I'm presently painting the walls in my hall .There is a dado rail
right round and The dado and door surrounds and skirting is a green
eggshell. Below the dado is lining paper in Matt emulsion in a pale
green .Above the dado is white matt emulsion .The doors will probably
be white eggshell as well.

I was toying with the idea of painting the upper part of the wall that
faces you as you come in the outside door the same colour as the rest
is below ...just to break things up a bit .

I did something similar in a bedroom but I seem to remember getting
the join right was a bit of a nightmare .
Any tips for getting the 2 joins straight?

wrote:

Any tips for getting the 2 joins straight?

Masking tape.

--
Cheers,

John.

/================================================== ===============\
| Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
| John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk |
\================================================= ================/

"John Rumm" wrote in message
...
wrote:

Any tips for getting the 2 joins straight?

Masking tape.

--
Cheers,

John.

Good idea, but have you ever known a house with a perfectly flat and square
wall ! Sometimes the paint does go behind the tape and it ends up looking
terrible.

On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:41:11 +0000, fictitiousemail wrote:

I'm presently painting the walls in my hall .There is a dado rail
right round and The dado and door surrounds and skirting is a green
eggshell. Below the dado is lining paper in Matt emulsion in a pale
green .Above the dado is white matt emulsion .The doors will probably
be white eggshell as well.

I was toying with the idea of painting the upper part of the wall that
faces you as you come in the outside door the same colour as the rest
is below ...just to break things up a bit .

I did something similar in a bedroom but I seem to remember getting
the join right was a bit of a nightmare .
Any tips for getting the 2 joins straight?

=========================================
You can get a roller with a built-in edging tool to produce straight
lines. I can't find a source (and it's too wet and windy to go searching
in the shed) so you'll have to look in the usual sheds and possibly places
on TV like QVC.

Cic.

--
==========================================
Using Ubuntu Linux
Windows shown the door
==========================================

On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:14:01 -0000, "Appollo"
wrote:


"John Rumm" wrote in message
...
wrote:

Any tips for getting the 2 joins straight?

Masking tape.

--
Cheers,

John.

Good idea, but have you ever known a house with a perfectly flat and square
wall ! Sometimes the paint does go behind the tape and it ends up looking
terrible.


I've a funny feeling I used tape in the bedroom and it was,as you
say,terrible so I think I did it freehand it looks not bad

On 23 Nov, 18:41, wrote:
I'm presently painting the walls in my hall .There is a dado rail
right round and The dado and door surrounds and skirting is a green
eggshell. Below the dado is lining paper in Matt emulsion in a pale
green .Above the dado is white matt emulsion .The doors will probably
be white eggshell as well.

I was toying with the idea of painting the upper part of the wall that
faces you as you come in the outside door the same colour as the rest
is below ...just to break things up a bit .

I did something similar in a bedroom but I seem to remember getting
the join right was a bit of a nightmare .
Any tips for getting the 2 joins straight?

I've got differing colours on adjoining walls in one room and did it
by hand - as you say "mechanical" devices are set up for straight
edges and perfection.
I used a smaller brush than for the rest of the walls, but apart from
that you should find it works fine.

Appollo wrote:

"John Rumm" wrote in message
...
wrote:

Any tips for getting the 2 joins straight?

Masking tape.

--
Cheers,

John.

Good idea, but have you ever known a house with a perfectly flat and square
wall ! Sometimes the paint does go behind the tape and it ends up looking
terrible.

Use masking tape to edge the lighter colour, and to get a good smooth
line without wobbles. Try not to let the paint bleed under, but don't
worry if it does a little. Peel off tape early, to leave a step edge,
but allow plenty of time for paint to dry hard. If any paint did bleed
under the tape, carefully scrape it off to restore a clean edge line.

Paint the darker colour up to that edge, starting with a 10mm flat
artist's brush for the best possible control - far better than any
decorating brush. Then broaden out that narrow band with a paintbrush in
the usual way, and finally switch to the roller.

It takes a bit more time, but the results are pretty darn good. (There's
an example right before my eyes where I sit at the computer, and if it
didn't look perfect it would drive me crazy.)


--
Ian White

Appollo wrote:
"John Rumm" wrote in message
...
wrote:

Any tips for getting the 2 joins straight?

Masking tape.

--
Cheers,

John.

Good idea, but have you ever known a house with a perfectly flat and square
wall ! Sometimes the paint does go behind the tape and it ends up looking
terrible.

Neither is much of a problem. Masking tape is crepe paper so that it
can bend. Paint runs can be kept to a minimum and touched up by hand
afterards. Ye its slower than all 1 colour, but not difficult.


NT

On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:19:37 GMT
Cicero wrote:
====
You can get a roller with a built-in edging tool to produce straight
lines. I can't find a source (and it's too wet and windy to go searching
in the shed) so you'll have to look in the usual sheds and possibly places
on TV like QVC.

Cic.

I have one, it's useless. Whatever you do paint gets in the wrong
place and ruins things. Freehand with a soft brush upto a masked line
of the first colour is best. (IMO)

R.

wrote in message
...
I'm presently painting the walls in my hall .There is a dado rail
right round and The dado and door surrounds and skirting is a green
eggshell. Below the dado is lining paper in Matt emulsion in a pale
green .Above the dado is white matt emulsion .The doors will probably
be white eggshell as well.

I was toying with the idea of painting the upper part of the wall that
faces you as you come in the outside door the same colour as the rest
is below ...just to break things up a bit .

I did something similar in a bedroom but I seem to remember getting
the join right was a bit of a nightmare .
Any tips for getting the 2 joins straight?


Cut a plastic bottle into a square, by taking the top and bottom off and
cutting right through. Open it flat and use it as a straight edge. Slide
the brush and plastic sheet together down / up the corner and it stops the
paint from going where you don't want it to. It's also easy to wash the
emulsion paint off it and use again.

Oh, and it's a very cheap form of paint masking.

BigWallop wrote:
wrote in message
...
I'm presently painting the walls in my hall .There is a dado rail
right round and The dado and door surrounds and skirting is a green
eggshell. Below the dado is lining paper in Matt emulsion in a pale
green .Above the dado is white matt emulsion .The doors will probably
be white eggshell as well.

I was toying with the idea of painting the upper part of the wall that
faces you as you come in the outside door the same colour as the rest
is below ...just to break things up a bit .

I did something similar in a bedroom but I seem to remember getting
the join right was a bit of a nightmare .
Any tips for getting the 2 joins straight?


Cut a plastic bottle into a square, by taking the top and bottom off and
cutting right through. Open it flat and use it as a straight edge. Slide
the brush and plastic sheet together down / up the corner and it stops the
paint from going where you don't want it to. It's also easy to wash the
emulsion paint off it and use again.

Oh, and it's a very cheap form of paint masking.


IME it's bloody impossible without planting a bead or something in the
corner. If nothing's straight you have to introduce something that is.

Anyway, multi coloured rooms remind me of the 50s and "making do". If
only one wall needed painting, that's all you did.