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Painting Pro Tips

By Morgan Saylor

Painting is one of the easiest ways to refresh the look of a room, but hard-to-reach places can make the task daunting, at best. Zillow Porchlight has some tips on three tricky areas you’re likely to encounter and how to combat them!

  • Window trim – Contrary to popular inclination, Zillow’s painting-pro tip giver See Jane Drill says that this is the one area of painting where you can be sloppy. If you get paint on the glass, simply scrape it off once it’s dry.
  • Behind the toilet – Probably the scariest place to paint, ever. Zillow recommends a “hot dog” roller for this type of hard to reach spot.
  • High ceilings & walls – Specifically staircases, where you might have difficulty positioning a ladder. Zillow recommends investing in a paint brush extension tool, which works like an extension of your arm that reaches places your roller can’t.
  • For more on pro-painting tips, check out Zillow Porchlight.

Source: http://www.zillow.com/blog/3-painting-tips-tricky-areas-201503/

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