Anyone can paint, right?
“You can do it we can help” proclaims convincingly our favourite Big Box store.
There are so many do it yourself articles, television shows, advice is everywhere.
The latest and greatest gadgets come along to solve the biggest fear the DIYer has, the fear of crooked lines.
Colourful masking tapes, green, lime green, white, lilac, blue, they all promise to help create straight lines.
A professional painter is supposed to cut-in straight lines free hand. The skills required for an experienced painter are many.
But there is no other single skill that will make or break an otherwise good paint job, more than the skill of painting straight lines freehand.

The above picture is from a North Toronto House Painting project completed by Ecopainting Inc.