Comments on: Spray Paint: Pros and Cons

By: Lori

Lori — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:03:54 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you! You’ve seriously changed the way I re-do. I never had the patience for regular paint and now that I’ve met Centsational Girl and Rustoleum, watch out ;)

By: Mary @ Redo101

Mary @ Redo101 — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 02:23:21 +0000

I accidentally inhaled some today and am convinced I’ve shortened my life by 20 years. Went straight to Home Depot and bought masks after that episode. Thanks for sharing tidbits on spray paint.

By: Trudy

Trudy — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 03:21:56 +0000

Thanks for such wonderful tips!

By: Laura too

Laura too — Wed, 25 May 2011 21:31:10 +0000

I know I am very late coming here, but in case it may help someone, I’d like to leave a tip for cleaning up from oil point or spray paint or the resin from pine cones. Rather than use turpentines or other harsh chemicals, you can simply put some sort of fat on your hands – crisco, butter, lard or even vegetable oil. You just smear a little on and wash your hands with your regular hand soap and it comes right off. It’s sort of amazing. I used to do a lot of work with pine cones and would keep the paper that came off of butter sticks in the fridge to grab a few of when I went out to pick or when I was crafting with them. There was enough left on the paper taken off of cold butter to work with regular hand wipes. So very much healthier than using turpentine.

And you know that turpentine is toxic (fatally so) to cats to put on them if they get paint spilled on their fur, so now you know you can just use a little bit of oil or butter and work it in, then wash and rinse well and it’s all gone and cat is healthy!!

Spread the word! Keep turpentine and chemicals off your skin, your children and your pets!

By: Rosalind

Rosalind — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:34:25 +0000

hmmm, wished I had of read this part before I started spraying! I had read your FAQ’s but missed this post. Damn nozzle – my paint is splattering!!!!!!! I will try the old pin trick to clean it but wondering if it can be saved or is a bad nozzle as good as dead?

By: Tara Odebrecht

Tara Odebrecht — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:16:45 +0000

I am sad to say I FEAR it! Not sure why…I can paint and tile and do lots of stuff, but for some reason spray paint seems scary. Now I am inspired to give it a try!

By: Debbie Cadene

Debbie Cadene — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:44:07 +0000

Great site and I am really loving your projects. I also love the DIY stuff. I have some brass door handles that DEFINITELY gotta go, so I would love to spray paint them the Oil Rubbed Bronze color. A couple of questions for you though… do they (or any metal piece) need to be spray primed first, or just directly spray painted a few times?.And can you recommend the best paint and primer (if needed) to use. I looked for the ORB color at Canadian tire yesterday, but didn’t find any…will keep looking though.

Can’t wait to paint these suckers.

By: Eileen Lewis

Eileen Lewis — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 05:46:23 +0000

Claudia mentioned a spray paint named Bosny. I am interested where to buy Bosny spray paint. I haven’t seen it anywhere in my area of Lancaster, PA.

By: The girl with kaleidoscope eyes

The girl with kaleidoscope eyes — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 00:46:34 +0000

As an environmental scientist I have to say that spray paints are extremely bad for the environment. As a result I swore off using them, and have held that promise ever since … about 8 or so years now.

You just changed my mind.

Now all I need is something to paint … the question being where to start first …

By: Lesley @ TheDesignFile

Lesley @ TheDesignFile — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 21:09:23 +0000

I’m way late to this post. I got here clicking through some of your other great spray painting tutorials and tips.

I love spray paint and your tips are fantastic. I’m just getting ready to spray paint some beds I bought for my nieces and it was great to be reminded about using several thin coats to avoid the drips!

I really do appreciate your great posts.