Reasons to Hire a Professional House Painter
So you're planning to paint your house. The question is do you do it yourself, or do you hire a professional house painter to do the job for you?
Painting is essentially one of the easiest DIY jobs that you...
Interior Paint Color Combinations
Choosing the right interior paint color combination can be an agonizing decision. Not only is painting a room a time-consuming project, it's also expensive. A basic knowledge of the color wheel and color theory will help you to understand...
How to Paint an Exterior Door
Whether you have a new exterior door to paint or are going to repaint an existing door, the techniques are basically the same. Repainting an old door requires some additional steps such as removing hardware, sanding and priming. This...
How to Paint over Wallpaper
It doesn't matter what type of paint job you are going to tackle, preparation is the most important part. So here's the bad news. Whether you want to know how to paint a newly plastered wall, a wall that...
How to Match Paint Colors
Matching paint colors that other people have chosen can be incredibly difficult and frustrating. In fact it can even be difficult to match your own paint colors if you haven't taken the time and trouble to keep careful notes...
Cleaning a Paint Brush – Tips and Tricks to Saving Your Brush
If you are going to be tackling any home improvement projects that involve painting, you’re going to have to know how to go about cleaning a paint brush. If you don’t do it properly, the paint will dry in...
Latex Paint – Trivia and Information
Latex paint is made from a water soluble base that is mixed with a polyvinyl material containing acrylic resin. The name latex is actually misleading because latex paint does not contain latex at all (it is therefore safe for...
How Colors Affect Your Mood – Gray-blues have a Zen-like Quality
Colors affect your mood in ways that you aren't aware of. Colors are used in public buildings, advertising and even in food in order to produce desired effects. The power of color to change our minds and bodies is...
Painting Over Dark Paint Colors
Paint is one of the easiest ways to change the look of your home. It is also one of the least expensive routes you can take to instantly improve its image and the way you feel at home. You...
Is More Expensive House Paint Worth The Money
Painting the inside of a house--or even just a room--is an ambitious, time consuming undertaking. House paint can seem like a ghastly cost when you're looking at prices between $30 and $50 per gallon. You may be asking yourself,...
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Greenhouse Accessories
For a passionate gardener, a greenhouse adds a bit of excitement to cultivating flowers, vegetables, fruits, and herbs. In a greenhouse you can grow just about anything, but what makes it different than your standard garden is the use of greenhouse accessories. There are several different accessories that can...
Define your Kitchen Style
Whatever sort of lifestyle you favor, nowadays the kitchen is generally the most frequently used room in the house. For this very reason, it is a room that deserves special care and attention, especially when you decide you want to define your kitchen style
For many people it is most...
Advantages of using a Real Estate Agent
It’s official: having a real estate agent help you sell or buy a house carries numerous advantages. This opinion does not come from the books we’ve read that extol the 101 virtues of real estate agents. It’s from the experience of our sister and a gamut of other friends...
