Painting the bottom of a wall with carpet is doable.
Painting a wall even if there is carpet at the bottom shouldn't deter anyone. Carpet can be masked off and when the wall is painted, the masking can be removed leaving the carpet free of paint. If the wall can be painted before the carpet is installed, it would be easier, but it is not a problem if it is done afterward. Carpet is held to the floor with a device called a tack strip, which is a thin piece of wood with tiny needle-sharp nails that face toward the wall. Avoiding these nails should be your first priority during masking.
Instructions
1. Get on your hands and knees parallel to the wall with your head pointing toward the corner and your right shoulder facing the wall. Hold the roll of masking tape in your right hand.
2. Pull a 2-foot length piece of tape off the roll.
3. Hold the piece of tape parallel along the wall from the corner. Lay the tape down on the carpet and on the bottom edge of the wall so that 1-inch of the tape's width is on the carpet and the other inch is on the wall. Don't stick the 1-inch width on the wall to the wall with your finger. Just stick the 1-inch width on the carpet to the carpet with your finger.
4. Turn perpendicular to the wall so that you're head is facing it. Place eight of your fingers in a line parallel to the wall over the first 6-inch length of tape on the carpet. Pinch your thumbs against your pointer fingers for support. Push your fingertips into the corner of the tape where it meets the end of the carpet and the bottom of the wall. Push down and pull the carpet away from the wall and watch as the tape on the wall falls down into the crack between the carpet and the wall. Push the tape down into this crack to pull the carpet fibers away from the bottom of the wall edge. You've just masked off the carpet so that you can paint the bottom of the wall. Mask off the rest of the carpet along the wall using this technique.
5. Lay painter's plastic over the floor along the base of the wall so that it's wall-facing edge overlaps the masking tape by 1/2-inch. Tape the painter's plastic to the underlying tape with masking tape all the way across the floor.
6. Open the can of paint and dip a paintbrush into it. Paint the bottom of the wall by pushing the brushes bristles into the open space you created by pulling the carpet fibers away from the wall with the masking tape. Paint all the way across the wall 4-inches up from the floor. Roll over this paint border with a mini roller to even out the brush marks. Finish painting the wall and wait 12 to 24 hours for the paint to be completely dry before removing the masking tape.
7. Slice the crease between the carpet and the bottom of the wall to cut away any paint clinging to the wall-facing edge of the tape. Do this with a utility knife to avoid pulling dried paint off the wall.
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