Bedroom walls are wallpapered a number of times and I just want to paint over the paper, but I don’t want it to look like that is what I did. How do you cover the seams in the wallpaper so it isn’t so obvious? When you watch some of the

I first removed wallpaper and marked the walls pretty badly in the process. So I patched with spackle, sanded and primed with an oil base Kilz primer. I let it dry for 48 hours and painted with a semi-gloss deep purple Glidden paint. Needless to say, every blemish and imperfection

I am having problems removing emulsion from walls I want to repaint. The reason I need to remove it is it is peeling off and is very stretchy in texture. Some of it has peeled off in foot long strips, but getting an edge by fingertip scratching has become very

When taping, where and why should I use mesh vs. paper tape?

My daughter wants her room painted pink and white. The ceiling will be white and two of the four walls will be pink. The opposite walls will be the same color. North/south, pink and east/west, white. My question is how do I approach the paint job around the ceiling and

We purchased interior wood trim and doors that have been pre-primed. Can we paint with an alkyd enamel? Also how many coats of paint are recommended?

The problem is (so I am told) that the paint job was done over three years ago and the new paint does not blend in and it’s quite obvious since I now have a blotch like mark where I ran my paint roller. I used flat wall paint of the

The 2nd floor of our cape code home has a pitched ceiling giving the illusion of being quite small. While the floor measurements of the room are approx. 14X10 the walls come up to about 3ft and then begin to slope. Not wanting the room to seem closed in, I

I am trying to paint my daughters room with a semi-gloss. I am trying to cover up semi gloss as well. She wants a large stripe through the middle, but when I removed the tape the underlying layer came right up with it! Luckily I was smart enough to do