Comments on: Painting Tips for Saving Money and Energy by Christine Gates http://www.homemaking911.com/2008/05/24/painting-tips-for-saving-money-and-energy-by-christine-gates/ Help is on the way! Sun, 01 Aug 2010 05:26:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: elaine http://www.homemaking911.com/2008/05/24/painting-tips-for-saving-money-and-energy-by-christine-gates/comment-page-1/#comment-2339 elaine Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:53:51 +0000 http://www.homemaking911.com/2008/05/24/painting-tips-for-saving-money-and-energy-by-christine-gates/#comment-2339 the color red requires: 1. gray tinted primer! to us lay people it seems like a dark color but it is in reality one of the sheerest colors - paint all day and it won't come out right unless you use this dark primer. 2. the highest quality paint you can afford. buy a cheap red and you won't be happy with it. also, if you are painting different sections different colors and don't want "bleeding" to be a problem, either use FROG tape (it's green as opposed to usual blue) or seal the blue tape with thin bead of caulk. we used caulk method for painting upper 2/3 of our sons' walls red and the lower portion light gray - absolutely no bleeding or feathering! the color red requires:

1. gray tinted primer! to us lay people it seems like a dark color but it is in reality one of the sheerest colors - paint all day and it won’t come out right unless you use this dark primer.

2. the highest quality paint you can afford. buy a cheap red and you won’t be happy with it.

also, if you are painting different sections different colors and don’t want “bleeding” to be a problem, either use FROG tape (it’s green as opposed to usual blue) or seal the blue tape with thin bead of caulk. we used caulk method for painting upper 2/3 of our sons’ walls red and the lower portion light gray - absolutely no bleeding or feathering!

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