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Painting Cabinets – How the Pros do it

Painting Cabinets - How the Pros do it, blog, Paper Moon Painting, Austin TX

Painting cabinets is a pretty tempting DIY project.  How do the pros do it?   I remember looking at my hideous pickled-oak cabinets and thinking, “I should just paint those!  I’ve got time, how hard can it be?”  I used to be pretty handy back in the day, and I’d try household projects all the […]

7 Accent Wall Do’s and Don’ts

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How do I make my accent wall look good? Whether painted or wallpapered or done in a special materials like rustic wood, we’ve all seen the good, the bad, and the ugly when it comes to focal walls or feature walls.  Usually we see a cute little corner in our house or an area that […]

Black Painted Trim – 5 Guidelines on How to Use It!

Black painted trim in an Alamo Heights home painted by Paper Moon Painting company, San Antonio home painters

Perhaps you’ve noticed lots of black painted trim – doors, windows, woodwork – in interior design magazines.  The problem is, not ALL the trim is black, which makes it hard to figure out the pattern.  Maybe all the baseboards and crown molding are white, but the windows themselves (the metal, wood, or vinyl parts – […]

The “Brown Phase” is Over – Please Don’t Go Back!

Home interior updating, no more brown phase, painting, trends, Paper Moon Painting, San Antonio

Most of us know by now that the “Brown Phase” of interior design is (thankfully!) over.  It lasted a good long while… through all of the 90’s and into the mid-2000’s.   White and gray are tied for the “new neutral”, and bright colors are back in a big way.  No more bronzes, golds, and […]

White Painted Cabinets Transformed this Small Kitchen!

White lacquered cabinets in a retro redo kitchen, Paper Moon Painting, San Antonio, Monte Vista, Olmos Park

We wanted to show you one of our favorite examples of how white cabinets will transform a space!  This small kitchen, in a lovely hundred-year-old home in a historic neighborhood, was completely transformed when Paper Moon Painting refinished the cabinets in a lovely soft white.  The previous owner had “modernized” the kitchen in order to sell […]

“Gadzooks, My Cabinets are Orange!!” – Updating Cabinets, Part 1

Updating Cabinets, cabinets are orange, blog

Seemingly all at once, everyone’s cabinets are outdated.   One day, everyone woke up, took a good look at their golden oak cabinets while brewing their morning coffee, and said to themselves, “Argh!!… they’re orange!”  Or  you realize that those “whitewashed” pickled oak cabinets are… pale pink.  Suddenly you find yourself staring at a massive design […]

Color Choice is Difficult – Know When to Delegate It!

color choice from Benjamin Moore Color Fan Deck

Over the past few weeks, some of my clients have really struggled to pick a paint color.   These people were decisive professionals in their business lives, yet when sifting through hundreds of colors in dozens of paint charts, they froze.   So many colors are SO similar.  And color choice seems so “permanent”.  After all, you’re paying someone to put […]

Wallpaper: To Remove or Not to Remove – Part 2

Wallpaper, to Remove or Not to Remove, blog

We’re back for Part 2 of the gripping story that had you all on the edge of your seats at the end of Part 1: “I tried stripping this *f#&$@%!!^ paper, I’ve realized that removing wallpaper is no joyride but it still needs to come off, now what??”   Okay, so you took a razor […]