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Posts tagged “painting”

Jeremiah Goodman's Inspiring Art

Flipping through an old Domino magazine, we came across the paintings of Jeremiah Goodman with the modern day furniture and décor finds that Domino mixed with it. We love the rich colors and abstrac...

Flickr Find: Amy Rice's Stenciled Shed

We're loving all the amazing inspiration all you AT:LA-ers are posting to our AT:LA Flickr Pool! Here's another great example: AT:LA reader AmyRice shared with us this fun idea. If you have a shed or ...

Shur-Line Teflon-Coated Paint Tray

Now this is a great use of Teflon. We try to clean and reuse all of our painting supplies, but sometimes we forget to get to a paint tray quick enough and then it's just a pain in the paint bucket to ...

Painting Ikea Furniture
Living Etc. July 2008

Just add color! We immediately tabbed this page while flipping through the July 2008 issue of Living Etc. It's part of a spread about using pastels in modern ways. We love the color combination and wa...

Flickr Finds: Transform Your Furniture with Decoupage

Jonathan's post last week on The Palihouse Holloway Hotel's corkboard got us thinking about decoupage. A decorative art form made with collected images, it's simple; if you can cut and paste, you ca...

Bookmarked: The Furniture Doctor

Sweet! So, you found this great piece on the street and you’re thinking you’d like to redo it. Gregory transformed an old stereo cabinet; why not you? Hmmm, but where do you start? A good ide...

LA Spring Cure O8: Week 5 - Paper & Wires & Piles, Oh My!

Tanrazz is using no VOC paints. A healthy choice for her and anyone who's painting. Good Quote: "It's gonna get worse before it gets better" - Tanrazz Is there a tornado in your house? There is ...

LA Good Question: Staining/Painting a Laminate

I purchased an ikea malm bed in birch veneer about a year ago. My decor has drastically changed in that year and I was wondering if you know of anyway to paint it or stain it a different color? Oh ...

Inspiration: Writing on the Walls

As children, we loved things painted directly on the walls although we were very firmly discouraged from doing it ourselves. Perhaps that's why, when we saw this, it spoke both to our love of murals...

The House Beautiful Paintbrush: Online Paint Color Picker

Here's another tool from House Beautiful magazine that will help you get an idea of what your plain-Jane bedroom might look like in "Dellwood Sand", "O'Reilly Green" or a multitude of other paint choi...

LA Good Question: What to put above the sofa?

We've had some great questions sent to us recently and this one is no exception. It comes from Jill: "What should I put above the couch? I have very tall ceilings, that could stand up to a big pi...