Paint Clean-up Trick

I have several projects that I was wanting to finish up before Thanksgiving, though, at this point, it’s not looking good. We have so many activities going on, I’m finding them hard to get to. I did get started on repainting the upstairs bath this weekend, however. I realized as I was putting the ceiling paint away that I always to one trick that not everyone may know about. Before I put the lid back on the paint, I take a nail and hammer holes all around the edge. This allows the paint to drip back into the can rather than drying into a big congealed mess and glueing the lid to the can. I usually use larger nails than the one in the picture, but that’s what was in the “junk drawer” this time. Anything will work, really.

Isn’t that a pretty color? It called Gulf Winds by Behr. I’ll add some photos of the bathroom re-do in coming days. Maybe that’ll help keep me moving! I’m basing the bathroom colors on the shower curtain below (Reflections from Bed, Bath & Beyond). It doesn’t look like it, but the blue matches the blue in the curtain. It’s not as powder blue as the shot below makes it look.

Back to the paint . . . you can see below where the paint is dripping from the holes into the can. Works like a charm!

Linking up to Tackle it Tuesday & Works for Me Wednesday.

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November 15, 2011 | Filed Under Homemaking

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One Response to “Paint Clean-up Trick”

Julie Bagamary on November 16th, 2011 11:57 am

Good idea. Is the paint can still sealed well?

Dena says: Oh, absolutely! The hole is on the inside so it doesn’t let air in. It just lets the trapped paint drip into the pan instead of sitting in the well. It’s actually probably sealed better since you can get a tight fit as opposed to the lid sitting on top of a bunch of dried paint.