House Painting (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from House Painting<br><br>This book is for two sorts of men; yes, three.<br><br>Some think they can't paint, because they have never done such a thing. The book is for them.<br><br>Now and then a man feels so cock-sure of whatever he thinks he knows, that people say "he knows it all." It is a sly way of saying "he don't know what an awful lot of things there are in the world that he don't know." There's a little in it for him.<br><br>But the bulk of Americans, painters or not, feel able to do a good-enough job with the help of a little schooling. Here's the schooling.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.