I have one more teensy project left to round out bathroom renovation month at Apartment Therapy. Here's one for the kiddies...

I feel as if I haven't written about a dark color in a bedroom in so long, and they've so thoroughly pervaded the internet these last few years. One half of this couple needed convincing on this point at first, but not for long. We originally discussed using a soft gray blue, but our test sample looked so dull and Colonial and, well — conventional that we finally moved on.

Ok, so it's not Park Avenue, but it is the cutest top-floor Nolita duplex that a bachelorette could desire. And what better way to amp up the chic quotient than with a few hand-painted stripes?

Longtime readers of this column will know that I redo my bathroom more often than I run out for eggs, so for bathroom renovation month at Apartment Therapy, let's look at my latest foray. File this under "Why Not."

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I recently asked my friend and fellow colorist Emmett Fiore at Fine Paints of Europe what he had cooking, and these are the first photos he sent me. For an inexpensive way to brighten your home's exterior, why not try a new treatment around the front door?

I feel like I spent much of the last year doing striés, including, on one occasion, a whole building's common hallways. In this example we're producing a glazed finish that looks like fabric.

I meant for this little experiment to be completed in time for "Project Month" at Apartment Therapy last fall, but I bit off more than I could chew and, well, here we are. So let me now offer a few notes on painted ornament in the bedroom.

I was sitting in my local watering hole watching the news and something hit me full force that's been on my back burner for a while — men in politics now wear pink ties.

Once or twice a year, I have occasion to pass through Grand Central Station on the way to a project somewhere. Every time I enter the main concourse and look up at the painted celestial ceiling I go, "Aw." Let's take a look.

I've had all manner of painted stripe projects lately, from toe top to crown. Here's a more traditional approach, something subtle that still reads well when you're in the room.