What a mess! Image via Wikipedia
You must first walk before you can run!
What does walking and running have to do with learning to paint? Put it another way…you must learn to Paint Rooms Like a Professional before you can learn to do great faux painting.
Why? Because all great faux painted walls started with great base coats. Beware…a poor base painted wall, will never look beautiful…even with a fantastic faux treatment.
Have you ever spent hours taping up all the trim around windows/doors/floors and ceilings only to find out that the paint seeped under the tape and is now dry?  Wouldn’t you love to learn how to paint trim like a professional? Without tape?  Quick – Clean – Easy?
Have you tried to paint with a brush and found the paint lands more on the floor and on you than on the wall? You are probably not loading you brush correctly. Would you like to learn how to load a brush the way the professionals do?
Does it take you forever to paint a room with a roller? You know professional painters learn a system of painting with a roller…”time is money”. Painting with a roller can be hard work. You need to know all the professional tricks for painting with a roller. How to load, how to roll with your back and how to keep it off the furniture…(those darned rollers can really get away from you).
How about all those brushes and rollers that are ruined because you didn’t get all the paint out? We’ve seen this happen before. Money instead of paint down the drain. Learn how to clean up after yourself and save your tools from a pro.
TIP: I throw all my brushes and rollers into a bucket of water with a few cap-fulls of fabric softener. Â The paint seems to just clean itself right out of those tools.
TIP: Have some dried paint? I used to use that stinky stuff – “Goof Off”.  Now I use the odorless Simple Green. It takes a bit longer, but it works great…and it doesn’t smell up the house.
I found this GREAT website with a ton of videos you can watch right now!  Videos on loading brushes, cutting in around the ceiling, painting around trim…all of it. GREAT videos! Videos that are going to make your life sooooo much easier!! 
Painting Rooms Like a Professional from a Pro!
Purdy – Professional Painting Tools
Hope this helps and makes your painting jobs much much easier!
P.S. I found a book, too, that has some great tips in it as well. In case you like to have a book on hand to refer back to instead of going to the videos every time!Â
Painting and Finishing (Build Like A Pro)
