From scraping to sanding to priming to painting, it’s delightful once you figure out how to avoid the pitfalls.

Take a good look at your furniture and decide if painting or staining is even worth it. Look and feel for soft or rotted spots on wood furniture, inspect plastic furniture for cracks and check metal ...

A woman painting a wooden drawer light blue with a thick paint brush outdoors - Melinda Nagy/Shutterstock Giving IKEA furniture a fresh coat of paint sounds easy enough, but the many failed DIY ...

Depending what type of material you’re painting and how it will be used, a surface like Arborite or melamine on a counter or ...

Many great IKEA hacks begin with paint. But while you may know how to paint a room and how to paint wood furniture, painting ...