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Posts tagged “paints, stains & finishes”

Help! Home Office Paint Color?

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...

CHI Good Questions: Paint Metal Gold on this Desk?

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...

Decor Sources for Carrie's New Apartment
Chicago Tribune 06.01.08

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 ...

Clip File: Best of Paint Color Questions

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...

Flickr Finds: Liquid Stereo's White Epoxy Floor

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...

Pick Your Favorite: Green Bathroom

#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...

Before and After: Kim's Kitchen

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......

Green Wall Finishes from Straw Sticks & Bricks

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...

Environmentally Safe Mythic Paint

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...

Mood Hue: Color Quizzes

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...

Yellow Painted Furniture

Painted furniture is a simple way to bring a shot of color into a space. You can buy it new or restore an old piece with a fresh coat of paint. We love bright, lemon-yellow accent tables like this ...

Flickr Finds: Dior Gray Accent Wall

There's been a lot of activity over on Flickr in the past few days. Thanks to the AT Cure, we are sure to see a lot more in the upcoming weeks! This one, tagged with "apartmenttherapychicago" and pos...

In a Blue Mood

What do your walls say about you? Find out online using Pantone's Mood Selector. The custom mood palette allows you to choose paint colors that fit your personality. Are you an analytical person wi...

Blog News: Our First Email Blast from A Fresh Squeeze

Last week we wrote about the green-living blog, A Fresh Squeeze, and were eager to get our first newsletter. Did anyone else sign up? If not, here's a taste of what they covered this week: Is Your Hou...

Metallic Paints: New From Benjamin Moore

Looking through our new December Domino, we flipped when we saw that Benjamin Moore has a brand new line of metallic finishes. In the magazine there is room done in a pale, pearly gold (called Vei...

PalacePapers by Casey Gunschel

Notice the resurrection of scene-stealing wallpaper lately? Add hand drawn and painted designs by PalacePapers to the mix and we're all eyes. Designer Casey Gunschel finds inspiration in various na...

AFM Safecoat Paint : Green is a Beautiful Color

When a friend was setting up house with her husband and infant son the search was on for a safer alternative to standard paint. Her research showed that even paint classified as low- or zero- voc may ...

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