Painting My Hallway!
This post is sponsored by HomeRight, but all opinions are completely mine.
Outside of my bedroom is this staircase leading up the the girls’ attic bedroom. It hasn’t been painted for years and you know how stairway/hallway walls can get. Yucko!
You can’t tell from the picture, but the walls were begging to be painted. When I passed it every day on my way to bed I could hear their little desperate cries of despair.
But it’s hard to do because it’s very high and the steps are shallow and there is no place to put a paint roller tray. Then I had a lightbulb moment! I’d use my PaintStick EZ Twist from HomeRight! You don’t need a roller tray and even my teens can use it. SCORE!
A tool that my kids can use makes this mamma happy!
We covered the steps with newspaper and got started. It was super simple. Just push the stick onto the tube that you put on the paint can.
Pull the stick back……
And we all watched as the paint goes right up into the tube.
And more……
Until it’s all full!
We all stared in amazement. Yes, we are easily entertained.
Then you just twist the handle and the paint comes out through the roller….all smooth and easy.
I was going to let the kids do the painting, but I wanted to try it first. And I just couldn’t stop!
But I finally let the kids take over. I wasn’t going to keep all the fun to myself. I’m just that kind of mom.
We also painted the back wall with chalkboard paint. It will serve as a message board for the girls up there in that attic room (it’s such a small wall that we just painted it with a brush). Did you know that you should always season a chalkboard wall? You just rub the side of a stick of chalk over the whole thing then erase it. That will keep your chalk art from being hard to erase later.
Then we just cleaned the PaintStick EZ-Twist and we were done. Cleaning the PaintStick was easy except for the time it took to get the roller cover clean. It wasn’t hard, but took time….like any roller cover. I just don’t like cleaning them because I’m lazy. But even with the cleaning the whole job still took much less time than it would have with a regular roller because there was no pan to clean and we didn’t have to get up and down to reach the paint. It was just twist-swoop-finished.
The girls have plans to change the chalk wall art for the seasons. I heard them talking about drawing a Christmas tree on it. Cute!
From start to finish the whole job took about 2 hours and there was absolutely no mess. That was another blessing of the PaintStick.
And now my stairwell walls sing happy songs about rainbows and puppies.
And…..drumroll please……I’m giving away a PaintStick EZ-Twist to one of you! Just enter here…..you’ll love it!
Wow, I could use that at this stage of my life! Up and down the ladder the other day, painting the girls bathroom, made my knees hurt!
Great giveaway!
We have actually been discussing painting our stairway, so this would be perfect!
that is a fabulous contraption!
Looks great! I like the chalk paint, too. How did you avoid having to “cut in” the paint with a brush at the top of the walls and corners? I’m dying to paint my stairway, and an extended roller would work, but how do I get into all those little corners that I can’t reach?
This tool is amazing. Just what I need to paint the hallway near our staircase.
Oh my goodness!!! I could SO use one of these, as I have some major painting in my very near future. What an awesome product!! 🙂
What room? My hallways and family room. (I should’ve read that before I commented!)
Great idea! I wonder how far up it goes.
I have so many ceilings to paint, this would be a Godsend!
My basement bathroom! I’ve been wanting to freshen it up. And then my guest room!
Love how your stairway turned out. So fun!
I would love to use this to paint my boys’ room!
My hallway is in desperate need of paint! So many grimy fingerprints and unexplainable dents and gauges!
I’d paint our stairway wall, and a vaulted family room.
Mary
My stairway is the first area I would use the PaintStick EZ-twist!
I need to paint the whole house! lol But I would start with my bedroom cause we are in the process of updating it now.
Even I could paint with this!
My vaulted living room!
I would LOVE to try this! Nifty! 😉 ~Amber
P.S. Love the creative use of space! We do that in our home, too, and turned our “attic” into a sleeping loft for the kids. They love it!
I want to repaint my bedroom and my basement needs it too.
That is the coolest thing ever!!!! I might have to get one of these for my new apartment….I think being disabled that this is a way I can paint walls again…..gotta love a new fresh wall
My kids create an unbelievable amount of handprints throughout our house. It seems like I am always painting! This tool might make it just a little bit easier!
