Wanderings – The problem with wide paint brushes

One of the never ending jobs in our home is painting trim. When we first bought our house 19 years ago, I made it a goal to replace the trim around the doors, windows, and floor as we renovated each room. When a room was somewhat completed, the trim was installed – but there was a problem. I used pre-primed trim and never got around to painting the final coats to finish it off. Now I have to crawl around painting the final two coats of trim paint to finish each room. Painting this trim is a pain, in part because of technique. I chose a really wide brush to get this job done that I really didn’t want to do in the first place, and I wanted to get it done sooner. But there is a problem: the wide brush.

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