Does anybody have any good suggestions for painting a wall where it meets a popcorn textured ceiling?
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Cut in by hand and don't look right at the brush line, look 'away' from your hand or ahead a bit to cut the best straight line you can. Keep the paint down the wall a bit, away from the popcorn and things will look much straighter.
Pretty much what Waters said.
Don't try to paint completely into the wall/ceiling corner. If the ceiling color comes down on the wall a bit it looks fine. But if the wall paint gets on the ceiling at all, it looks bad.
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Yes. If it hasn't been done, take a few minutes and save yourself the aggravation. Get a sanding block with a 45 deg wedge on one side. Now lightly sand a very shallow (but straight) line all the way around the room where the wall intersects the ceiling. I'm not talking saw cut, just enough to remove a pencil width. It cleans up the edge, gives you a straight line to cut to, and looks better. The popcorn abrades off so easily it takes almost no time at all.
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Great advice! I appreciate it.
I've used a sharpened screwdriver or an awl to run a line at the wall ceiling line. It works for me.
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Sounds good.