now we move onto the main and accent colors. I am the official cutter and I really don’t mind it, but since we will be doing 2 different colors and a chair rail, I’m a bit tired of cutting already!
I tried 5 different shades of gray on before settling….now wishing Greige was one of them! It looks great!
I have all of the pain to paint 2 rooms in my house but haven’t had the time to get it done yet. These look like awesome accessories that would help me get this done!!!! I really want to win.
this is amazing. i need to paint our master bedroom too. but first i should probably finish the 2 walls in our front room that never got done 2 years ago!
I’d paint my living room!
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I would paint everything…… My guest bathroom, guest bedroom, garage. Just everything! I love how painting a room can just change everything!
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Wow, what a great new tool! Good to know. It might actually take some of the anxiety out of the task!
The first thing I would paint is the spare bedroom, for 2 years now half of it is still sheet rock, so this would help me to finish it up, all by myself
As much as I hate painting this would definitely help with that! I like the color that you did too! 🙂
I would paint our new nursery that we are getting started with. Expecting a new one sometime early next year! 🙂
must try this
Looks like this could really cut down on the painting time. How well does it paint high textured walls?
That’s a tough one. It depends on what you would call highly textured. My walls are textured and it worked just fine on them. They do offer different roller naps for a rougher texture though.
Def. my bathroom
My living room needs a paint job
I would paint every room of our house. We are closing on our new place in 10 days and I can’t wait to get rid of the boring beige that is in every room.
I’ve been in the tedious process of removing wallpaper and painting walls. The living room and bathroom are done, still have 2 hallways and the kitchen left to strip the paper and repaint
I desperately need to paint my bathroom. And I’m dreading it!!