Painting can be a fun, even calming, task that a whole family can get involved in, but it can also be a complete nightmare if luck isn't on your side.
From paint splatters on your floor to uneven finishes, there's plenty of things that can go wrong when giving a wall a fresh lick of paint. And as well as being messy, painting can be time consuming, requiring a good amount of taping to make sure you aren't painting over edges.
However, as reported by the Mirror, there are other ways to paint that don't involve as much time and effort. For example, one DIY expert posting under the username @my_neutral_place showed how easy it is to use a piece of card instead of tape.
Captioning the post, the woman, named Mel, wrote: "I've been painting today so thought I'd share my favourite time-saving tips! No masking tape required!"
While painting her skirting boards, Mel slid a piece of card underneath the wood so paint would catch onto the paper rather than her wooden floorboards.
Then she placed the card alongside a wall's edge to make sure no excess paint would go on the parallel wall - a method usually requiring masking tape.
Finally, she used a piece of card to paint a door's edge. Instead of using tape, she used the white card sheet as a border against the door frame so that she could paint it without worrying about getting splodges on the wall.
The clip received 1.3 million views as well as thousands of likes from impressed TikTok users. Some took to the comments to share their thoughts about the hack.
Taking to the comment section, one person said: "Love this hack so much easier."
"Life hack of the year," another user wrote while a different commenter suggested an alternative method: "I've used cereal boxes."
A fourth added: "I learnt that trick years ago it makes it so easy."
Do you know any good painting hacks? Let us know in the comments.
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