Cutting In the Walls to Paint a Living Room

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Hello, my name is Grady Johnson and I'm a professional painter and today I represent Expert Village.com. OK, we've gone ahead and painted the ceiling and it's dried in really good. SO now I'm going to go ahead and cut in my walls. Now when you're cutting in the walls, a couple of things you need to think about, the top edge is going to be the most important one and that's going to be the line that everyone's going to look at. If you need to tape this, go ahead, but if you've got to tape this use the blue tape. Don't use the yellow or you're going to pull that old paint off of there. Whenever you're cutting in the walls you don't need to worry as much about covering the whole room, the important part is to cover a good swath up next to the wall. Now when you're painting a wall those drips are closer to the ground so they're going to be much heavier, so try to double those drop clothes up or use cardboard. That way it won't bleed through and get on the surface underneath. Now, the main thing you need to think about when you're cutting in a wall is you want to cut in this top line along here and you want to cut along these tape lines as well whenever you're covering anything up. Speaking of tape, we are going to paint up next to masking tape today and you'll see when I'm painting that I don't just slop that brush up next to it. If you do that the paint rolls underneath the tape and makes a mess. So cut in nice and sharp up to that tape line and you'll never have a problem and you'll get a nice straight line from that. So, remember, get a nice full brush of paint and once you have that full brush of paint just tap that out into the sides there until that seals in nice and tight then go ahead and throw out that first line. You can see, I just cut that line below it first. Just get that paint up in there. Now once you have that up there just go ahead and cut your line on across and then you can just even that out. You can see here this line is a little ragged, that's why I taped it. But, you just want to work it so that you don't lay a lot of paint up on there. And then just go ahead and brush that on out. It's just a matter of working with the paint. You see, I'm just working that up in there, and then even it out. Now remember when that brush goes on the wall it's making a mark, when you pull that off the wall it takes that mark off. You'll hear me say that a lot because that's the first thing you really need to remember about working paint. Once you have these lines laid out just even them all out, pull them all out so it doesn't make marks. And then just carry it on down to where you can reach it before you have to move your ladder. That's looking good. Got a nice sharp line and I want to keep a wet edge so I'm going to keep working down the wall. These are just a few of the tips you want to keep in mind whenever your painting the walls on your interior living room.

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