Can I use white paint instead of primer if I'm painting the wall white?

I'm painting over a pale blue and a pale green. We are painting the walls white, then painting a few murals on the walls. Do we need to prime the walls first, or should two coats of white paint do the trick?Can I use white paint instead of primer if I'm painting the wall white?
yes...you only need to prime if you have used a dark color before-hand.Can I use white paint instead of primer if I'm painting the wall white?
I would get a very good ';cover in one coat'; white paint and see most likely it will cover. Worst case you use two coats which is no worse then priming it %26amp; then painting it.





I just covered a medium blue with white and it covered in one coat. Saved me a lot of extra work.
It may depend on how well your new white paint covers old paint. Not all paints are the same in this regard. Why not try two coats in a small area first, before you do the whole wall?
You need to prime!! Primer is a totally different product than paint and is intended to go on before!! If you do not prime, the result could look ';unfinished';. You will get a MUCH nicer result if you do prime. It's just as much work to prime then paint and to paint 2 coats. So my suggestion would be to prime first.
Since you state that you are taking the time to create a work of art on the walls, I'd say you should treat your walls like a painter treats his canvas: he primes it. But after that, I'd say you only need one well applied coat of white, not two.





If you were just gonna leave it white, I'd say don't worry about it. But, since you don't know what pigment types were used in the blue and green paints, no matter how light, don't chance it. That, and you never know if there's something on the wall that you haven't noticed that bleeds through at a really obvious spot in your mural a few days from now.... that's just Murphy's Law.
If it's already painted you don't need a primer


Two or three coats of white will do.
2 coats will do.
Primer has special qualities about it. It is designed to cover stains and colors as well as to stick better than regular paint.





If you use regular paint as a primer, you may find that it does not stick to the paint (or whatever the surface underneath is) very well. This could cause the paint to peel in the future.





If the paint you are painting over is glossy, you are more likely to have problem. Glossy paint is designed to repel things and it will repel the new paint you put on (to some degree). Flat paint won't be as bad.





I'm not a painter by trade, but I've done a lot of painting in several homes and I will never again paint without using primer first. It just takes away a lot of potential problems.





Btw, if you do use primer, you should get different rollers and brushes for the regular paint. Primer is harder to clean off of equipment than most regular paint.





Good luck!
Latex paint isn't good for coverups, and most interior paint these days is latex. A primer seals the surface and will help prevent bleed-through of underlying colours. If the colours are especially vivid, you might have to do two coats of primer before you do your finish coat of white. Whooops! Sorry. I thought you were covering up murals, but you want a surface to paint the murals on? Check with your paint store guru, to make sure you get something that the mural won't bleed into. You may want to think about something other than latex, to make sure the mural doesn't ooze at the edges and muddy up the lines of your painting. Sounds like an exciting project.
Prime it. If the white paint doesn't work you will be priming anyways. Your paint will stick better to the prime coat then it will to a paint coat. There are also self priming paints on the market, thus eliminating the priming step.





Also note, that depending on the color you will be painting with, that you may need to use a tinted primer to get the correct paint color.
yes i think so. you can also try mixing lots of leftover paints to get this gray stuff that works terrific. white will work all right unless it's glaze or something really thin. it's up to you, how nice you want it to look if you want to spring for actual primer but i think the mural will cover it well anyway.
I would prime the walls first, because even if you put on 2 coats, some color might show through the paint

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