How to Paint a Room: What Your Mother Never Told You

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Uwe Keim — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 06:23:00 GMT

Cool descriptions! How about adding some photos of your past work? some kind of "image gallery" ;-)

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Steven's [Mostly] Tech Notebook — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:04:00 GMT

I know, I haven't written as much recently.

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re: How to Paint a Room: What Your Mother Never Told You

John Montgomery — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 05:41:00 GMT

If I were to post things, you'd look at them and say, "Gee, there are a bunch of painted walls." :-)

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pj — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 02:31:00 GMT

seems like you know what you are doing!! I just painted my itchen and have dropped some paint on the chair rail wood. i wiped it of course and it smeared. Now it looks whiteish looking. what product will remove the paint off the wood work. thanks for any help

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John Montgomery — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 04:14:00 GMT

Looks can be deceiving. :-) However, I'd recommend you try a few things. Step 1, I'd try Goo Gone, which you should be able to find at Home Depot, Staples, a local hardware story, and even maybe your local drugstore. It's basically a citrus-based solvent. It smells kind of like orange juice, and isn't very powerful, but I've found it will loosen uncured (i.e. hard, but not totally hard) latex and oil paint even 72 hours after a mess. YSpritz it on and leave it for a few minutes (really -- it takes time to soften the substance) and it may loosen the paint. Rub hard with a clean rag. If that doesn't work, I'd move on to a much, much more powerful chemical, Goof Off (which is basically Xylene), which you can get at Home Depot for sure. Goof Off will remove anything from anything, including the finish from your floors, chair rails, automobiles, and teeth. (Just kidding about the teeth.) I keep both chemicals around the house and find myself using them for all sorts of problems, always moving from Goof Off to Goo Gone. But be wary of Goo Gone, since it will ruin many finishes lightning fast.

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bonita — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:07:00 GMT

I decided to follow your instructions on how to paint a room and went today to pick out a primer. They have water-based and oil-based primers. Which should I use?

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