DIY x Painting Tips & Tricks You Never Knew (Part Three)

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

For business office 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 too 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 too spray pigment them to mimic ceramic. It's cheap, looks great, too tin update but almost whatever sort of thrift shop vase.

To pigment glassware, wipe the entire affair amongst isopropyl alcohol almost 10 minutes before you lot spray pigment it. I use this high gloss white spray pigment (affiliate link) too amongst but a few lite coats, it turns out super shiny, almost similar white ceramic. I wouldn't recommend washing it inward the dishwasher, but if handled carefully, it should finally for awhile.

Here's an example...I spray painted a drinking glass vase I picked upwardly for $1, too used it on the blueish dresser.

#2. Use a dollar shop shower mantle 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 drib cloths. And hence I figured out that dollar shop shower curtains brand a totally decent drib cloth. And they toll a dollar. 

Pick upwardly a few too tell goodbye to the days of spending $30 on a canvass drib textile that won't fifty-fifty tally inward the washer.

#3. Put your paintbrush inward 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, but set your paintbrush inward a ziploc purse too shop it inward the fridge. The pigment doesn't dry out on your brush for upwardly to a week, too you lot salve tons of fourth dimension non having to launder the pigment out of your paintbrush.

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

WHY.

#4. The crude oil versus latex test

When icon over existing paint, it's super of import to know if the former pigment is latex or oil. If you lot don't know, you lot tin figure it out amongst this unproblematic test. Just rub a cotton fiber ball soaked inward 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 amongst an crude oil based paint. If it is crude oil based, brand certain to move crude oil based primer before starting.

 See my tips on crude oil vs. latex pigment here.

#5. The cardboard box trick

Use a cardboard box to preclude overspray when spray icon pocket-size items. It's unproblematic too it works. 

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

#6. Use tacks to nurture pocket-size objects when spray painting.

Use tacks to prop upwardly pocket-size items when spray icon hence that the pigment tin fully encompass it. This industrial plant peculiarly groovy for frames, which is something I oftentimes spray paint. 

#7. Repair dents on former slice of furniture amongst forest filler to exercise a smoothen pigment finish.

Just fill upwardly inward whatever dents amongst forest filler too in ane lawsuit it's dry, sand it smoothen amongst some fine grit sand paper. It's slow to do, too volition brand your pigment labor await professional.

You tin run across some forest filler inward activity here. 

#8. How to pigment the door too NOT the hinges.

I've painted fifteen doors inward this house, too I swear past times this tip.

 Instead of removing the doors before I pigment them, I but encompass upwardly all of my hinges amongst painter's tape, hence move an exacto knife to take away the excess. Then I tin pigment the doors spell they are yet attached to the frame, too I don't acquire pigment all over the hinges. It's a sum timesaver.

#9. The easiest means to gilt leaf.

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

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

#10. Get rid of brushstrokes forever.

This is my favorite tip too totally changed the means I paint. To acquire rid of brushstrokes, but 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 groovy tips amongst me. And thank you lot for beingness here. To run across business office ane of this series, go here, or for business office two, go here.

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