I would like to paint my upstairs bathroom with this tool.
What a wonderful painting tool!
Everywhere!!! I’ve got the painting itch!
I love the chalkboard wall! I have a large one in my dining/school room that is so much fun! I’d use the Paintstick for my family room, bathrooms, hallway, well, just about every room! I’m on home makeover mission these days! Thanks for these giveaways!!
All the rooms if it’s that easy!
Looks great! We have a stairway that needs doing… looks like this might be a great tool to get it done 🙂
I really could use this—need to paint the house–would make short time of it.
I would finish painting my kitchen!!! Then I would do my bedroom! 🙂 Then I would do the hallways that were taped to be painted…*ahem*…7 years ago! THEN I would re-do all of my rooms that need it….ohhh, I would go CRAZY!!!!!!! 🙂
There’s no question that this would be great to use in every room. I’m in the process of painting all the rooms (one by one) in my old farmhouse with 10 foot ceilings. This would be great to have to eliminate so much bending and twisting to refresh the roller all the time.
Sally
PS: I love the idea of making some walls of the home into chalkboards.
I would finally paint the walls in my stairwell and hallway…. They are really high and an ugly sponge paint but I couldn’t reach and refuse to get on a ladder on the steps! This would be amazing!!!
We have been renovating our entire 1939 Craftsman style house since the day we moved in 6 years ago so we have done a lot of painting! The next room will probably be the kitchen. Thanks for the giveaway opportunity 🙂
Oh, Lisa! My living room ceiling was last painted with that. Then I lost a part, “gasp!” It has been begging to be repainted for years and years now.
I need to paint all my ceilings and this would be a big help. Thanks.
Ohh! Great job! I am a terrible painter and put it off as long as possible LOL! I am a perfectionist and see every mistake so it takes me forever! Our sunroom is the first room I’d paint for sure! It’s calling out for a fresh coat! Next I’d paint our music room – the green was pretty 8 years ago, but not so much now! The PaintStick looks like fun – maybe I could rope the kids in too!
Love, Love, Love the Paintstick Ez-Twist
I need to paint my kitchen, dining room, living room and hall! I’ve been putting it off for too long!
I would paint my mud room.
This tool looks amazing! Yes, I want one! I would paint my entry with 30 foot ceilings it isn’t easy to go up and down the ladder with a paint tray!
What a fun, useful product! I would paint my “Learning Room” (homeschool and crafts, and sometimes “Mia’s room” when my mom comes to visit)), the last room yet to be repainted in our house.
I would use one in my living room!! High ceilings!!! Love the site!!!
I’d paint my third floor master bedroom suite! Sea glass green! Oh my! Or maybe Robin’s egg blue! Oh my!
My close friends room for their birthday!
That looks so awesome!!!
It seems like this would be great for ceilings as well. We just moved into a new home, so lots of painting projects around here.
Wow! We could use one of those in our MI house that we own but are still updating in order to get it on the market (now that the housing market up there is turning around…). I’d love to paint the “sponge-painted” yellow wall that spans the back of our kitchen into the “dining area” that we use for our piano. MAN! That wall treatment is SOOOOOOOOO 1990s….Maybe I’ll repaint it anyway, if I win…….The rest of the walls are painted a nice off-white. Go figure…
Oh man, I am IN LOVE. Honestly? I would paint the entire house, and then go paint the neighbor’s house, too.
But first, I think I’d do the kitchen.
Ooh, that DOES look amazing! I think that’s just what we need to get our teens to help with painting. They’ve actually been wanting to paint their rooms, so maybe this would be a good beginning point? Thanks for the tip!
What a great way to paint stairways! I would so like this for our house.
Oh my word ! I am thrilled to get your review on this paintstick thing. I am always painting and re-painting something. This would be h u g e !!!!! I could paint and re-paint even more 🙂
That looks real easy and I am all for that when it comes to painting! I need to paint my bedroom and that would sure come in handy! The stairway looks nice!