My wife and I are first time homeowners and are doing a lot of stuff for the first time. We removed some shelves from a wall that left some larger holes, so we got spackle and sealed them up. We painted once over the spots, then again to try to get a consistent color, but even after that, we have two problems:
1) I don't think we sanded enough spackle down, leaving bumps on the wall.
2) The color of the repainting does not match the rest of the wall, even though it's the exact same paint as when the wall was painted 4 years ago.
So…
– Should we sand down again to try to get rid of excess spackle, or is this too late now that we've repainted?
– How do we get a color match here? Should we try to repaint a third time? Or should we repaint the whole wall? How do we ensure when we repaint it's all a consistent color (do we need to paint white or prime first)?
See pics:
![Close up[![][1]](https://i.stack.imgur.com/16uV9.jpg)
![Farther away[![][2]](https://i.stack.imgur.com/l8Maa.jpg)
Best Answer
First off, you need to get those patches even with the rest of the wall and that's hard to do if you rely on sanding them down. get a mud knife larger that the patch so you can even them out with one swipe. As far as the orange peel effect, I've had great luck running a small nap roller lightly over the mud after it's had a short time to stiffen up. Then roller prime and roller paint. Good luck