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How To Do Your Own Painting and Wallpapering
How To Do Your Own Painting and Wallpapering Author:Jackson Hand Whether you want to pain, finish floors, hang wallpaper, you'll find an effective, easily-understood technique for it in this book. There are tips on paint, floor finishes, equipment, too. How to select the right paint, including pros and cons of latex, when to use oil base, how to pick a primer, select the best floor finish. How to prepare the ... more »surface--seal knots, fill cracks, how to handle new wood, metal, masonry. Complete information on how to apply every kind of paint to every kind of surface with every kind of applicator. There are separate sections on painting exteriors, interiors, finishing floors. On wallpapering, you get detailed step-by-step instructions--how to condition the wall, cut, match, paste, cope with corners, get the paper on straight. And there's a big, valuable section on color. More than 150 show-how illustrations.« less