Painting the walls with your own hands - enough processcomplex and time-consuming, but it does not require special skills and the use of special tools. The complexity is that even a small room has a fairly large area of walls and surfaces for painting, when carrying out such work it is necessary to be careful, especially if it is multicolored or decorative painting. 
For high-quality painting of walls, you need to apply at least two layers of paint. includes stages:
- preparation of tools and substances (rollers, primers, putties, paints);
- preparation of surfaces (priming, puttying, leveling);
- coloring.
Tools and Paint Selection
List of tools and compounds: 
Rollers for painting walls.
Water-based compounds have no toxicsubstances and odor. They are environmentally friendly and fireproof, there are no solvents in their composition. The thicker (within reasonable limits) the mixture, the better - it will not drain to the floor. To paint the walls with their own hands choose this particular paint, it is able to breathe, safe, easily washed with water. There are with latex, silicone, acrylic components. The latter is the most durable, easy to clean, does not wear off, does not burn out. Latex gives the surface a thin protective film, has the same properties as the previous one. Acrylic-latex is used for such premises as toilets, bathrooms, kitchens. Silicone - for very wet rooms. 
Types of paints for walls. Very unusual and interesting technology for painting walls with decorative compounds. They can be with textural components or with a homogeneous viscous acrylic texture. With their help imitate almost any surface, for example, a stone. Use them is not more difficult than the usual compounds. They can be used even on surfaces with imperfections, irregularities. There is a separate type - textured paint. Coarse-grained, fine-grained, it has the same advantages as described above. They open unlimited possibilities and technologies for design, experiments with color, painting with their own hands. Back to contents</a>
Surface preparation
At this stage include:
- cleaning;
- first coat first time;
- plaster-leveling;
- a second primer;
- putty;
- a third primer;
- grinding.
The scheme for calculating the required amount of paint forpainting of walls. Some items can be skipped, sometimes enough cleaning, priming, puttying and grinding. Such work always begins with surface preparation. Removes dust, debris, scraping old coating, painting, wallpaper, etc. To remove the wallpaper there are special fluids. If the old coating is so strongly embedded that it can not be scraped off, use an alkyd primer, diluted one-third with white spirit. The inspection is done for cracks, potholes. They are expanded, closed with a solution and treated with a primer. Fungus, grease spots are treated with acidic composition or alkali. Old cracks should first be expanded by removing the material that is crushed, and then primed and puttyed. For rusty spots there is a special acrylic primer, the usual can not cope, the spots will show through the paint. Directly on such a primer put plaster. The old lime is removed, it is washed with water for several turns. After cleaning the walls and leveling them, a primer is produced. It penetrates into the material and strengthens it, some formulations have a bactericidal and antifungal effect. The wall can be primed 2 or 3 times for greater effect. The first is applied after cleaning, the second after the leveling plaster, the third after grinding the putty before painting. It reveals some defects, scratches, etc. they can be removed and then you can perform a control painting. Add a little color, as close to the original color, the composition should go out as low as possible. After such coloring, all the remaining defects will be visible, they are removed and shpaklyuyut. The surface is plastered with plaster and plasterboard. 
Scheme of painting the walls. There is a special lighthouse plaster. It can be plaster and cement. The first for rooms with a normal level of moisture, it is better to lay down a thick layer, dries quickly, does not crack. Cement - for rooms with high humidity, for example, bathrooms. If there is an ordinary homemade plaster with a cement-sand composition, then the puttying and coloring can be done only in a month, as it, drying out, shrinks, the paint is cracked. Under the painting, they were no longer used, as more advanced compounds appeared. But all the same cracks can appear, it will exclude the reinforced mesh-cobweb, put a putty and paint on top of it (although it can not be used). After this, the walls are again cleaned, ground and begin to be painted. Back to contents</a>
Self-painting
Scheme of artistic painting of the wall. Calculate the amount of paint is very simple: multiply the height of the plane by the width, you will get the result in square meters, then you should carefully study the bank or the instruction attached to the composition, there is indicated the quantity per 1 sq.m. Consider that painting takes place at least two layers, add 20% just in case. Make sure that the surface has dried well before painting. Paint is diluted, if necessary, following the instructions, and cast some quantity into the paint tank or cuvette for the roller. It is rolled out and begins to be painted. The technology is simple: paint is applied from top to bottom with even layers. Before the ceiling and the floor leave gaps of about 10 cm. They are then dyed with brushes. The next bar should go to the previous one no more than 10 cm, the smaller, the better. Before applying the next layer, it is necessary to wait until the previous one has dried completely and well. The recommended temperature regime is not higher than 20 and not lower than 5 ° С, the humidity in the room should be about 80%. If the temperature is high, the paint will dry quickly, this will make it impossible to apply it evenly. An effect can be formed, called rolling, when the next layer falls on dried, it will become noticeable when it dries completely. At low humidity, the paint will also dry quickly, which is undesirable. Increase the humidity can be by placing a bucket of water in a room where there should be no dust and drafts. Technologies for decorative compositions may differ. Back to contents</a>
Recommendations for painting the walls with your own hands
Scheme of painting walls in stripes.
Do the required amount of color at once, withdrying, water-based compositions change their color, only a computer can pick up an identical one. Finally, some universal properties of painting should be noted, with the help you can make all kinds of surfaces: rhombuses, embossed, with patterns. For this, the first layer is made smooth, allowed to dry. Then the composition is applied with special rollers. There are many different types of rollers for this: with a deep embossed surface, such that apply patterns, stencil. </ ul>
