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Things to know about painting cabinets and kitchen renovation: If your kitchen is small, repainting the walls may not be enough change since kitchen cabinets and tiles often take up a large amount of wall space. Painting "refreshes" the look of your kitchen cabinets, while refacing cabinets gives them a [...]

We walked into the house and encountered a scene straight out of 1965.  ✅ Floral print in the kitchen. ✅ Floral print in the bedroom. ✅ Floral print in the bathroom.  Floral print was in virtually every room, bumping up against the edges of old carpet and windows that undoubtedly [...]

Things to know about using ceiling paint for repairs You can use ceiling paint to hide cracks and imperfections caused by cracked ceiling paint or a structural issue — assuming the issue is repaired. You can use ceiling paint on small wall cracks, but it may appear flat. Ceiling paint [...]

Dementia patients suffer a loss of cognitive abilities and memory. Alzheimer's disease also induces memory loss and as both progress, memory care patients are at risk of confusing objects for things they're not, wandering away, loss of spatial awareness, and all the other trappings that come from the loss of [...]

Those of us here in the East Bay are lucky (or not, depending on your view of snow) that we don't have a harsh winter. Like much of California and the southern U.S. we get a little rain, some cold but not freezing weather, and then it's back to spring [...]

Insurance, warranties, age — and skill — are deciding factors in whether or not you should paint vinyl siding We talk a lot on this site about how to DIY all sorts of interior and exterior paint projects. But for once, we're going to suggest you leave painting vinyl siding to [...]

The obvious way to ventilate a room while painting is by opening the doors and windows for natural ventilation. As we've discussed before about paint fume dissipation, you could cycle fresh air and any paint fumes or smells multiple times an hour with the windows open. Coupled with today's modern [...]

Painting an interior brick wall or brick fireplace may be the most controversial painting decisions we encounter. Most people strongly disagree on whether you should ever paint brick. Plus, once you paint brick, you can't ever restore it to its original state. Brick is a porous material and painting it [...]

Your bathroom walls are not unlike your kitchen walls. Unlike your kitchen, however, bathrooms are high-humidity environments because of hot showers. That means the best paint for bathrooms is semi-gloss paint. You want moisture-resistant paint that's easy to wipe down, won't bubble or peel under temperature stress, and expect them [...]

Unless you're using flat paint with a flat finish, or it's a small blemish in a corner, you probably can't touch up paint on walls. To get the best results, you'll need to use the leftover paint or get new, original paint that matches the wall as it is today [...]