How do i paint close to the ceiling and make it look neat?

Question

I am decorating my Bedroom soon, and i was wondering how i can paint close to the ceiling and dado-rail, and around doors etc. and make it look neat and tidy? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Use painters tape. It will stick to the walls, but not peel the paint when you take it off. Or check with your local paint shop or hardware store, they have these little brush things that are flat with one side covered in a soft material...you dip that side in the paint and you can pain right up to the edges without it crossing the lines. We used them to paint my room and they're great.

Answer 2

You can use a very very stiff small artist brush and get right on the line with that. Make sure you buy a good stiff brush, not a flimbsy one.

I started painting years ago and it was such a disappointment that i couldnt seem to get a really perfect line along the ceiling and wall.

I went to that stiff artist brush its about 1/4 inch wide with a pencil type handle and I, a person with even a shaky hand can make a perfect line at the ceiling and around the windows and door, keeping paint off even the varnished surfaces. Those guides are no good they are a mess to keep clean and do not paint close enough. .

Sure it takes time, but in the end it looks better than even a professional painter can do.

Answer 3

You can use a product found at Home Depo that is made by a company named Shur-Line. Its a trim and edge painting device that I have used that works pretty good. Its only about $3.00 and the replacement pads are fairly reasonable in price as well. I'm not sure but you may be able to look them up on line and find what I'm talking about or go to your local home depo and ask someone in the paint department where they are. This company has several painting aids as I recall. This way is much faster then taping everything off as you can also use it around all your trim. Happy painting

Answer 4

all paint stores /hardware places have "painters tape". run it along the edge you don't wait to paint. the tape will come off without residue or ripping the old paint as it is desigened to be applied and removed. dont use masking tape it is not the same thing and will damage your ceiling.

also edge the top and bottom of the walls, around door frames etc carefully with an edger brush (it is smaller) to keep it neat. this way you are painting nearly all the way with the roller without smearing paint on the ceiling by rolling it to the very top.

ask the paint shop for more tips but this worked for me to keep blue paint off the white ceiling.

Answer 5

I would tape off any thing around doors and windows and such. As far as the ceiling, it is how you hold the brush. You have to hold it at an angle and move across small sections at a time and have a steady hand. You can go to your paint store and they should be able to show you. Then you fill in the wall part with a roller.

Answer 6

Well--you can tape before painting with green or blue masking tape. Or you can rely on your steady hand and a good quality brush... Another trick is to tape an edge a half inch or so out from the offending corner (either wall meeting wall or wall meeting ceiling etc) and paint. It leaves a straighter, more reliable edge than right in the "crotch" of a corner.

Answer 7

At paint stores/departments, you can get this little device that is flat with a brush like surface and on one edge are little rollers. So you dip the flat surface in the paint, then press onto the wall with the rollers on the ceiling and then just roll along the edge and voila, a clean straight line! I used one with ease. Hope you can find one too!

Answer 8

Using painters tape, tape up the edges where you do not want paint, also they sell what in my area are called egde painters. they are made especially to paint edges meeting together, like ceilings, or corners or around woodwork.
Also if painting tape is to expensive I have had good luck using masking tape.

Answer 9

Stick tape were u don't want to paint and then just peel it of. It is really easy!!!