5 Ways to Make Your Kitchen Look More Custom
If you’re updating your home, knowing how to make your kitchen look more custom is not a matter of new flooring or counters, it starts with your cabinets. We’re going to show you five ways to make your kitchen look more custom, but they all focus on the cabinets in your kitchen. This is because […]
Where to Buy Wallpaper
Where to buy wallpaper has become a real puzzle for many of us Without a local showroom, where do you go? How do you know what’s available, what you will like, what a wallpaper might feel like or look like in your space? What options do you have? Knowing where to buy wallpaper used to […]
Curb Appeal Basics: 7 Easy Things to Do First
If your home needs painting, do it, but don’t neglect these curb appeal basics! Even though we’re not professional landscapers, we see so many homes when we go to estimate an exterior painting project that we feel like we’ve absorbed some curb appeal basics by sheer osmosis! It’s too easy to get used to […]
4 Things to Know about Picking Exterior Paint Colors
Picking exterior paint colors is the scariest part of their project for most homeowners. The process seems fraught with peril: What if your house ends up looking garish and (even worse) everybody sees? What if it goes from “old, outdated eyesore” to “expensively painted eyesore”, and now you’ve spent your whole budget and it’s […]
Color Consultant, or Interior Designer?
Ever want a little help picking a paint color, but you’re not sure who to call – an interior designer, or a color consultant, or your stylish neighbor, or your mom? Especially when it comes to interior design and knowing what will make their home look good, many of us freeze. As professional painters, we […]
How a Color Consultant Can Save your Project
Before I got trained as a color consultant, I used to stress over picking paint colors. I’d come home from the paint store with ziploc bags full of paint chips. No such thing as too many choices, right? Somewhere among all those paint chips would be the perfect color, the one that would make […]
Paint and Primer in One
Does “Paint and Primer in One” actually work? Homeowners and DIY enthusiasts have almost certainly heard their favorite paint company advertise a product that eliminates the need to prime. “Paint and primer in one? My lucky day!” This sounds especially tempting for rooms that are less central to the home, or likely to be changed […]
Should I Paint my Kitchen Cabinets Myself?
As a lover and purveyor of interior design on a dime, I’ve wondered, “Should I paint my kitchen cabinets myself?” I’m always looking for inspiration and how-to’s on just about any interior design or home improvement topic, and I have to admit the amount of “Professional DIYers” I follow on Instagram is astronomical. The tufted […]
Painting Cabinets – How the Pros do it
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 […]
