So, you've scored an amazing deal on a vintage lacquered cabinet or a pair of painted chairs, but the finish is faded and cracked. Do you have your furniture refinished or do you leave it alone and ...
Right now, it's gray outside our window, so we thought we'd look indoors for some color. Yellow is one of our favorite hues for a kitchen or a sunroom. The trick is to......
I remember when my family had dinner together nearly every night. There was plenty of time to talk about the day and plans for the next. But today it can get hectic, with busy household members sque...
We ran across this photo of a stenciled room by Benjamin Moore - it was done with the new Portico Wall Tattoo and the idea is that you use it in repeat to create an all-over wallpaper-like effect or...
One of the great things about traveling is the sense that you're constantly stumbling across pockets of unexpected beauty. In Northampton, Massachusetts we found the Green Street Cafe just beyond th...
Painting furniture is one of the cheapest and simplest ways to upgrade an old or oddly colored piece. We've seen some great makeover examples on Apartment Therapy, including curbside finds that have...
We all know that wall color changes everything about a space, which is why it gives most of us pause when planning a room painting project. We ran across a cool planning tool today and used it to quic...
A few weeks ago Carrie over at Ohdeedoh, alerted us to a new product that we think has possibilities for grown up spaces and kid spaces alike. IdeaPaint is a single-coat roller-applied paint, that t...
There are some amazing transformations featured in Domino's archives -- we only wish we could see the entire room rather than a cropped image. By studying the before against the after, you can take ma...
Digital coloring is never the same as painting a sample spot in your room, but it helps narrow down the pool of choices. Olympic Paints (zero VOC paint available at Lowe's) offers you the ability to p...
Paint manufacturer Behr has a new online inspiration gallery that sorts rooms by color. If you're looking for paint ideas, it's a good resource. Although viewing colors online is a hit-or-miss appro...
Yesterday we blogged Pantone's choice for "the" color of 2009, which is Mimosa, known officially (but less poetically) as 14-0848 TPX. We noticed a few readers wondering in the comments about matchin...
Male bowerbirds use color to personalize their space and, more importantly, to attract the lady birds into it. Sound familiar? Jump down to see how one AT reader uses the lure of color in her own ne...
Checking out Swedish paint seller Alcro for some color ideas, we came across these big, bold walls that made us do a double-take. Whether or not we'd replicate something like this in our own home, w...
Item: Low VOC Aura Paint from Benjamin Moore Price: $55 per gallon Rating: Strong Recommend* How did you spend the last weekend of the summer? Ours was demo, prep and paint, paint, paint with the ...
I have serious anxiety when it comes to paint selection. Staring at the swatches and pictures of other people's places, it makes my head spin - and getting it wrong just dearly sucks. Please help as I...
Liz is considering a makeover for her desk: "I have a computer desk like the one above (the only difference is that my desk has silver colored metal instead of black). It's not a great piece, but I t...
We know that many AT-ers were fans of Carrie's old apartment - we heard that it got a big makeover in the film via the Chicago Tribune, which was on the SATC bandwagon this week. In a quick interview ...
Yesterday's post about a prodigious magazine collection got us thinking - since many of you create "clip files" of the useful, inspirational or intriguing articles from your paper-based design addicti...
We just stumbled upon Liquid Stereo and the photos he's been taking of his loft-in-progress. He's made lots of great design decisions but the one that jumped out to us, as both gutsy and glamorous, w...
#1: Bathroom from the Glass Block shopGreen is a fantastic, calming color for any room in the house. For bathrooms, we searched a wide range of hues and styles, and wonder which reigns the supreme gre...
A brilliant blogger makes over her self-described "really ugly" kitchen. Kim says, "I've always wanted pink cabinets and since I now live alone, I figured what the hell." Indeed! More photos below......
Glitzy and green! Straw Sticks & Bricks offers a variety of wall treatments, including these 100% recycled aluminum tiles. Alumillenium Tile is available in 2x2" or 4x4" and in three different finis...
Zero. Thats the amount of VOCs and carcinogens in the brand new paint line called Mythic. Mythic paint is all the good things: non-toxic, solvent free and environmentally safe...and they are adding i...
The key to choosing the right color, according to some paint manufacturers, is more reliant on personality characteristics than paint chips. We spent all morning deep in self-analysis on the proverbi...
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