Painting a fence may not sound like the hardest project, but painting a metal wrought iron fence? Well that’s another story. Here’s the how-to on this do-it-yourself project.

“Essentially . . . we were told that we had to put up that wrought-iron fence that cost us $8,500,” said Peg Kane, who owns Chicago Truck Leasing Co. at 1054 W. Madison St. with her three ...