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Make Custom Colored Chalk Paint at Home with 4 Ingredients
How to Make Chalk Paint Chalk paint is so versatile it makes refinishing projects a breeze. Due to its adhesion properties, you can use it on just about any surface, with little to no prep. However,...
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Stuff We Love: Restore Coat Flex Paint
Most of us wouldn’t think to paint a worn out old car seat or a leather purse, but this new Restore Coat paint allows you to do just that. Originally created with auto restoration in mind, this...
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How to Remove Paint from Clothes
There’s nothing like a fresh coat of paint to brighten and update any room of your home. The problem is, no matter how careful you are, paint always seems to end up not only on the wall, but on your...
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8 Garage Paint Ideas to Consider Inside and Out
Garage Paint Ideas Your garage is an extension of your home and serves many functions. Often, a garage is a storage space, a workshop and a hangout space. Many garages are mostly unfinished spaces but...
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10 Super-Cool Ideas for Painting a Girl’s Bedroom
On the Dot Adding vibrancy to a room isn’t always about coating it with a saturated, favorite color. Sometimes it’s painting everything white, then adding in a palette of colors that pleases your...
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10 Ideas for Painting a Boy’s Bedroom
Zoom Room Consider building a play space from all angles. Little ones obsessed with construction zones and cars and trucks will love zooming their vehicles across the floor and up the walls with this...
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How to Paint Wood Paneling
Make Sure the Wood Paneling Is Clean Hairspray, wallpaper glue and oils of all kinds disrupt the chemistry of paint and can result in an unacceptable paint job. Wood-paneled walls located near a...
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Stuff We Love: Painting Tools
One of the simpler upgrades any homeowner can tackle is putting a fresh coat of paint on the inside or outside of their house. Today we look at four items that will make your painting projects easier...
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View ArticleBest Deck Paints and Stains for 2020
Family HandymanStuff We Love: Paint Products It’s Time to Freshen Up Your Deck We’ve assembled some of the best deck paint and stain options on the market based on first-hand reviews, pro...
View ArticleGray or Passé: The End of a Popular Paint Trend?
Family HandymanBest-Kept Secrets of Professional Painters Great ideas for how to get a perfectly smooth and even paint job. Gray has dominated interior palettes for almost a decade, favored for its...
View ArticleHow to Use Chalk Paint
The Family HandymanHow to Paint Furniture: Farmhouse Style Chair Chalk paint has become a staple of some furniture restorers and upcyclers. Chalk paint is a low-VOC water-based paint that is also a...
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A Primer on Paint Primers
Behind every great-looking painted surface there’s almost certainly a coat of quality paint primer. As an undercoat, primer prepares the surface, promotes paint adhesion and serves as a foundation that...
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How to Paint a Door
Tools You’ll Need: Bucket Dust mask Orbital sander Paint roller Paint scraper Paint brush Putty knife Rags Roller sleeve Roller tray Sanding block Shop vacuum Utility knife Shop light Tweezers...
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9 New Paint Colors and Trends in 2020
A Fresh Paint Job Can Revamp Your Home A new coat of paint is a fast and relatively easy way to revamp your home. Adding a pop of color, new undertones or a bold and trendy pattern will make a room...
View ArticleHow Heat and Humidity Impact Exterior Paint
All exterior paint interacts with its environment during application and over its lifespan. This means that factors like heat and humidity must be understood and accounted for when planning your...
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House Painting Mistakes Everyone Makes (and How to Avoid Them)
Choosing the Wrong Colors One of the biggest, most devastating painting mistakes you can make happens before you even pick up a brush or roller. That mistake is basing your paint color choice on color...
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7 New Painting Tools to Try in 2020
Paint Spraying Gun A traditional brush and roller will do the job, but this handy piece of machinery will help you do it faster. A paint sprayer is ideal for large jobs, such as painting several rooms...
View ArticleWhat Is the New Gooseneck Paint Brush?
Get to know the gooseneck paintbrush, an innovative new paint applicator with a distinctive handle that offers advantages to the standard straight version. What Is a Gooseneck Paintbrush? The gooseneck...
View ArticleBest Paint-Matching Apps
It always seems easy enough. You want a simple gray, a navy blue or even white. You peruse piles of paint chips and make multiple trips to the store for samples. Then it goes up on your wall, and...
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How to Use Paint Primer to Tackle the Toughest Problems
Professional painters know that a quality primer can be a real problem-solver—the secret to a perfect finish even when the underlying surface is decidedly less than perfect. As an undercoat, primer...
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6 Paint Brands’ Color of the Year for 2020
Case of the Blues Pantone quite literally wrote the book on color. Their expertise in coding color-matching and printing made it possible for graphic designers and the like to match complicated color...
View Article7 Tips for Choosing the Right White Paint
What You Need to Consider Before Choosing Paint Even a cursory scroll through Instagram or Pinterest quickly shows all-white home-décor color palettes are still trending white hot, years after the...
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29 Painting Tool Hacks To Get Your Projects Rolling
Quick Drying Hanger Here’s a handy way to dry and store paint brushes. Using a hand-saw, cut a slanted slice out of the handle from the hole toward the bristles. After cleaning, hook the brush over a...
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Paint Ideas That Make Small Rooms Look Bigger
If you’ve got cramped or dark spaces, chances are you’re looking to make them feel brighter and airier. What’s more, the solution can vary from room to room. We spoke with the experts to learn...
View ArticleWhat to Know About Painter’s Tape
In 1925, 3M scientist Richard Drew invented masking tape. Almost 65 years later, the company made history again when it discovered the formula for ScotchBlue painter’s tape. Credited with...
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