How to Paint With a Double Roller

Place the drop cloths onto the floor to minimize messes on the floor surface. Apply painter’s tape along baseboards, adjacent walls, ceilings, window trim and doorway trim.

Pour the base coat latex paint into the paint tray (minus the double roller insert).

Load the angled trim brush and paint around the perimeter of the wall to cut in the base color. Load the standard paint roller with base color paint and fill in the center area of the wall with an even layer of paint. Allow the base coat to dry completely.

Place the double roller insert into the empty paint tray. Pour paint color one in the left side of the insert and paint color two in the right side of the insert. Load the double paint roller with both paints in the same way you would load a standard paint roller.

Begin applying the loaded double paint roller to the wall in the upper right corner of the wall. Working in a 3-foot square area, roll the paint roller in up-and-down, diagonal and back-and forth motions to apply both colors to the area evenly. Blend the colors as you roll until you finish applying paint to the area.

Reload the paint roller and continue painting the wall in 3-foot areas. Continue blending, reloading and applying paint until you cover the entire wall in an even and blended manner.

Load the left half of the edging tool with paint color one and the right half of the edging tool with paint color two. Blot the edging tool lightly around the perimeters of the wall (ceiling, adjacent walls, windows, doorways and baseboards). Blend and blot until the perimeters look the same as the rest of the faux finish on the wall. Allow the paint to dry completely.

Remove the painter’s tape.