This post is sponsored by HomeRight. All opinions are my own.
As you all know, I’ve been in our new (old) house for a few weeks now, and I’ve been painting pretty much everything. So far, I’ve painted six rooms, the mailbox, the front porch swing, the stairs, and the front porch. The front porch wasn’t a project that was even on my radar, but I realized pretty quickly that it was going to have to be done sooner rather than later.
Here’s a quick video of the front porch. As you can see, there was quite a bit of chipped and peeling paint. Honestly, when a house is a hundred years old, you’re going to have to do quite a bit of painting. It’s constant.
I began the process by blowing off the porch using my electric blower and then washing it with TSP and my pressure washer (my pressure washer is from ALDI but this one looks similar). The pressure washer took off pretty much all of the loose paint and I lightly sanded the areas where the chipping was the worst. I then waited a day to let the wood dry before I got to work painting.
I used a latex paint designed for floors and steps. Pro tip: you can apply latex paint over oil-based paint but not vice versa. Since there’s almost certainly at least one coat of oil on this wood after all of these years, it was safest to use latex. My paint color is Sherwin-Williams Roycroft Pewter.
I used a paintbrush to paint the steps and cut in my edges, then loaded up my HomeRight PaintStick for the floor (learn more here | purchase here).
It took me 30 minutes to paint the entire porch with the PaintStick! A roller really is the best way to get paint into the grain of the wood, and the PaintStick combined with a high-quality paint meant that it only took a single coat to cover the porch floor.
There’s a reason why my PaintStick is kind of a mess in the above photo; I use it all the time. I find it so convenient to not have to use a roller tray–the PaintStick just draws paint directly from the can.
Pushing the handle feeds paint through the perforated roller so you can continue to paint large sections at a time.
The porch looked a million times better even before I finished painting.
It was HOT when I painted, so I waited about three days before I moved my porch furniture back on to the porch, and the pets and I used the side door in the meantime.
Now the fun part: let’s enjoy some “after” pictures!
You might remember that I painted my wicker furniture back in May using my HomeRight Super FinishMax; you can read about the process {here}.
I sit on the porch almost every evening with a glass of wine or iced tea and it’s the perfect place to keep an eye on the comings and goings in the neighborhood. The reality is that with a painted porch floor you have to repaint it every few years and I can guarantee I will always reach for the PaintStick for this kind of project.
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