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Get Color Inspiration from Your Favorite Painter
A great idea is to get color inspiration from your favorite artist. You can look through books of their paintings, choose some that have colors you like and then look at the color combinations in the painting. I’m considering using blue in a kitchen/dining room area. This painting by Van Gogh has some great color [...]
Tool for Picking Room Colors — Slideshows
Martha Stewart’s site has slide shows of rooms by color. You can choose from red, pink, green, blue, orange, neutral and black and white. Check it out for ideas of colors to paint your room. Share on Facebook and other services:
Photos of Rooms Painted in Two Colors
We have a living room that opens onto a kitchen. I’ve always painted the whole area one color. Now I’m yearning for a more varied palette. The plan is to use two different colors… one in the kitchen and one in the living room. The question is, which two colors will go well together? Looking [...]
Top Tips for Choosing Paint Colors
1. Consider the permanent items in your room… meaning the floors and cabinets and possibly furniture. 2. Consider the lighting in the room throughout the day and year. You can put samples of paint on the wall (smoothly leaving no lines to show through later). Or paint a board (like a poster board) that you [...]
How to See Photos of Different Color Rooms
You can easily see lots of photos of rooms in specific colors online! This can help you choose paint colors. Say you want to see yellow rooms, simply type into Google, “images yellow rooms” (or “red rooms”, “green rooms”, “orange rooms” or “blue rooms”, etc.). When the search comes up you’ll see “images yellow rooms”. [...]
Wondering how to choose paint colors inside your house? We’re about to do a lot of painting and have found a couple of useful tools. Here are my favorite so far: Sherwin-Williams Color Visualizer – Has many colors to see on the walls of different rooms in a house Pottery Barn’s Experience Colors – Allows [...]
Old Dangers Residing in Older Homes
Guest Blogger Eric Stevenson is passionate about restoring old homes. He’s graciously allowed us to post this great article about the dangers that can lurk in these sorts of projects, and the precautions that can be taken to keep your family safe. You picked the color pallet, watched countless hours of home improvement television and [...]
Roofing Options for Flat Roofs
We have a flat roof on our garage that’s been leaking. The roofing is at least 15 -20 years old. It was tarred by the previous owners to try to fix the leaks. We even tried tarring it as a temporary fix. That only moved the leak to over parts of the roof. Flat roofs [...]
How to Use Photoshop to See What Your House Looks Like Renovated
You can use a program like Photoshop to try out different combinations for your house. I wanted to see how a specific color would look and how it would look covering up the bricks. (I feel like the bricks give it an old house look and I want it to look more updated.) My son [...]
We had to replace our roof. According to my contractor, the major brands are similar in quality: Certainteed and GAF Timberline seem to be comparable. He said Tamko is heavier. That’s important if you’re starting surface isn’t smooth, like when you’re going over another roof instead of stripping the old one off. (Though I noticed [...]
