THANKS to the great popular interest in home painting and decorating which has developed in recent years, all the ordinary problems are reasonably well understood. Indeed, the paint manufacturers distribute such excellent literature on all phases of the household use of paints, varnishes, enamels, and lacquers, that there is little excuse for repeating the information in a book of this type. What follows in this chapter, therefore, are a number of suggestions on processes and treatments with which the average amateur is not so familiar or upon which no complete, practical information is readily available elsewhere.