* Load up a section of wall with paint, and then even out that paint. Don’t try to make paint look perfectly even from the moment you apply it to a surface. Instead, focus first on getting enough paint onto every part of a section of wall roughly two to three feet wide. Apply a […]

* Load up your roller with lots of paint. Painting with too little paint on a roller, known as “dry napping,” results in tiny gaps in the paint-it’s among the most common mistakes DIYer painters make. A too-dry roller even could pick up paint already applied rather than lay additional paint down. Not sure if […]

Painting Three pro tips for applying paint… * Paint edges first. On walls, use a paint brush to “cut in” paint around moldings, ceilings and other edges before you use your roller on rest of the wall. DIYers sometimes do this in the reverse order because they want to delay doing the tricky edge bits […]