This room was initially used as a workshop for a wood crafting hobbyist (when home was purchased in 1950). The plan to eventually turn it into a spare bedroom/guest room was never realized. Instead, it became a room to store belongings (since 1970). Imagine an “attic room”, for the past

I just painted a room with an alkyd base paint with one coat. Can I now paint a second coat with a water based paint?

I’m having problems with my primer paint peeling from the old, appears to be a oil based paint. I’ve been scraping the excess paint that’s peeling. The oil base in the living room appears to be OK. It’s the bedroom we applied primer paint, only to find that the paint

I just primed and painted the trim in my bedroom green and I don’t like the color. Now I think I’ll go with white. Everything was primed and painted with acrylic paint, and I was planning on painting white semi-gloss over the green semi-gloss paint. The question is, do I

We just had our walls painted. It was very humid and the painter was rushed. He put on a second coat with a very short wait time between coats. One spot did not take the paint well and he said it appeared some oily stain was on the wall. Now

I am painting my bathroom and the first coat is done. It was recommended that I use a sateen finish and I find it too shiny. I want to switch to satin finish and am wondering about painting that straight over the sateen.

Can you paint latex paint over latex without priming first? I want to paint my living room over old latex paint and I’m not sure if it needs priming first.

Is it good practice to paint spindles, fillets, and handrails prior to painting? A friend is replacing his stair handrails, spindles, fillets and guides. It seems a good idea to paint them prior to fitting, am I right?