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ChadTower:


--- Quote from: shardian on February 13, 2008, 04:33:13 pm ---If you press to hard or try to conserve paint, you will end up with bad coverage and roller strokes. Sometimes I feel like beating my wife with the roller when she tries to cover walls with an empty brush to keep from making a return trip to the paint pan.

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I keep hearing people say that their wife/mother/sister/aunt has been seen painting.  I have yet to witness this phenomenon.  When my wife ever wants something painted she says she cannot do it and nags me until I do it.  Same with my mother.  My mother in law did zero of the entire house repaint they just did.  There is always some "reason" they can't.

I just can't believe everything I read on the innernets.



Level42:

My wife paints usualy.

But I made the big mistake of painting the inside of my Galaxian black (and the top inner parts white) and now she says I'm better at it then she is.......damn stupid me !

Afterburner:

Hehe...both my wife and mother-in-law are artists.  My MIL is professional and earns her living doing murals, etc.

My wife has done some lucrative side projects painting murals, etc.

But for that ultra-smooth, flawless finish, I do that painting.

One of these days I keep meaning to get my wife to paint some arcade artwork on my cab.

Another tip.....a good paint should run together just enough for the brush strokes to disappear.  Unfortunately, a lot of the paint companies make their paint extra thick for that "one coat" coverage.  Thin it out a little bit until the brush strokes disappear after a minute or so.  Then you'll have it about right.

shardian:


--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 13, 2008, 04:36:28 pm ---I keep hearing people say that their wife/mother/sister/aunt has been seen painting.  I have yet to witness this phenomenon.  When my wife ever wants something painted she says she cannot do it and nags me until I do it.  Same with my mother.  My mother in law did zero of the entire house repaint they just did.  There is always some "reason" they can't.

I just can't believe everything I read on the innernets.

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Yeah my wife paints and does a decent job. I keep an eye on her though. Funny story on that:
We were painting the basement 2 weeks ago and while painting the ceiling we had to work around the can lights. I had them pulled down as far as the baffle allows and she smacked the hell out of one with the roller. I got onto her and started to show her how to do it right. As I was showing her, I slipped and got paint on the baffle. She was on me like white on rice. Of course, I did it just to make her feel better you know... ;D

ChadTower:


Meh.  My wife always says it bothers her asthma to paint (not that she has ever tried).  Her brother and father have the same asthma, both worse, and do it all the time.  I have to strip the wallpaper in our bathroom in the very near future and I'd put serious dollars on her saying it again were I a betting man.

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