Painting small areas
These tend to be the fiddly woodwork on windows, around doors and lengths of stairs or skirting boards — and the hardest bit about all of them is working out how much paint you’ll need . Special shaped or narrow brushes can make painting these areas easier — for example, they prevent you ‘straddling’ angles in wood (like you find on mouldings) which damages the bristles in the middle of the brush.
With windows and panelled doors you should also follow an order of working to avoid causing overlap marks on the parts you’ve already painted. Fiddly or not, they are the jobs you have to do first if you are putting up wallcoverings (if you’re painting a room, the walls should be done before the woodwork) so that the drops can be placed against finished edges. If you want to touch up the paint without changing the wallpaper, it’s best to use a paint shield.