When Chris saw these pictures as I was putting together this post, he immediately demanded that I make some of these for him, so we’ll be having baked tacos again this week!
This probably took the longest of anything, but was totally necessary.I had a couple of good non-disposable angled brushes on hand that I switched out and cleaned up if they started to seem like the paint was drying on them too much.
I’ll share my super-easy paint brush cleaning technique with you next week.Oh, you just wait!.I saved a good 5 minutes per coat with a little technique I called the “beadboard rule of thirds”.
At least that’s what I called it to myself in my head while I was doing it.I basically only painted one third of each board at a time, rather than trying to make the paint on my brush spread out over as much of the board as possible, I just filled my brush, put a few dabs down the center on just 1/3 of the board, used what was left on the brush to do the edges and then came back to the center.
And repeat for the remaining 2 sections of the board.. OK, you think I’m a little nuts right now for telling you all that.
It’s just slapping some paint on some boards.I learned a long time ago that caulking is your best friend for filling gaps and covering up mistakes, especially in an old house like ours where nothing is square.
I thought I knew what I was doing when I started, but I found quite a few little things that made the job easier and look a lot better in the end.So I thought I’d share!.
First of all, there are two ways that you can do your caulking: before painting and finishing, and afterwards.Since I’d already done my painting and was just trying to cover up the yucky bits, I chose this silicone because I liked how it said “permanently WATERPROOF”.