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Painting clean up can feel like it takes forever. These tips will help you minimize the mess and cut your cleanup time in half.
Tip 1: Mess-proof painting
The plastic-wrapped case that holds 24 bottles of water is a perfectly sealed tray for your paint cans, brushes and trays. When you open the water bottle package, cut the plastic about 5 in. higher than the top of the box and then fold it in.
Cut your clean up time in half
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| Our Favorite Painting Equipment |
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With these painting tips and easy-to-find tools you'll paint faster, neater and better.
Tip 1: Best way to work up high
We discovered this work platform five years ago—and we've been using it daily in our photo studio ever since. It's the perfect height to stand on to reach the top of 8-ft. walls, making it ideal for painting along ceilings. We spend a lot of time sitting on it too.
Even a novice can do a top-notch job |
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| Painting Tips |
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Master painter, Jay Gorton, shares tips and techniques from 30 years of residential painting work, covering everything from roller selection to taping to caulking and filling.
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Jay got his first painting lessons when he worked for his father-in-law painting houses in the Minneapolis area. Since then he's perfected his trade and grown a business from a one-man operation to a team of more than 30 painters at times.Learn more |
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| Decorative Painting Techniques |
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Technique 1: Random rectangles
Four layers of glazed boxes overlap to create this design. We chose golden hues, but you could produce the same effect using different colors. In general, use a darker or more opaque color for the first layer, and lighten the color and increase the transparency for each of the three succeeding layers. Where layers overlap, new shades and colors will appear. That's why you must create a sample board before you start.
3 wall finishes, materials and techniques |
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