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With my 2nd son getting to be too big for the cradle it will soon be time to move in into the crib. Unfortunately neither of my sons will let each other sleep if they were in the same room so they can't share the room upstairs.

So, in order to help my 2.5 year old to want to move to the room in the basement we are painting it in the colours of everyone's favorite hockey team.

The previous colours were atrocious. The room has a ledge around it and above the ledge is a very vibrant lime green, and below the ledge is a similar to the New York Rangers blue. What we will be doing is painting the walls all white, with the exception of an accent wall, which will be Calgary Flames red. The closet will also be Calgary Flames red.

I've already done a coat of primer on the walls that will be white. This is where my lack of painting expertise comes in. You can tell that there was lime green and blue below that coat of primer. I've always assumed that you do a couple of coats of primer before you do a couple of coats of the paint when you are painting over a dark colour. However my mother-in-law (whom I never want to believe, no matter how many times she proves me wrong) says that we only need to do one coat of primer.

Will it hurt to apply two coats of primer? Since I'll have so much primer left over it may not hurt to apply a 2nd coat of primer so I won't run out of paint by applying two or three coats later on.

When I get to doing the red I'll probably have to do quite a bit of coats of paint. We got special red/grey primer for that wall. But I remember doing another room with maroon paint (bottom half of wall) and it took something like 5 coats of paint to get good coverage. If I do 2 coats of primer 1st, will it help reduce the need to do many coats of paint?