If you have an old dresser from your childhood bedroom or a tired nightstand you found on Facebook Marketplace, a can of paint seems like the obvious way to give it a new lease on life.

Paint is the cheapest, easiest renovation you can do: it makes everything fresh and new, it covers defects, and it’s something almost anyone can do to a reasonable level of quality. If you just ...

You pour the excess from the rolling pan into the paint can, you tap the lid back into place with a hammer, and you stick the old can somewhere out of the way, where you promptly forget about it.

In many homes, half-empty paint cans sit untouched in basements and garages, collecting dust as homeowners wait for that one ...

PITTSBURGH, April 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a way to preserve the integrity of leftover paint in paint cans," said an inventor, from Jamestown, R.I., "so I invented the LIQUID CAPS.