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Hi all, this is an update to this post:

Streaks on walls

Thank you all so much for the encouragement and advice. I was on the edge of giving up after my first coat but I took your tips on board for the second coat and I'm so glad I pushed through!! The room on balance looks amazing and I've learned so much from the experience. The first photo on this post is the room and as you can see it looks SO MUCH better now. Is it professional? No. Is it good and all done by my own hand? Yes!!

I used u/saluteyoursports advice on rollers, talked to the paint company and said "use whatever material" but did say to use a 1/4 nap instead of 3/8, which I did. I think it went much better.

I used u/CaptainTeddyRuxbin advice on pressing VERY lightly and it worked amazingly.

After u/HomicidalHushPuppy advice on roller technique I watched about fifteen videos on how to do it and finally got the back-forth of how to do that into my head and executed it with 80% success. It's definitely way better than what I was doing.

And if I can put one more question in front of the sub? While doing the left/right, right/left, left/right method the sun came up and hit my eyes for a couple hours right in the middle. The result is that I missed a small patch on each wall, mostly about 3-6 inches where I thought I had coverage because I couldn't see I had missed it. I attached a couple photos of those results. I'm deciding between painting that strip, leaving it alone and living with it, or having to re-paint the whole wall (probably not this last one tbh). What do y'all think? Is rolling that gap strip likely to succeed or yield a better result than leaving it? If I was to roll it is there a best practice?

I'm also now debating between greening the windows (the original plan) or maybe changing it up and painting them a dark bronze color or something. The ceiling will be PVC copies of aluminum tiles (WHOLE NEW GIANT PROJECT, YAY) in dark copper so maybe something similar to that? Just throwing it out there in case anyone wants to offer their color feedback too.

Thanks fellow redditors, I really appreciate how fantastic this sub community is!

Hi all, thank you for existing as a "no stupid questions" forum! I am painting a room for the first time and after tons of youtubes ("yOu DOn'T nEEd tApE" was not correct for 1st timer) I did a coat of tinted primer then a coat of the actual paint. The result is definitely streaky and I'm wondering if I've messed it up or just need to stick with it. After 6 hours of cut ins and rolling on my knees and up a ladder (14' ceilings on one side) I am torn between sticking with it no matter what and despair that I might have messed it up, so your advice and comments would be appreciated.

Paint is Little Greene 'Puck' in flat, using a microfiber purdy roller on an extension pole with same brand cut-in brush. Sanded before primer, and after primer. Primer was from Little Green also and was tinted Puck. Post-primer the result was definitely streaky. I didn't know this forum existed yet so I asked AI and it said "streaks are fine but you don't want them" so I soldiered on.

So I'm painting a room for the first time (my first time doing this) and everything has been taped, prepped, and gotten as ready as I can make it. I've even put down a layer of primer on 80% of the room. Lots of learning and google that's gotten me where I need to go....EXCEPT with these 60 year old casement windows. As you can see in the photos there are screw holes right in the middle of the painting surface. It looks like the contractors just painted over the whole assembly (and broke off all the tabs holding the screens in) so I've got new ones ready to roll. But how do I paint this without covering the screw hole in paint, which I imagine leaves a sub-optimal result? And is it better to remove the handle and rotator before painting? The contractor just painted directly over the existing 50 year old ones before I moved in so it might even be better to replace them?

I would GREATLY appreciate anyone's expertise who can help with this. I am kind of swamped under with the process and how much learning I've had to do so far. I have tried Google and AI and everything else but I haven't been able to find a good answer yet.