How To Paint Trim Around Doors And Windows

Mix the primer and pour a small amount into a paint tray.

How to paint trim around doors and windows.

The edger keeps paint off the trim and this video shows you how to use one. This room is so bright it s hard to take pictures of because the brightness distorts what the colors look like in real life. If wood or spackling is showing through after drying apply a second coat. Using a trim guard while painting around doors and windows helps protect woodwork.

Mask off wall around window trim. If you look at the pic above all of that trim around the windows door floorboards and crown molding is bright yellow. Paint the window trim. I ve found that trim such as baseboards and molding around doors usually just need to be brushed anyway and not rolled.

Run a strip of masking tape about 4 inches longer than the trim you are masking. A 2 5 to 3 inch angled sash brush is generally all you need but if you have a lot of wide trim you may want a 4 inch square brush a pad or even a mini roller. Step 2 using your brush cut in along the edge where the roofline and the fascia meet and or where the wall and the. Now run another strip of the perpendicular trim making sure that the two ends overlap.

This combination can be said to be a neutral one since both colors used in it are neutral. Allow to dry for 24 hours. The next door and trim combination has white color for the door and wooden color for the trim. Choose a semigloss or high gloss alkyd based paint for doors which get a lot of use and abuse.

Step 3 starting at an upper corner use your. Don t waste your time with masking tape or freehanding cut in lines. This wood should be painted last after the front facing surfaces of the window frame and the sash and trim have been painted. The fascia step 1 begin your painting project by pouring thoroughly mixed paint into a bucket and dipping a quality 2 2 wide.

Latex enamel also holds up well. The window trim is the roughly inch 1 3 cm deep lip perpendicular to the glass window pane that surrounds the wooden window frame. Paint the trim from top to bottom. And the wood walls are far less orange than they appear in these pics too.

Apply to the wall. Anytime you re painting something a general rule of thumb is to brush all the places that need to be painted with the paintbrush first rather than rolling first. Use the side of the tray to remove excess primer from the brush to avoid drips. However we will not discuss how this door and trim combination goes well with any color scheme although this idea is possible to be applied.

Dip no more than 1 inch of the angled brush into the primer.