It’s common knowledge that precision painting requires the use of masking tape to prevent wide strokes and disobedient drops from seeping onto carpet, molding, and other fixtures.
Painter’s tape is a specialized variety of masking tape specifically designed to achieve that goal while leaving as little adhesive residue as possible. Standard masking tape may allow paint to bleed through, resulting in fuzzy lines, but a proper grade of painter’s tape results in a clean, sharp line.
You can use that precision to create crisp designs like solid stripes, zig-zags, chevrons, or any other shape you choose. Besides the unexpected visual variety created by the shapes, this also allows you to coordinate and contrast colors.
With some creative cutting, you can make all kinds of effects: stars on the ceiling to replicate the clear Colorado skies over Denver, geometric shapes to add an educational flair to a preschooler’s bedroom, or silhouettes of objects that symbolize your business.
However you choose to spice up your painting project, remember that room temperature is an important consideration when using painter’s tape. Too cold and your tape may be subject to cracking, too hot and the adhesive will become gummier and leave adhesive residue behind – but a quick blast of WD-40 will clear that up.
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