How do i paint a dark colour without showing all roller strokes and imperfections?

ive bought a paint by Craig %26amp; Rose, Opulence sumptuous satin, deepest damson, its like a mulberry colour. i thought id just try a section of my wall and it looks horrible. you can see all the roller marks and all the imperfections on the wall. 7 hours later ive tried a second coat but everything can still be seen. ive just read about priming it???? but if i prime over half a cream wall and part mulberry are my results going to be the same coverage?





please help anyone!!!





thanksHow do i paint a dark colour without showing all roller strokes and imperfections?
its going to take four coats for you to see something you can live with maybe fiveHow do i paint a dark colour without showing all roller strokes and imperfections?
As others have said, prime first. Tint the primer with half the tint used for the top coat. It it's tint is lighter, you can see where you've painted, so far.





Also, add a radiant barrier product, available at Kelly Moore, called Radiosity 3000. It acts as a color enhancer, requiring less coats and keeps the finish more even. This product is not specifically made for this, but it works well for this application. I've painted red, the hardest color to paint, in two coats, where I expected to put on 4 coats.





Also, to eliminate ALL roller strokes, use an airless sprayer. Cheap to rent, locally. Try Home Depot or Lowes, if you don't have a tool rental place nearby.





Their website (though they don't mention the enhance property);


www.Radiosity3000.com
You should definitely prime the walls. After priming, it is possible that you may need to paint a few coats of your color to get even coverage. A good way to prevent roller marks is to push your paint roller in a a large ';V'; or ';W'; shape on the wall. The V (or W) motion will smooth out your roller/brush marks.
Some great advice already given; I wanted to add that you can get tinted primer. A tinted primer can also reduce the number of coats you'll need.





We painted our dining room with a good quality paint that was a deep cranberry. We primed the wall first. It took FOUR coats, but the wall is perfect. No roller marks or brush strokes are visible. We love it!
I just painted a wall mid-mocha. I had to put on two coats of primer and two coats of paint. Zinzers is the primer I used and they also tinted it for me. It turned out nice but BORING!!
priming will help for sure, just do the whole wall. fill any depressions or imperfections or holes.


sand it, clean it, then prime it.





use a good quality paint roller and a good quality cage frame. the wire thing the roller goes on should not be bendy and flexable. that will cause more paint at the edges than in the middle.





keep the room a nice temperature, about 20 deg celcius ( i think thats 70 f ?) and do not paint in direct sunlight. if the top layer dries too fast, the paint will not ';lay down'; same thing if you over brush or over roll it. put a nice coat on, then walk away until it is dry.





since you have a dark colour, that means there is a lot of ';tint'; in the can. that means you want to give it more drying time between coats. check the can for the instructions, but i leave mine at least overnight. tint never actually dries, it just becomes encapsulated in the paint itself. pure tint will rub off for weeks.





one last point. the shinier the paint, the more it shows imperfections. you can probably get the same colour in a flatter ';sheen';. flat paint is a bad drywallers best friend lol

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