It was love at first coat!

Oona here from Lohja, hi! I founded my own painting business for the first time
company in 2012. However, I started painting jobs already during vocational school in 1996.

I have done everything related to surface treatment and also construction, to be precise.

Nowadays I work as an entrepreneur at SävykäsRestore Oy, which
offers renovation, color, and interior design, furniture restoration and painting.

Frenchic Paint® joined the picture,
when I found the paint myself in autumn 2021. It was love at first coat!

The star patterns aligned last September 2022 and so the studio and
store to the office hotel premises of Kalkkipetteri, on Kievarintie
to Virkkala, Lohja. In the studio, I paint furniture
as customer jobs or self-designed and customized for sale.

Painting courses and advice

There are also good facilities here to hold Frenchic Paint® painting courses.
There have been really nice and skilled painters in the courses! Here
there would be some wall painting instructions for all eager
for painters.

Basic tips:

I always have the same advice for DIY painters:
Don't skip the preparation and invest in good tools!
I completely understand all the dislike for preparation work,
but they separate the wheat from the chaff! Everyone can paint,
but the groundwork shows on the finished surface, both in good and
in poor condition.

Start by wiping the dust
Preparation of the wall to be painted starts by wiping off the dust.
A long-handled microfiber mop is a good helper here. Dust and e.g. spider webs would otherwise unpleasantly swirl in the paint
mixed in and dry into a hard lump, at worst in the middle
ready wall.

Wash the surface to be painted clean
After dust removal, wash the wall if necessary and rinse
or wiped with clean water. Unexpected greasy spots include
for example, the bedroom's headboard wall, when it has been
stuff rubbed off from hair or an arm has been leaned on there
under the head against the wall. In the bathroom, hairspray causes trouble
along walls and floors.

Level and prime if necessary
Large holes and dents are primed before filling, so that
the filler has a good grip, and it does not peel off
from its base. Sanding dust is removed from sanded filler spots
carefully, otherwise bubbling may appear on the final surface,
when the paint is not properly adhered to its substrate. After that
sanded putty spots are primed so that in the final surface
no gloss differences or putty spots appear as uneven patches.

Then the good tools!

A quality roller or brush does not shed lint or hairs while painting.

The pile of a quality roller is also shaped so that it doesn’t leave thick streaks along the wall.
Wash new tools before the first painting session and
roll, shake, wipe, and squeeze dry. The tools must be
it’s good to be a little (I really mean a little) damp, so they
is easier to wash when they haven’t absorbed themselves full
paint. The paint coverage is also then what is stated on the side of the can
are promised.

Start painting from the edges by making the outlines

If you use tape, you can carefully paint the edges directly with a small
with a roller over the tape. If you don’t use tape and paint the edges
with a brush, then soften the edge a little with a roller, so it won’t
brush marks remain visible on the finished surface.
A good trick to get really sharp paint edges is to first paint
tape edge “sealed” with the base color, and when it has dried,
paint over with topcoat paint. Remember to remove the tape when the paint
is still wet!! In this case, use a higher quality
paper tape.

The result is immediately more professional, and you
make the neighbor Kalevi jealous of the stylishness of the painting job.

If painting continues the next day, you can store wet
tools in a well-sealed plastic bag in the meantime. When
when it’s time to wash, “blow off” for example with a wooden stick from the roller
extra paint back into the paint can and dry the brush
onto protective papers or newspaper, so that unnecessary
paint down the drain.

Painting tools are rolled, shaken, wiped, and
squeezed dry again and left to dry in a well-ventilated place,
preferably hanging with the bristles down and the roller fibers
fluffily. Then it’s nice to start using them next time
at once, when inspiration strikes!

Wishing you pleasant painting moments from your painter
Oona
SävykäsRestore
Ps. Go follow @savykasrestore on IG, and from there
may pick up more useful instructions along the way. At least pictures
design and painting work carried out for customers.