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Use these valuable painting tips for your painting business or for your own home improvement projects. These are the little things that make a big difference in making your painting projects look their best. Most are severely overlooked by the general do-it-yourself homeowner.

1. Use Quality Paint - always use quality paint for your walls and woodwork. As a professional painter, I know the difference between using a great product vs. an average one. Never waste your labor on cheap paint. For example, good quality enamels will outshine the cheap ones for walls and woodwork. You can see the difference.

2. Buy Some Painting Tools - never be afraid of buying quality painting tools. After all, how else are you going to get the job done? Good painting tools will last a lifetime or the lifetime of your home even!

3. Prepping Between Coats - most people hate prep work. It is because they don't know where to begin or to end. I will finish a ceiling, add one coat of paint or primer to the walls and add a primer coat to the woodwork before I go and fill any holes or cracks. Why? Because now you can see them all really good. There is no guesswork!

4. Use Color Paint Brochures For Interior/Exterior Color Coordinating - always use them, especially the exterior ones. Why? Because if you ever drive by certain homes you will see goofy houses with things like purple doors, odd colors on shutters and/or colors on houses that just don't look normal.

5. White Ceilings - picture a living room or bedroom with a nice soft, flat white ceiling and a nice color on the walls. For living rooms, bedrooms, dinning rooms and hallways you want a dead flat finish on the ceiling.

6. Paint With Fluorescent Light - when it comes to interior painting nothing beats natural sunlight. But on cloudy days you need extra light. I like to buy the $12 shop lights that have a cord and plug.

7. Filtering Your Paint - when you are painting and putting unused paint back in the can you will be surprised by how many contaminants can get into the paint.

You will be surprised how much smoother your new woodwork paint job will feel as you run your hand over it by doing simple things like filtering your paints and primers before painting.

Please visit Painting Groups Adelaide for some free valuable painting tips and painting ideas.

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