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Greenway Carpet And Upholstery Cleaning
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Faux Painting: Clouds
A great way to decorate a kid's room is with "clouds" - painted on the ceiling. You don't need to be an artist to do a good job with this, just follow the procedure carefully. Start with a base coat of a flat latex paint tinted to a powder blue. Roll the paint on the ceiling in the normal ceiling painting way. Allow this paint to dry then proceed on to painting your clouds. Clouds are painted on the ceiling with a flat white latex paint. The cloud shapes are painted onto the ceiling with a sea sponge and / or a rag. The key to doing a good job is to get wispy edges by thinly applying the paint out into the blue background. Use a latex glaze with your white latex paint to give your clouds translucency. It is useful to have a picture or two of clouds on hand to kind of use for inspiration when painting your clouds. The clouds will have denser middle sections and more translucent edges with light, floating pieces of cloud that fade out into the blue background. Make your clouds of different sizes and shapes and avoid repetition. Above all, have fun - it's only paint. See Painting Faux Clouds for more details and see the Painting and Decorating Concourse for more information on faux painting techniques. ...read more
By Paint-N-Stain Inc. October 16, 2011
Priming and Painting New Drywall
Painting new drywall is fairly simple, particularly if you will be using flat latex paint (as do most new construction painters). You don't have to use the cheap flat paints that new house painters use. They do so because they need a paint that can be touched up invisibly. If you are painting after the remodeling is complete - even after the carpet is down, if you'd prefer (which is best if you don't want to touch up), you should not have any touching up to do. Hence, you may use a high grade flat paint, or a low sheen satin or eggshell finish with good results. Priming You should always prime new drywall. Don't skip this step. Don't use the finish paint as a primer either. New drywall PVA primers work very well to wet the substrate and seal it. You can run into paint problems if you decide to use the finish paint as a "primer". Don't do it. See PVA Drywall Primer. Remove the drywall sanding dust prior to priming. There are a couple of ways to do this: the first way is to use a shop vacuum with a good fine particle HEPA cartridge filter. If using a Shop vacuum, you would want to "bag" the dust upstream with a collection bag, then use a final cartridge filter down steam. The second way to remove the dust is to use a rag (like a micro fiber tack cloth) attached to a pole sander head, or better yet, use the Dust Eater mop head made by Wooster designed for this very purpose. Painting Once you have primed the drywall and it has fully dried, you can finish paint with either flat or low sheen latex paint. If you are painting with a sheen paint, you will have to apply two coats for good sheen uniformity. Flat paint will usually work fine with only one coat if you are using a high quality flat paint. See How to Paint New Drywall for more complete instruction on how to paint new drywall. ...read more
By Paint-N-Stain Inc. October 11, 2011