DIY Painting Hacks Tips

1 Don’t let bristles touch the jar bottom. DIY Painting Hacks Tips. Don’t let bristles touch the jar bottom: These pro secrets about the best way to use and care for your paintbrushes and paint rollers will make any paint job around the house easier, neater and give you beautiful results. (via The Family Handyman)

2 Paint-Can Tip

Paint-Can Tip: Painting need not be an exhaustive and messy job. Try these tips before you start your next brush job. (via Martha Stewart)

3 Cut out side of milk container and use bottom to hold paint with built in handle and paint brush holder

Cut out side of milk container and use bottom to hold paint with built in handle and paint brush holder (via MyHomeLookBook)

4 Never Clean Your Paint Tray Again

Never Clean Your Paint Tray Again: I can barely find the time to paint, let alone clean up all those brushes and trays. I was buying those disposable tray liners. But when I ran out of liners in the middle of a 2 Little Superheroes)

5 Wall Preparation Before Painting

Wall Preparation Before Painting: I’m continuing to slowly make some headway in our home office makeover the ceiling has been patched, primed, and painted and Ive finished the wall prep so that the walls are now paint-ready! I don’t know about you but while I really don’t mind painting, I HATE the wall prep. Spackling and sanding ranks right up there with cleaning out the refrigerator, pooper scooping the backyard, and waiting in the never ending line at our grocery store deli. Except Id still rather do all of those things than spackle and sand. After having prepped and painted many, many rooms, at (via Driven by Decor)

6 Tape With a Knife

Tape With a Knife: Protect against spills, splatters and other disasters (via The Family Handyman)

7 Use Martha Stewart kit to turn acrylic paint into a spray can

Use Martha Stewart kit to turn acrylic paint into a spray can (via Little Birdie Secrets)

8 Coat Hanger Drip Stopper

Coat Hanger Drip Stopper: Protect against spills, splatters and other disasters (via Family Handyman)

9 Painter’s Helper

Painter’s Helper: Painting need not be an exhaustive and messy job. Try these tips before you start your next brush job. (via Martha Stewart)

10 How to Paint Laminate

How to Paint Laminate (via DIY kinda girl)

11 Vinegar Paint Tricks

Vinegar Paint Tricks: Learn lots of ways to use vinegar, including the best way to clean paint brushes, how to remove paint from glass, how to clean cement floors and more! (via Ask Anna)

12 How to Paint Concrete

How to Paint Concrete: a little how to on how to score and paint your concrete. (via The Handmade Home)

13 Paint Roller Techniques and Tips

Paint Roller Techniques and Tips: These DIY painting tips will help you roll your walls quickly and smoothly without leaving roller marks. We’ll show you the tricks and techniques that painting pros use to get a perfectly painted room. All you need are some basic tools to paint fast, get great results and make clean up a breeze. Painting is one of the least expensive ways to make over a room, so grab a roller and let’s get to work. (via Family Handyman)

14 Window Trim Painting Tricks

Window Trim Painting Tricks: Painting tricks for windows and the trim around them is no fun – here are a few tips and tricks that will make the job easier | In My Own Style (via In My Own Style)

15 Release Masking Tape with Heat

Release Masking Tape with Heat: Protect against spills, splatters and other disasters (via The Family Handyman)

16 Stirrer Swatches

Stirrer Swatches: Painting need not be an exhaustive and messy job. Try these tips before you start your next brush job. (via Martha Stewart)

17 Remove fuzz with self-adhesive lint roller

Remove fuzz with self-adhesive lint roller: These pro secrets about the best way to use and care for your paintbrushes and paint rollers will make any paint job around the house easier, neater and give you beautiful results. (via The Family Handyman)

18 Painting Trick Using Vaseline

Painting Trick Using Vaseline: Long ago i posted about using vaseline (petroleum jelly) as a way to get a chippy paint finish. It just makes it so the paint doesn’t stick to whatever you are (via Sweet Pickins Furniture)

19 The Garbage Bag Trick

The Garbage Bag Trick: If you’ve ever had to strip a piece of furniture, with layer upon layer of paint, you know it can be a beast of a job. Half way through, when your hands are numb from scrapping, you just want to give up. Well I have the tip of all tips. This will change your furniture refinishing life. (via 2 Little Superheroes)

20 Clean brushes with a golf club brush

Clean brushes with a golf club brush: These pro secrets about the best way to use and care for your paintbrushes and paint rollers will make any paint job around the house easier, neater and give you beautiful results. (via The Family Handyman)

21 Paint-Pan Liner

Paint-Pan Liner: Painting need not be an exhaustive and messy job. Try these tips before you start your next brush job. (via Martha Stewart)

