In the Western area of the USA and especially in my area along the coastline, stucco is a commonly used exterior finish. This finish coating can withstand the weather elements better than most other exterior building materials within it's cost range. After several coatings of paint applied over many years, it becomes necessary to remove all the layers of existing paint to obtain a quality and longer lasting repainting job. The method used to remove the existing old applied paint is by sand blasting all the layers off. After this proceedure is completed, restuccoing in a selected color or applying a sprayed on coating, in a selected color, can be completed. If the choice was to apply a sprayed on coating after the sand blasting, years later it again becomes necessary to repaint. The question now becomes how to repaint over an existing sprayed on textured coating. Opinions on how to accomplish this task vary widely. Some professional painters spray the new paint directly on the textured coating, while others will not. Those that will not spray claim repainting over a textured coating must be done with a roller only. Both those that spray or roll will perform all the reqired prep work first and will apply an undercoating, if changing colors. If not changing colors, both claim appling two coats of the new color paint will cover correctly. The question here is who is correct? Spray or Roll? To further complicate matters, some painters will not repaint over any textured coating without lightly sandblasting first. The theory on this method is to insure the new paint will not be applied to any un-noticed loosened textured material. The next question is which method is correct? Sand blast entire surface first or just chip loosened areas, fill and repaint? All professional opinions and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Regards & Thanks Tom_B

I am painting my kitchen in a dark cinnamon color. I did all the preparation, i.e. patched, sanded, primed (tinted primer), but the paint is going on very unevenly, i.e. light in some areas, dark in others, I am a novice, so it may be something I am doing, but the primer went on just fine. Is there a trick to dark colors? Help!!!