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It's tough to completely screw up painting a room—dump the paint on the floor maybe?—but painting a room really well isn't that easy, either. Home blog Re-Nest's guide to painting a room efficiently offers a few expert tips.

Re-Nest's guide to room-painting guide covers everything from making sure to remember to remove all the fixture and switch covers before getting into painting to the importance of edging in the areas your going to paint for nice even color and clean edges. If you've helped paint a room before but never done the cutting in part, it's worth a read:

Cutting In: This is the ...

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Painting - The Tools of the Trade, Make the Trade - Part 4
Tools purchased? Check. Paint purchased? Check. Drop sheets down and ready to go? Check. Let's get painting! First thing you need to know is how to hold your paint brush. Yes, there is a right and wrong way to do it. Unfortunately most people don't know or understand this important step and one or two hours into the job, they're wondering why their hand hurts so much.
How to Reduce the New Paint Odor When Painting Indoors
You may want to paint a room in your house, paint your kitchen cabinets or even a piece of furniture but you dread the odor from the paint that makes you feel sick and may even hurt your kids if they breathe it. Even though you open the windows or ventilate your house well, it's difficult to successfully reduce the new paint odor when you paint indoors.
Painting - The Tools of the Trade, Make the Trade - Part 5
Now that we've got the basics down on how to properly "cut in", we need to go over how to setup for rolling the paint with the paint roller, this way we can fill in the rest of the wall that needs paint. One thing I do want to mention is that you shouldn't cut in the whole room before you roll it. Try just cutting in one wall at a time, than go to rolling the paint on that wall, once finished, cut in another wall.
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