Count the cans before you open one.

Pick the home that looks most like yours, then change anything that's different. You'll see how much paint to buy, the tools you need, and what a painter where you live would likely charge.

Start from a home like yours

Where you live

Country Province or state

Sets local painter wages and sales tax.

Size and layout

Floor area Only the floors you're painting. Basements count if they're finished.

Rooms

Count bathrooms, hallways and the stairwell. More rooms means more walls and corners.

Ceiling height

What you're painting

Walls are always included.

Ceilings Baseboards and trim Doors

Doors

Windows

Walls and finish

Coats

Two coats is standard. Use three for a big colour change.

Wall condition

Primer

Prime everything on new drywall or when going from dark to light.

gallons of paint

of work for one person

paint at typical store prices, with tax

Buy paint at a local paint store so it's tinted to your colour. Everything else is below.

Tools and supplies

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