Title: How to Master Cutting-In Painting
Headings: How to Master Cutting-In Painting
How to Master Cutting-In Painting
When and Why to Cut In
What You'll Need
Equipment / Tools
Materials
Instructions
Fill the Bucket
Load the Brush
Apply Paint to the Line
Broaden the Paint Line
Wipe up Mistakes

Content: Putting down floor cloths and removing wall switch and outlet covers can feel like wasted time, but these are unavoidable steps if you want to prevent messy accidents and achieve clean results. On the other hand, applying painter's tape alongside window and door trim, above baseboards, and below crown molding is considered optional prep work, and you may be better off skipping this masking work altogether. A painting technique often associated with professional painters and less so with DIYers promises to eliminate masking. It uses no gimmicky paint edgers, either. Involving only a steady hand and a brush, this technique is called cutting in. The practice involves using your paintbrush to manually applying straight lines of paint alongside elements that do not get painted, eliminating the need for masking tape or painter's masking film. When and Why to Cut In
Imagine that you want white trim around your windows, surrounded by darker colored walls. First, you paint the trim. Then, when you paint the walls you're faced with the challenge of bringing the darker paint right up to the edge of the trim. You could mask off the trim with tape, but if you have a steady hand, you can simply "draw" the line of colored paint, freestyle.