Painting woes

[Signedx]

So, I decided to change the color of my room to "Pumpkin Butter" from Behr since it's been this very light pinkish or beige looking color for years now.

Well, upon inspecting the paint I notice the previous paint job was horrible. Paint drips everywhere, 2 tone in some spots, lumps in others.

I bought a hand held sander from Lowe's then started sanding down the parts that appeared to be lumps and drips from the previous paint job so I could paint over it and they won't show through. Well, after painting the first coat I can still see where the previous paint job had drips/etc and doesn't sit well with me :verysad:

How can I cover over the previous paint job so the walls look decent and not just like someone painted them quickly without caring how it turned out?


*edit* For someone that doesn't go into the room often they may not notice the paint and it would appear to be decent to them, but I can see the mistakes in it and want to see if there is an easy way to fix it or would it just be better to leave it be and ignore it.

[billybongthorton]

well the paint drips you can probably scrape off with a putty knife but thats risks damaging the drywal if you do it to hard or like you said sand it down id use sanding pad instead of a hand held sander, and as for the lumps it could be from bad drywall work or from someone not sanding down the spackle if they used it to coverup previous damage there, your best bet is to replace the pieces of the drywall that have lumps on them but that would be a pain in the ass again its your perrogative on what you want to do, and the two tone for the paint means that they didnt distrubute the paint on the roller ie putting it thick on one spot and thin on the others, a couple gallons of interior primer would fix that and two coats of body paint, now remember the you got to distrbute your paint evenly, say you roll out the top half first then the bottom half when your done with a section roll it out from top to bottom to evenly distrubute the excess paint and prevent more drippage

[Duceanahalf]

what kind of roller nap are you using? natural, synthetic, 50/50? Length?

and when you roll the paint you need to back roll to even everything out

[Lil Ze']

Or just retexture, prime then paint. That will pretty much get rid of all your headaches.