How much paint do I need?
Short answer
The typical rooms listed below, from a bathroom to a living room, need 2 to 5 gallons of paint for two coats on walls and ceiling with 8 ft ceilings. Enter your own room below for your number.
Enter the room in feet. We count the walls without the doors and windows, add the ceiling if you paint it, and round up to whole gallons. Coverage per gallon comes from our paint guides: check the label on your can, because it is the final word.
Open in the app: start your paint jobPaint needed by room size
Paint guides
- How to prep walls for painting
- How to paint walls: first coat
- How to paint a ceiling
- How to paint walls: final coat
This is one task. Get the whole renovation in the right order.
Enter your rooms once: every task, materials for each, what you save doing it yourself, and where you must call a pro.
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