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Video: How to Remove Wallpaper Easily

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How to Remove Wallpaper Easily Video Demo

Removing wallpaper can be a messy task if you are looking to update a room in your house.  However, it’s not that hard or time consuming if you know what to do.  If your plan is to then paint the room, you need to ensure that all remaining glue and paper is fully removed and then you need to prime all your walls before you start painting colour on them.  In this video, you will see a short demo on the proper technique for taking down old wallpaper.  If you can get a corner started, often you can take down the wallpaper in full sheets.  But that’s not always the case depending on the quality of the wallpaper and the length of time it’s been hanging on the walls.

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How to Cut In – Interior House Painting

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How to Cut In Around Trim and Ceilings in House Painting

One of the trickiest parts to painting a room is the cutting or edging but it doesn’t have to be.  Most DIY homeowners want to use painter’s tape to do the edging but often it causes more problems than it’s worth.  If you use the proper technique and a good brush, you can do the cutting freehand and get a beautiful finish to your room.  In the video below you can see how professional painters do the cutting around trim, ceilings and in room corners.  It’s simple to do once you know how and, you can always have a clean damp rag nearby to wipe up any mistakes you make.  As long as you clean up the mistakes right away, you shouldn’t have any problems.

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Tricks to Make a Small Room Appear Larger

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How to Make a Small Room Appear Larger

It seems like every house has that one room – that one room that is small, cramped and dark. It may be a bedroom, a bathroom or even the kitchen, but you want to do everything you can to make the most of the space available without making it over-crowded. Fortunately, there are design tricks you can use to fool the eye and make a small room appear larger. Adding the proper lighting and arranging the furniture correctly will brighten and open up the room. But you can also use a variety of paint techniques that will actually make ceilings look taller and walls appear further apart.

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Your Home Exterior Paint Colour Guide

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Choosing Exterior Paint Colours in 2015

Have you been putting off painting the exterior of your home for just a little too long? If so, now is a perfect time to get it done! Of course, before you start painting, you have to make one major decision – what colours do you want to use on your home’s exterior? The easy choice is to use the same colours you’ve already got – after all, it’s worked for this long. But you should at least consider updating the colours with a more modern palette. So let’s talk about some of the more popular colour trends for 2015.

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