New How-To Paint Videos from Dunn-Edwards Provide Painting Tips from the Pros

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Jan 10, 2012, 08:23 ET

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Just in time for any New Year's resolutions about home improvement projects, Dunn-Edwards Paints has launched a series of 10 how-to videos about painting that will help ensure success for homeowners. For those planning to hire a painting contractor, they'll find topics like How to Choose Paint Colors, Selecting the Right Gloss and How to Care for Your Painted Walls & Touching-up to be helpful. And, for the do-it-yourselfers, they can learn secrets from the pros from the videos like Prepping a Room for Painting, How to Paint a Ceiling and How to Paint Moldings & Trim videos.

The painting technique videos feature professional painter Cole Schaefer, who offers insight on other topics such as How Much Paint to Buy, Why Prime? , Painting a Room, and How to Properly Dispose of Paint.

Interior designer Noelle Parks, whose designs have appeared on the prime time TV show Private Practice, is featured in the videos about color and gloss selection. "We get a lot of questions at the stores and on our Facebook page about how to choose the right color and gloss level," said Amber Jones, marketing communications manager. "It's important to consider how the space will be used as well as what colors people find appealing. Noelle conveys this, along with her design philosophy of 'beauty meets function,' to simplify the process."

Videos are posted on YouTube and the Dunn-Edwards website. The informative brochures mentioned in the videos can be found in any of the 108 Dunn-Edwards neighborhood paint stores.

About Dunn-Edwards Corporation

Dunn-Edwards has produced and sold premium paint products for over 85 years throughout the Southwest. Operating in 108 stores in California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas, Dunn-Edwards is one of the nation's largest independent manufacturers and distributors of architectural paints and paint supplies. The company is dedicated to a greener by design® philosophy and produces its eco-friendly paints in the world's first LEED® Gold-certified manufacturing plant. Based in Southern California, the company is composed of approximately 1,400 employees. www.dunnedwards.com. Its award-winning specs + spaces blog can be found at www.specsspaces.com.