Photo: Clayton Daniels/peopleimages.com via Adobe Stock We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn More › Home Advice You Can Trust Tips, tricks & ideas for a better home and yard, delivered to your inbox daily. Painting a room (or the furnishings that go in it) is a job most DIYers can tackle by themselves. Getting professional-looking results and avoiding mistakes, however, requires planning and preparation. It’s worth spending a little extra time to find out how to do the job right. When the goal is to get the job done quickly, sometimes you need to go slow in order to go fast.  Employ these pro tips and tricks that will help you work methodically and efficiently, and thus make the painting task go more quickly and smoothly. It sounds counterintuitive, yes, but the smarter you work the more quickly you can get you out of your painting clothes and into a freshly painted room. 1. Plan the work and work the plan.…