Lee Wallender is a home improvement writer of nearly 20 years and specializes in home remodeling, repair and maintenance. Sami Allen is the managing editor at Forbes Home, with over seven years of ...

Danny Lipford: An e-mail from Scott asked, “Can I successfully paint plastic items on the exterior of my home?” There are a lot of things that are plastic around our house these days, like our ...

Use a 3/8-in. nap roller to paint the ceiling from one end of the room to the other. Roll the paint on in the same direction, one roller width at a time, overlapping the previous row. If a second coat ...

vinyl/plastic dye also works well, I find it typically goes on a lot thinner and doesn't obscure details or graining. Krylon fusion is a normal paint which is fomulated to adhere better to different ...