Painting Tips
How to Paint a Living Room Without Wrecking Your Weekend
A living room is not technically harder to paint than a bedroom. The walls behave the same way, the roller works the same way and…
Painting Tips
How to Paint a Laundry Room (Damp, Small and Full of Appliances)
A laundry room is a small painting job with a big setup. The wall area is tiny, the access is terrible, and the two things…
Painting Tips
How to Paint a Kitchen (Walls and Ceiling, Not the Cabinets)
Painting a kitchen is mostly a cleaning job. The rolling is the easy part. What decides whether the finish lasts two years or ten is…
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How to Paint a Sunroom: Glazing Bars, Heat and All That Cutting In
A sunroom breaks the assumption every other painting guide is built on. Normally a room is mostly wall, so you cut in the edges and…
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How to Paint a Foyer: Entrance Halls, Double Height Walls and Trim
A foyer is the room everyone sees and nobody plans for. It is usually the first space a visitor stands in, often the tallest, almost…
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How to Paint a Stairwell Safely (Tall Walls, Gable Ends and Access)
Painting a stairwell is an access problem first and a painting problem second. The walls themselves are ordinary drywall or plaster, and the paint goes…
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How to Paint a Garage (Walls, Ceiling and the Floor Question)
This guide is about painting the garage as a space: the walls, the ceiling, and what to do about the floor. It is not about…
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How to Paint a Basement (Moisture, Masonry and Method)
Before you buy a single item for a basement paint job, test the walls for moisture. Tape a piece of clear plastic sheet, roughly a…
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How to Paint Gutters (Aluminium, Steel, Copper and Vinyl)
You can paint gutters, and painted gutters can look excellent, but only if you solve the adhesion problem first. Gutters are almost always factory-finished aluminium,…
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How to Paint Wood Siding (Complete Prep and Painting Guide)
Painting wood siding is roughly eighty percent preparation and twenty percent painting. The short version: wash the siding and treat any mildew, scrape and sand…