How to Paint the Ceilings in My Mobile Home

Run a piece of 2-inch masking tape around the walls in each room where the wall meets the ceiling. Press the upper edge of the tape into the corner and leave the lower edge of the tape loose. Keep the upper edge going in a straight line around the perimeter of the room.

Stick pieces of painter's plastic beneath the loose edge of the tape and press them together. Allow these pieces of plastic to drape down the wall to the floor until all of the walls have been curtained.

Lay a painter's dropcloth on the floor.

Mask off all light fixtures on the ceiling with tape and paper.

Spot-prime all stains on the ceiling with a stain-blocking primer paint, using a paintbrush.

Clean the primer from the paintbrush with water. Spin the brush to get the excess water out of its bristles.

Open a can of paint and dip a paintbrush in until the bristles are loaded with paint.

Paint the entire edge of the ceiling, at least 3 inches out from the wall.

Paint around the light fixtures; 3 inches out. This is called "cutting the ceiling in."

Pour the remainder of the finish paint into a 5-gallon bucket.

Hang a paint roller screen from the inner lip of the bucket rim.

Put a 1/2-inch nap roller cover on a 9-inch roller frame and screw a pole extension into the handle of the roller frame.

Dip the roller nap up and down in the paint in the bucket until the nap is loaded with paint. Roll the roller up and down on the metal paint screen, dipping the nap into the paint about 1/2 inch each time the roller goes down and up.

Move the bucket of paint to one side of the room in the corner.

Roll the ceiling one roller width at a time from wall to wall until the entire ceiling is painted.

Repeat this process for all of the other ceilings in the mobile home.