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Fall for Olive Green
Color Inspiration

Consider the olive. Bold, fruity, elegant, and sophisticated. An emblem of peace and a symbol of health. It's one of those versatile colors that can accommodate a range of styles depending on how it...

Painting Bathroom Ceiling Same Color as Walls

We'd been curious about the idea of painting a ceiling — not just a tint of the wall color but the actual wall color for a while. And the bathroom seemed like a safe, small space to experimen...

Retro Color: 10 Red and Pink Rooms from the 1960s

Do you know that feeling when your mind says “no way” and your heart says “yes, yes, yes!”…? That’s how these red and pink rooms from the 1960s make us feel — they’re a little bi...

Green & Authentic: Milk Paint

We are working on a project renovating an 1850's New England colonial home and while we are putting many modern amenities in the home, we are trying to do it in an environmentally responsible way. L...

Survey: Have You Used Colored Chalkboard Paint?

We have a client for our redesign business who is interested in doing a colored chalkboard wall in her child's room but she wants something other than the readily available black or green chalkboard...

Using Marine Paint for Wood Floors

We love the look of wood floors in a bathroom. We inherited a wood floor in ours — it was about the only thing we loved about the tiny, long and narrow space. One of the first things we did wa...