The $6 Amazon Find That Can Save Your Dinged-Up Painted Walls — Paint Project

In the midst of a kitchen and bath renovation in our 1890 home, I find myself uttering those four expensive words: while we're at it. Most recently it was "While we're at it, why don't we paint our dining room?"

So I asked our drywall/paint contractor to add that onto his estimate for the work in two other rooms. The total for the 225-ish square foot room? More than $1,800. (Turns out, we won't be painting the dining room while we're at it.) Now, granted, that included skimming/refinishing the awful textured ceiling, and all the door, window, and baseboard trim in the room, but still, here's my point: Professional painting is not cheap.

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