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Painting The Chair Rail
Tonight I started painting the chair rail. I like to use Sherwin Williams Semi-Gloss paint. One tip that I learned from a painter years ago really applies to painting this chair rail. When ever you paint trim work, casing, crown molding, chair rails, etc, it’s best to paint the trim work first. When you paint the trim work it’s ok to let the paint overlap onto the adjacent wall. What this does is it applies a nice coat of semi-gloss paint at the junction between the trim work and wall. When you paint the wall and cut in the wall color it’s much easier to run a steady stroke of paint along the freshly painted wall. Next time you paint trim work try it out! My plan is to get the chair rail finished this week after work so this weekend I can paint the walls.
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You know, my wife and I just painted our dining room, and every room I paint I’ve always painted the walls first! This seems so obvious now that you say it. I guess everyone just views the trim as the “finishing touches” and so like most finishes, we put them off until the end. Very good tip; Mind if I pass along the tip on my blog as long as I give you the credit?
Fred
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Fred,
By all means share away. I write my blog to help others out. We all learn from each other. I used to be the same way, walls first followed by trim. When we built our new home I used this technique and it makes a huge difference.
That is a great tip I recommend other people do the same. If you’re repainting a rail be sure to thoroughly prepare the surface by sanding beforehand.
–Mark, a Maple Grove Painter in the MN Painters Network