APPLYING COLOR INTERIOR DECORATING

2. Fill your tray with your chosen color interior decorating. Pour as much as you can while keeping liquid from covering the roller grid marks. The grid is used to remove excess paint from the sleeve (cover). If the bottom grids are covered in liquid you'll be adding product to the roller not taking it away.

3. Place the tray in a spot that'll let you start your color interior decorating in a corner of a room. Or a right angled transition, from living room to hallway for example. If you have a surface like an arch way that's painted different tones on each side use tape for protection.

4. Rollers should have a pole attached which can extend when applying your color interior decorating. Mine goes from one foot six inches to two feet six inches. Using a cage/pole combination gives you speed and better control than just the roller alone. Also, smaller extensions let you roll cramped areas like the lower part of a stairwell with ease.

5. Be sure the sleeve is lint free prior to placing it on your cage. If not you'll need to wash and spin (shake) it dry or wrap it in masking tape to remove excess fibers. I use a fairly thick cover (15 mil or 5/8” th) for most of my projects. You may prefer a less nappy cover (10 mill or 3/8''th). The thicker it is the fewer stipple marks you'll see in the finish. A less dense cover on the other hand needs more paint loading (tray dips).

6. With the tray and roller cover horizontal to each other start at the top of the grid and slowly roll towards the paint. Don't press down to hard. Stop just as the roller touches liquid. The object is to get the fibers wet but not the side of the cage. This isn't possible of course but try and keep your roller dry while at the same time drenching the sleeve fibers in liquid. Begin from the top of your tray and once again roll down just contacting with the paint in the trays reservoir. Keep doing this until the cover and the trays grid are good and wet (between four to eight rolls).

7. Less sleeve to tray rolling are needed once the cover is wet. Three and four strokes across the grid between unloading onto the wall and loading up again seems to work best.

8. Beginning in a corner with the widest part of your wet roller touching the top section of the wall. Trying not to hit the ceiling roll out a W. Your letter should be two feet wide at the top and four feet high. In most cases walls are eight feet from floor to stipple so your W should stop half way down the wall. You'll need to make more applications for higher surfaces. Top middle and bottom for example.

9. With your two foot by four foot W rolled out the unloaded sleeve should be stopped at the highest point where the letter ends. Upper right side if your right handed. Start rolling in a strait line down to the floor. Stop in the middle if the walls are eight feet high. In a strait line heading towards the ceiling over lap your last stroke by an inch or so. Keep rolling up and down into the corner towards your brush line. Your trying to coat a layer of color interior decorating over the W so the previous paint tone doesn’t show through. The W acts as a reservoir. As you roll across dry wall you will cross the path of the W picking up product and distributing it onto non coated areas.

10. You'll now have a wall that's covered with a two foot wide by four foot long section of paint. The original coating shouldn't be showing through your applied product.

11. Do the bottom in the same fashion as your upper walls. Slightly over lap the top painted area with the lower. When rolling be sure to keep the length of the sleeve touching the wall at all times. Pressure should distributed evenly across the roller and wall.

12. The area should now have a two foot by eight foot high layer of solid covered paint color interior decorating applied to it.

13. Using light even pressure starting from where you left off at the ceiling, roll top to bottom. Use a strait line and a unloaded roller cover. Bring the sleeve back up to the top, slightly overlap your last roll and once again going from ceiling to floor. With the somewhat dry roller keep doing this until you reach your cut in corner line.

14. You want to be rolling into and across marks that might be left behind by the edge of the sleeve. Work quickly or your paint color interior decorating will set up making the liquid tacky and uneven. Imagine the roller is a rake with no teeth and your trying to level sand in a box with level, even, parallel lines. Paint the next section and dry roll back into the first. Keep doing this all the way around the room. Try to always roll from a dry surface to a wet one.