Saturday & Sunday we are having a Painting Party to get the place ready to move in next Monday (eek)!   If you would like to join the fun, please come over at any time Saturday or Sunday.  Thanks to all who are already planning on coming!

While doing some paint related research, I came across these helpful hints from Thisoldhouse.com:

– One gallon of paint covers about 400 square feet

– Pros always work with “wet edges.” Pro’s roll walls before the areas where they’ve cut in—or painted with a brush along the wall’s perimeter edges—have dried.  It’s best to have one person cutting in and another rolling walls right behind her to avoid ‘banding’ around the edges of a room.

– To trap sanding dust on trim tack cloth—essentially, cheesecloth embedded with sticky resin—over it. But it’s also a good idea on walls. “I wrap tack cloth over the head of my pole sander and run it over the wall surfaces to pick up the dust,” says John Dee, a painting and decorating contractor based in Concord, Massachusetts.

Do you have any helpful hints??