I am about to have my basement painted. I want to use a low Voc paint due to children in the home. My Ben Moore paint store told me that I can use Aura paints. We are going to use a very light color. I have mainly pre-exsisting sheetrock with an off white color and I also have some new sheetrock with spackle that has been sanded smooth. My paint store told me I do NOT have to prime. Just use 2 coats of the Aura paint over new and existing sheetrock and it will be fine. Is this ok or should I prime the room first. I am a little leery of not priming but obviously would rather not if what my dealer is telling me is true.

I have a bedroom that has wallpaper on the walls. I have started to remove the wall paper and when we wallpapered the walls some 10 years ago we first primed the walls before we wallpapered the walls so it would stick better. But now that I am taking down the wallpaper i have noticed that some of the primer has come off the wall with the wallpaper so now I want to paint the walls but there are spots that the primer has come off so now the walls are uneven in some places. My question is how do I fix this? Do I need to just reprime the walls or will this not help? I am lost please help! Thanks Robert