How To Paint Window Trim Without Tape
In the few years that Drew and I have lived in our house, nosotros have painted almost every single room (including the kitchen) in the house and but nearly every inch of trim. The simply original pigment left is in the bathrooms and the upstairs hallway, and mayhap a random closet here and there. This means the workroom has a pigment shelf to rival Habitation Depot, and we are never without a supply of paint rollers, paint trays and Purdy brushes. We've also settled on our favorite paints, tools and techniques.
I love the fashion a newly painted room looks, but I used to never look forward to painting. I mean, who does? All that prep, so the days messing around with painters tape, then the actual painting, then the ripping of painters tape, and then the touch up where the tape didn't do squat at protecting the edge. When I lived on my own in a new condo, I tried those fancy schmancy edge painters, and they worked well plenty I suppose. Just when you alive in a 90 year old firm with plaster walls, there'south not a perfectly straight edge in sight. Can you imagine having to tape around every odd bubble and defect in every wall?
Then what I'd like to share with y'all today are my tips on interior painting, and especially, how to paint a straight edge against a ceiling or around molding without using any of that pesky blue tape. I say "interior" painting, because every bit Drew will tell you lot, exterior painting and prepping is a whole different ball game!
1. Don't skimp on the supplies. I used to employ generic brushes and big box store make pigment. The pigment would go on thin, spray all over me, leave streaks, and I would stop up having to paint on several coats to get the right color. The brushes would shed hairs in the paint and on a sticky wall. We learned our lesson.
We now purchase Benjamin Moore pigment, and oh my heaven, the first time the proficient pigment touched the wall, I retrieve I heard the angels sing. Information technology covered beautifully, and we have never needed more than ii coats of paint. Our brushes on Purdy angled brushes, and they are meticulously cleaned after every apply, considering dang, they are expensive! We buy cheap rollers to use with the primer, and fine fuzz or sponge rollers for the top coat.
ii. Invest in a metal paint tray, and buy cheap liners in bulk.
3. Use quondam shower defunction, bedsheets or towels as drop cloths.
4. Buy a proficient big angled brush for edging and you'll never demand to tape an edge again. Woohoo!
v. Prime everything starting time. If y'all're covering both wall and trim, priming can be a slightly sloppy thing, since you won't demand to know where the edge is (except for the ceiling).
6. After priming, decide if y'all'll paint the wall or trim first. I like to pigment trim first. So, that's crown molding first (or ceiling beginning, if necessary), and all window/door/chair rail trim and then base molding. Whatever mistakes in the trim, where you went "over the line" can be corrected/covered with the wall pigment. Drew likes to politely disagree slightly and say that base molding is easier to practise last. Whatever floats your boat.
7. Edge without using tape! Take your clean, angled brush, load information technology upwards with pigment, and rest it gently close to the edge y'all want to pigment. Make sure it doesn't glop too much. Carefully move the brush up to (or down to) the edge, and apply the side of the castor to create that straight edge. Now just move the castor steadily against the border (pulling is easier than pushing) until you beginning running low on paint. Move the castor perpendicularly away from the edge and end the stroke. Load up with paint again, overlap where yous left off and paint another direct edge. Pretty easy right? That was a lot of talk for not a lot of tutorial, I know. Here'due south a handy tip – don't try to edge when drunk, or when cold. You need a steady manus for a make clean edge!
Yeah, I did clean upwards that drip.
8. Roll a bead of paint along. Huh? In the picture below, practise you lot see that footling glop of paint right at the bottom of the brush? That tells me at that place'southward still enough paint in the brush to keep going, and that's the paint that I'k pushing upwards against the molding to create the straight border. When that bead of paint goes away, it's time to cease that paint stroke.
8. When painting the wall, go along a wet edge.I like to edge a piffling, and then roll a little, as the roller tends to provide a smoother terminate, and helps alloy the edging meliorate. If yous gyre on pigment starting time, then pigment the edges with a brush, you'll always meet a fleck of those brush marks.
In our house, we've pretty much lost runway of where our blue painters record is. We practice however need information technology sometimes, to cover doorknobs and hinges we're too lazy to remove, but at to the lowest degree we no longer spend a mean solar day taping and another solar day painstakingly stripping record without ruining our difficult work. And nosotros've been able to adapt to all the bumps in the wall likewise.
I hope this helps you in your side by side painting adventure! If you have any questions, just leave a annotate, or find me on Facebook!
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