Years, actually decades ago, when I first started to paint for hire I learned this simple, but amazing painting trick. Paint with grace, grace for yourself.
So here is the tip:
When painting trim, if the walls are going to be painted as well, be generous with the paint and actually apply the paint onto the wall adjacent to the trim.
That way, when you’re cutting in for the wall color, you have a little painting grace if you miss a little or the edge isn’t perfectly straight, it won’t show. So simple, yet so very helpful!
Just be sure to ‘feather’ the paint out on the wall so you don’t have a ridge line from the edge of the paint on the wall.
It doesn’t look great part way through, but in the end it will look better than not doing it this way!
Plus you only need to cut in the edge on the final layer. The wall, not the trim, which, as you can see, the trim at the little brick cottage isn’t the easiest stuff to trim, so this tip really helps save time.
So go ahead, give yourself some painting grace, we can all use a little more of that in our lives, right?
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Marty says
That’s a great tip. We are starting to build our retirement home and with some of these great tips I’m not as Scared to tackle a few projects. Love your site…..I read it daily.
northern cottage says
so smart!