22 Before painting metal, wipe it down with vinegar

Before painting metal, wipe it down with vinegar: Before painting galvanized metal or concrete, wipe down the object or surface with vinegar, using a sponge or lint-free cloth. This little trick will help your paint job last longer. (via This Old House)

23 Painting without the Fumes

Painting without the Fumes (via do it yourself divas)

24 Precision Q-tips are your friend

Precision Q-tips are your friend: Painting tricks for windows and the trim around them is no fun – here are a few tips and tricks that will make the job easier | In My Own Style (via In My Own Style)

25 Spray Painting Tent

Spray Painting Tent: Crafty Nest shares practical, inexpensive, and pretty DIY home decorating crafts and ideas. Many of the do-it-yourself projects include salvaged, green, or recycled materials. (via Crafty Nest)

26 For less mess, spray paint an item inside of a cardboard box

For less mess, spray paint an item inside of a cardboard box: Fast and affordable decorating idea showing you how to update a brass light fixture | In My Own Style (via In My Own Style)

27 Need to take a break or waiting for paint to dry

Need to take a break or waiting for paint to dry: I love PAINT! Whether it be regular paint, spray paint, or craft paint, paint can dramatically change and transform any room or piece of furniture. With my many painting endeavors, I have learned a few TIPS + TRICKS along the way, and now I want to share them with YOU! TIP 1 There is never (via Jenna Burger)

28 Trim off ragged roller edges

Paint Calculator: Painting need not be an exhaustive and messy job. Try these tips before you start your next brush job. (via Martha Stewart)

29 Paint Calculator

How to Paint Furniture: How to paint furniture without using a spray gun. Benjamin Moore metal and wood paint (via Just a Girl Blog)

30 How to Paint Furniture

Trick to Avoiding Roller Marks When Painting: I just figured out how to stop getting roller marks and streaks, which has been driving me crazy this week. Here’s the tip on what you can do to reduce (via Painted Furniture Ideas)

31 Trick to Avoiding Roller Marks When Painting

32 Paint Saving Roller Trick

Paint Saving Roller Trick (via Mad in Crafts)

33 Using Painters Tape

Using Painters Tape (via Yahoo Lifestyle)

34 How to Paint over Existing Oil Paint

How to Paint over Existing Oil Paint: When repainting in an old home, you may need to take special steps to ensure that the old paint won’t bleed through or blend with the new paint. Determine the type of paint previously used. Water/latex based paint will come off when rubbed… (via wikiHow)

35 Label It

Label It: Five ways to make sure you don’t waste time, energy, or paint. (via Real Simple)

36 Fix uneven baseboards with caulk

Fix uneven baseboards with caulk (via The Creative Imperative)

37 Revive Old Paintbrushes using Vinegar

Revive Old Paintbrushes using Vinegar: Soak gunked-up nylon brushes in hot vinegar for up to 30 minutes to remove paint and soften the bristles. Afterward, wash them in hot, soapy water, brushing off paint as needed, then rinse and let dry good as new. (via This Old House)

38 Use Wide Tape and Plastic to Protect Doors and Windows

Use Wide Tape and Plastic to Protect Doors and Windows: Protect against spills, splatters and other disasters (via The Family Handyman)

39 Stop Buying New Paint Liners

Stop Buying New Paint Liners: I love PAINT! Whether it be regular paint, spray paint, or craft paint, paint can dramatically change and transform any room or piece of furniture. With my many painting endeavors, I have learned a few TIPS + TRICKS along the way, and now I want to share them with YOU! TIP 1 There is never (via Jenna Burger)

40 Paint Color Reminder

Paint Color Reminder: Painting need not be an exhaustive and messy job. Try these tips before you start your next brush job. (via Martha Stewart)

41 Elevate, Then Paint

Elevate, Then Paint: Protect against spills, splatters and other disasters (via The Family Handyman)

42 Old Bottle Paint Cans

Old Bottle Paint Cans: Painting need not be an exhaustive and messy job. Try these tips before you start your next brush job. (via Martha Stewart)

43 Painting Perfect Lines

Painting Perfect Lines (via House of Hepworths)

44 Remove the tape at an angle to assure a clean line

Remove the tape at an angle to assure a clean line: PB & Jstories | The Home DIY Blog Where paint, sawdust, and design go together like PB &J (via PBJstories)

45 Cardboard Corners Make Drop Cloth Folding Easier

Cardboard Corners Make Drop Cloth Folding Easier: This has to be one of the most clever painting tips ever– making it so easy to fold your drop cloth. (via The Home Depot Blog)

46 To get an antique look, rub a candle over the wood