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Tip #3: seriously?

Some of these points are rather debatable.

Add Tip #1 to that as well. Why would I paint my furniture at all, let alone the same color as the walls. Paint a rug? That's absurd! Do these people live in barns?

i think what they mean is to paint a rug onto the floor (i.e., paint a rectangle onto your floor that is different from the rest of the floor and maybe has a pattern), instead of adding a rug.

I have white trim, including a picture rail at about 7 ft. Everything above the picture rail is white too. I love that repainting the color sections takes me 4 hrs or less per room.

all of these seem rather dubious... i tend to think that a glossy finish on a ceiling is not a great idea, and the 8 foot rule seems arbitrary.

# 8 seems doable, but should include caution against doing so in older spaces in which the walls may not be even.

the only tip that truly makes sense to me is #7 - but with some of the newer paints, such as BM Aura, it really doesn't matter what finish you use.

My favorite smart tip is to just hire someone else to do it.

Really and truly, I've decided it's not worth my time, aggravation and mess to do it myself, when a professional can get it done in a fraction of the time and make it look great. I'd rather spend the effort picking the color than schlepping drop cloths and moving furniture and touching up the corners.

Also, gloss is a b*tch to paint over. I'm all for eggshell! Or even better, ceiling paint, the kind that turns pink. It's nice on walls.

Tip #9: Paint your toupee the same color as the walls! This is especially important if the walls are a metallic or fluorescent color. It will make the room look more graphic.

Tip #10: Have a party and dye all the crudites and other finger food the same color as your toupee which should be the same color as your rug which should be the same color of your furniture which you should probably paint the same color as your walls.

Tip #11: Make a Kool-Aid® which should be the same color as . ..

Painting a rug?

Hey all - to clarify Tip #3 - paint a rug. You can paint a "rug" design, not the actual rug. This was one of the tips offered in the article.

#2 and #6 are contradictory;

#2 Leaving a white ceiling tends to make the room feel lower then it is.

#6 Go by the 8 ft rule. If the ceiling is less then 8 ft high, paint the ceiling 2 shades lighter then the wall color. If the ceiling is higher then 8 ft, paint the ceiling 2 shades darker then the wall color.

So a shorter ceiling should have a lighter colored paint... like white. Afraid to say that painting the ceiling the same as the walls makes you feel like you're in a box. I tried this with milk chocolate colored paint. After repainting the ceiling white the room felt like the lid was removed.

#2 and #6 are contradictory. #6 says if the ceiling is less than 8 feet to go two shades lighter on the ceiling, but #2 says a white ceiling will make the room feel lower. Two shades lighter is pretty darn close to white for all but the deepest color shades.

My boyfriend and I were just discussing this..
So in one instance 8ft is too low, in the next it's too high. To start, 8ft isn't a very high ceiling to begin with..
That's just stupid!

Arghhhhhhhhhhhh..