Prep and patience key to painting a house, inside or out

Photo by Nicole Villalpando

Doing the perfect home painting job yourself means taking good care with the prep work to get a good finished product. Make sure the rollers you choose are the correct nap for your walls. This 1/2-inch nap is for textured walls. (Nicole Villalpando/Austin American-Statesman/MCT)

Photo by Nicole Villalpando

MCT Doing the perfect home painting job yourself means taking good care with the prep work to get a good finished product. Being meticulous in applying tape gives clean lines and keeps paint from where it is not wanted.

Photo by Nicole Villalpando

Doing the perfect home painting job yourself means taking good care with the prep work to get a good finished product. Using a 5-gallong bucket allows you to mix your cans of paint to get an even tone. (Nicole Villalpando/Austin American-Statesman/MCT)

Painting is one of the easiest ways to transform the look of your home, and yet, were just not good at it. We think we can do a room in a day, the whole house in a weekend.

People think painting is a very easy thing, said Michael Parreno of 78 Painting, Textures, Plasters and More, in Austin. Its all about the prep and many years of experience. Patience is everything in painting.

That prep work is going to be about 75 percent of the job, said Louie Funk of Funk Paint Contractors. If people take time to tape off the room, they can do almost as good a job as we can. Theyve got to be serious about taping it off.

Painting also is about knowing what jobs you can do and what jobs are best for the professionals. And, most importantly, its about having the right kind of tools and paint for the job.

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Prep and patience key to painting a house, inside or out