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Live a while and you'll discover opposites often attract, but that doesn’t make them attractive. Like when your kid mixed the sugar and salt in those birthday pancakes. Or that time your high school crush mixed up the shampoo and hair coloring. The same goes for your walls. Water and [...]

Starting a new interior design project can be both exciting and daunting. Choosing paint colors is time-consuming, challenging depending on your decor and window treatments, and feels uncomfortably “permanent”.  These tips can help you quickly create color combinations using three basic design principles. Additionally, we’ve added three useful tips for [...]

We sometimes pick up the pieces of a bad paint job. Here's how to tell if your project was worth it.  Like any craft, a paint job can be done with care that goes beyond merely brushing liquid against a wall. A contractor's experience, their work crew, the warranty and [...]

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 [...]