I am not painting the cabinets myself but this is the way they are doing it in our house. They wanted me to paint the kitchen. The cabinet installer will come and hang all the cabinets. Then, the guy that is doing our finish on the cabinets will come in last. I assume he will tape off around my walls b/c he is going to spray them.

That's a good plan. The most important consideration is to use a high quality paint. Michael

Yea, the reason we don't spray the walls is because of 2 things. First, they need to be backrolled. This helps with sheen uniformity and the walls will be very difficult to touch up if they were not rolled. Generally speaking, spraying walls and just leaving it doesn't end up looking that great in critical light. Second, it's about production. By the time I have done the prep work so as not to get overspray on floors, ceilings, windows, trim, etc, I could be done painting the room by hand.

BT: If your GC install wood ceiling and you have to stain it upside down - it will be a lot of work... The wood ceiling was stained on the ground and then hoisted up to the ceiling. No one needs to stain it upside down (at least the first time, and presumably there will never be a second time.) HU: I'd also considered doing my own paint job. But that would not have been practical, even though I had a lot less walls to be painting than you. Good decision. I chose to use my house time to go and do things like buy the kitchen hardware, pick out the major appliances, lighting fixtures, bathroom tile, etc. I also picked out the paint colors for the various rooms. Turns out that the painter the GC hired cuts in better than I ever have. (She's now my housekeeper.) EDIT - I am painting my basement. It's not a basement for living in, but for storage, and utilities, and looking at overhead pipes and ductwork. Not a big deal to get to it when I get to it (I've done some). Or, never.