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Summary: Learn how to clean up after painting your living room in this free DIY home remodeling video.
Grady Johnson is a master painter with over twenty five years of painting experience. He has worked in the industrial, new construction, and remodel painting fields. He started as an...read more
"Hello my name is Grady Johnson and I'm a professional painter and today I'm representing expertvillage.com. Okay we got this room completely painted now we did the ceilings, the walls, the base, the trim and it looks fantastic it is a new room. So what we are going to do now is put everything back. Now what I have done first is I have gone along and removed all the tape from my fire place. I went ahead and put all the plates back up on the face plates and switch plates and I'm ready to start moving in my furniture. Now a little one of this is pretty obvious move the furniture back where you want it, rearrange it if you like a different design and then hang up your pictures. This is a great opportunity to try a whole new way to make your living room look or if you just like the way that it look before and and you just want new walls put it back exactly the same way you want it. After all it is your living room. I have got my drop cloths out to the way while I was working so I would have some room to work. This plastic has been here through the whole job. I like to recycle plastic, this plastic is two mill thick and you can use it over and over again. All you got to do is go ahead and fold it up right so when you pull it off you want to grab the corners and pull into itself so all the junk on the plastic is on the inside. So curve it into itself so all of that stuff that lays on there would fold up in to inside of it and does not get you know all over the place. Pull that off and get it off of the wood so none of the little dried up flakes would fall on your surface. Now another thing that I recommend before you start really to move furniture sweep up a little bit around here. I have done that a little bit already, pick up the excess paint chips and on wooden floors like this you might fine a little drip or two just take a little scrubby and go around and kind of scrub it out with your foot and clean that up. Well I'm going to go ahead and put this out of the way and grab this picture off here and figure out where I want to put it. But these are all the thing you need to do whenever you are putting this room back together."
eHow Article: Replacing the Furniture in a Living Room