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. More

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. More

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.
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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.
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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. More

Last week I wrote about painted linoleum floors in a Brooklyn rental, which anyone could do in a weekend. This week I return to a project I did a few years ago, which required repair post water damage and is much more complex in its scale and development. More

Here's a project I'm about to try on my own apartment. A friend recently saw pictures of some of my other painted floor projects and said, oh can you do that for me? More

There are a lot of theories about how color in the home affects us. There are debates about warm tones versus cool tones or which colors are stimulating and which are relaxing. The bedroom is an area where this becomes particularly important. More

It's Project Month at Apartment Therapy, and what better opportunity to kick myself in the pants and try to finish something I've been working on for a year and a half…
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Help me to understand this: as per last week's New York Times Style section, perfectionism in interiors equals minimalism, and without stating it outright, therefore somehow also equals all white interiors. How can that be? More