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Cut In Edges (Ceiling & Baseboards)

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Painting Perfect Walls. Master Rolling Interior Walls.

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What happens here

The video demonstrates painting a room where the baseboards and ceiling will be the same dark color as the walls, simplifying the cutting-in process. Use a brush to apply paint along the edges where the wall meets the ceiling and where the wall meets the baseboards. The speaker emphasizes working from a ladder for ceiling edges and kneeling for baseboards. Maintain a 'wet edge' by not letting the painted edge dry before the roller application begins. For baseboards, brush horizontally along the trim, not vertically, to avoid accidental drips or paint getting onto the floor, especially if not taped. While the specific situation in the video allows for a quicker cutting-in process, the principle of creating clean edges with a brush before rolling remains crucial.

Goal: Carefully apply paint along the ceiling line and baseboards using a brush, ensuring a straight line and maintaining a 'wet edge' before rolling the main wall sections.

Tools and materials

  • Frog Tape
  • Paint Behr Dynasty

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there it's a pig saver lid all right now I'm going to begin rolling the walls I'm going to give you some tips and tricks how to get the perfect finish on your walls especially when using darker colors the darker colors the harder it is to get a perfect finish the scenario I'm going to be working with today is kind of unusual so the sequence of how you do things is a little bit different but still the application of the paint is going to be the same the baseboards are going to be the same colors of the walls so I don't have to do any type of cutting into the baseboards and coffee my day the ceilings are going to be the same color as a wall laws so I'm like I'm cutting my edges first one thing um why I do like using the product I'm using today with this really dark blue color and I think this is going to go with any dark colors you're going to be using I've never used a paint before that was a true one coat paint like this paint before so this is a one copay so the process is going to be I'm going to do my cut ends first and then I'm going to roll and one of the things when it comes to getting the perfect finish you have to always be working with a wet Edge and I'll talk about that and show that as we go along a wet Edge is absolutely essential to not getting lines haloing or lot worms so I'm going to begin Now by doing my cut ends and I'm filling in my edges first so the first thing I do will begin just filling in these Corners right here this is going to be using a brush because my roller cannot fill this in unless I use others of a wool or call them Corner roller which would actually do this without having to use their brush today I'm going to be using a different roller and I'll talk about that roller and why I'm using it not working down here with my baseboards I'm going to be brushing my baseboards I've got froth tape down here so I don't have to worry about my pay actually bleeding onto my floor and someone began just brushing the paint I'm going to just brush it horizontal and not vertical I want to just get nice brush Strokes on this trim the you can see how well this paint covers being a one co-paying of this white this dark collarbone right over this white and once again this is kind of a very unique situation where Hustler wanted the trim same color as the walls same Sheen in this movie room being a matte finish it's going to look absolutely amazing with this color I want to take it above my trim because I want my third brushed I don't want…

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