10 Painting Tips & Tricks You Never Knew (Part Three)

It's that fourth dimension again! Welcome to 10 Paint Secrets Part Three! 
You tin shipping away grab upwards on Part One together with Part Two if you lot missed them before this year.

For operate three, I'm sharing a few of my ain trusty pigment tips every bit good every bit a few novel tips that were sent to me past times readers (that I eventually tested together with out loved). Enjoy!

#1. How to spray pigment glass

One of my favorite budget decorating ideas is to purchase drinking glass vases at the thrift shop together with spray pigment them to mimic ceramic. It's cheap, looks great, together with tin shipping away update simply nigh whatever sort of thrift shop vase.

To pigment glassware, wipe the entire affair alongside isopropyl alcohol nigh 10 minutes before you lot spray pigment it. I use this high gloss white spray pigment (affiliate link) together with alongside simply a few low-cal coats, it turns out super shiny, almost similar white ceramic. I wouldn't recommend washing it inwards the dishwasher, but if handled carefully, it should lastly for awhile.

Here's an example...I spray painted a drinking glass vase I picked upwards for $1, together with used it on the bluish dresser.

#2. Use a dollar shop shower pall every bit a dropcloth.
After icon to a greater extent than than twenty pieces of thrift shop furniture, I've gone through means every bit good many expensive driblet cloths. And together with thence I figured out that dollar shop shower curtains brand a totally decent driblet cloth. And they toll a dollar. 

Pick upwards a few together with tell goodbye to the days of spending $30 on a canvass driblet stuff that won't fifty-fifty jibe inwards the washer.

#3. Put your paintbrush inwards the fridge. 

This is a tip that a reader sent me. And it's genius. Basically, when you lot are done icon for the day, simply lay your paintbrush inwards a ziploc handbag together with shop it inwards the fridge. The pigment doesn't dry out on your brush for upwards to a week, together with you lot relieve tons of fourth dimension non having to launder the pigment out of your paintbrush.

 I painted an entire job solid past times myself before learning this. 

WHY.

#4. The crude versus latex test

When icon over existing paint, it's super of import to know if the onetime pigment is latex or oil. If you lot don't know, you lot tin shipping away figure it out alongside this uncomplicated test. Just rub a cotton fiber ball soaked inwards rubbing alcohol over the painted surface. If some of the pigment comes off onto the cotton fiber ball, the surface is latex. If not, the surface has been painted alongside an crude based paint. If it is crude based, brand certain to utilization crude based primer before starting.

 See my tips on crude vs. latex pigment here.

#5. The cardboard box trick

Use a cardboard box to preclude overspray when spray icon pocket-sized items. It's uncomplicated together with it works. 

And Jesse cheers the reader who suggested this to me, since our yard no longer looks similar it's been graffitied. 

#6. Use tacks to lift pocket-sized objects when spray painting.

Use tacks to prop upwards pocket-sized items when spray icon thence that the pigment tin shipping away fully comprehend it. This plant particularly corking for frames, which is something I often spray paint. 

#7. Repair dents on onetime slice of furniture alongside forest filler to hit a polish pigment finish.

Just hit amount inwards whatever dents alongside forest filler together with 1 time it's dry, sand it polish alongside some fine grit sand paper. It's slow to do, together with volition brand your pigment chore await professional.

You tin shipping away run across some forest filler inwards activity here. 

#8. How to pigment the door together with NOT the hinges.

I've painted xv doors inwards this house, together with I swear past times this tip.

 Instead of removing the doors before I pigment them, I simply comprehend upwards all of my hinges alongside painter's tape, together with thence utilization an exacto knife to take away the excess. Then I tin shipping away pigment the doors piece they are all the same attached to the frame, together with I don't acquire pigment all over the hinges. It's a amount timesaver.

#9. The easiest means to aureate leaf.

Remember when I silvery leafed that entire desk together with it was a amount nightmare (even though it turned out kinda awesome)? Well, since together with thence I've been searching for an easier option together with I finally constitute it...Liquid Leaf (affiliate link). It almost looks similar the existent thing. And although that jounce looks tiny, a piddling goes a actually long way.

You tin shipping away run across an lawsuit of when I used some Liquid Leaf to brand fine art here.

#10. Get rid of brushstrokes forever.

This is my favorite tip together with totally changed the means I paint. To acquire rid of brushstrokes, simply add together a little Floetrol (affiliate link) to your latex paint. 

It's seriously every bit slow every bit that.

CAN I GET AN AMEN.

That's all for today! 

Thanks for sharing all of your corking tips alongside me. And cheers for beingness here. To run across operate 1 of this series, go here, or for operate two, go here.

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