Once you add on those cute candy eyes, they magically become adorable.

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!.

Tip #4: Semi-gloss paint will make you happy.I usually have smaller gloves around, but I ran out, so I ended up using my finger anyway.

The other thing wrong with this approach (2) is that it didn’t end up looking so great for an after paint job kind of finish.Especially not when you’re on the boarder of two different colors.

There was kind of a lightly blended shiny white line instead of a nice crisp clean line.I took the same approach as I usually take when I do something like a bath tub and I taped off where I wanted my line to end.