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Painting Baseboards and Trim

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An Ultimate Guide To Cut Ins: Paint Straight Lines Like a Pro!

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When painting along baseboards and trim, especially over frog tape, use a brush for application. For areas like door jambs where only one side is visible (e.g., the back of the trim facing an internal wall), you can simply brush to ensure coverage, as perfection isn't needed. For visible trim edges, gently run the brush along the top of the baseboard, being careful not to force paint under the tape. Use a very light touch with the brush to prevent bleeding. A stiff brush has a tendency to force paint underneath the tape, so a softer touch is essential. After brushing, back-roll the painted areas next to the tape with a roller to match the texture of the rest of the wall. For smaller areas, like a door frame, you can use a small roller to apply paint to the vertical sections of the trim, again ensuring the paint stays away from the ceiling or adjacent surfaces.

Goal: Apply paint cleanly and effectively along baseboards, door jambs, and trim.

Tools and materials

  • 4-inch Roller — Back-rolling painted trim and baseboard areas
  • Angled Sash Brush Premier — Applying paint to trim and baseboards
  • Frog Tape FrogTape — Masking off baseboards and trim
  • Paint Behr Dynasty — Painting trim and baseboards

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imperfections and stuff really really well just load it up I tap it up there make sure like I come out of the bucket if you can't rotate it if you just lift it up you're less likely to drip don't drag it up in this direction lift it up take it to my cut in come back opposite direction fill it all in there's anything I miss hit that just like that so this is another question I get asked like quite a bit that I want to address right here I don't think I've ever address it in um a video before on Cut ends now if I'm two coating my walls and I'm one coating my cut ends well what if I get light spots do I two coat my cut ends all this I'm going to roll all the way up here as high as I can I'm when I roll my walls I'm going to come up about this far and I've got some tips and tricks on how you actually do that and consistently get that close now I can see already you know there's some light areas right here and I always go back when everything's dry that's the very last thing I do I'll go back and touch up my cut ends there'll only be certain spots that need to be touched up and I don't touch them up in the same direction I just come back and touch them up going down and I'll show you what that looks like on the opposite side of the room here where the walls are dry and I got a touch-up cut ends but I just touchup I don't recut in everything so it goes like extremely fast and that's where if you use a low-end paint that doesn't cover very well you're going to have touch-ups all over the room but if you use a high-end paint that covers well and some of the paints say they're one coat paints and I have used a one coat paint before they did cins in a room didn't have to touch up anything there's this is a white usually whites um don't cover nearly as well it's a white going over dark there be a few c ends it's very simple fast to go back and touch them up so see now when I'm doing my ceiling cins when I got small areas like this to do I'm going to cut in top the door here and then I'm going to fill this in with my roller and I don't want to brush the top of this so all the walls are stippled with paint so I'm going to stipple them with the roller now once again I want to address the type of walls we have here you have to understand this is Orange Peel texture this is a probably the most common texture we see in Idaho it's just sprayed on texture um very forgiving hides a lot of stuff it's very common for orange peel hand texture on the ceilings and so it's okay to…

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