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So here’s how I always do my bookshelves.

I had a couple of good non-disposable angled brushes on hand that I switched out and cleaned up if they started to seem like the paint was drying on them too much.I’ll share my super-easy paint brush cleaning technique with you next week.

Oh, you just wait!.I saved a good 5 minutes per coat with a little technique I called the “beadboard rule of thirds”.At least that’s what I called it to myself in my head while I was doing it.

I basically only painted one third of each board at a time, rather than trying to make the paint on my brush spread out over as much of the board as possible, I just filled my brush, put a few dabs down the center on just 1/3 of the board, used what was left on the brush to do the edges and then came back to the center.And repeat for the remaining 2 sections of the board.. OK, you think I’m a little nuts right now for telling you all that.

It’s just slapping some paint on some boards.

But seriously, saving those precious seconds made all the difference between me putting off doing the job for weeks and months and actually enjoying getting it done in just a weekend!.There should be a little piercer sword that swings out of the bottom of your caulking gun for that.

Isn’t my new bath mat neat?.So here’s a little look at some of the “before” shots.

I had to remove a whole lot of wallpaper and little bits were left on the edge of the tile there.Also these old walls are in pretty rough shape, but they won’t be replaced until “bathroom reno 2.0” happens, so I thought I’d just try to make the whole thing look more presentable by covering up what I could.. Not nice.