If you own a home, there's a pretty good chance you've wielded a paintbrush a time or two. And even if you haven't, chances are that you will eventually.
It might seem like picking up a paintbrush and slapping some paint on the walls is the most basic, no-directions-needed, DIY project you can do, but it's not. Plenty of painting fails will put that rumor to bed. It turns out, there's a lot more to it than you might have imagined.