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House and Home

Paint over Formica Cabinets? Sure – Faux Woodgrain!

This happens a lot. You buy a home that someone else has personalized to suit their taste. Problem is…it isn’t your taste. So what do you do? Paint it of course! Yes, you paint it. Paint can change anything to be more “user friendly”. That’s why we LOVE it so much!! You can even [...]

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Faux Painting Tips: Damage From Stripping Wallpaper

Don’t you LOVE stripping wallpaper? No? Not a surprise. I don’t know anyone that actually LIKES this task. It’s why I choose faux finishes over wallpaper every time. Everyone knows that stripping wallpaper can cause damage… boy, do I know. Those little gouges can show up like the huge caverns when it comes time [...]

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Faux Finish Ideas – Tuscan Painting for Kitchens

Ready for a change in your kitchen? I’m thinking about it. But…really it’s the cabinets, countertops and layout I’d want to change…more than my current paint job. Lol! But maybe you’re ready to change the paint, too. How about a Tuscan kitchen? When you consider Tuscan painting for kitchens, a whole new world of [...]

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Faux Finish How To: Help Choosing Wall Colors

Color… it’s like magic. Just add paint to the walls in your favorite new color and “voila”! You’ve changed the mood of your entire room. It’s MAGIC. But with so many color choices…how do you even BEGIN pick?? What colors make a room look bigger? Dining Room color help…what looks good with furniture [...]

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Faux Painted Floor: How Do You Protect It?

So in the last two months I’ve had several people write in that they were painting their floors. GREAT IDEA! Painting is easy to do and inexpensive. You could paint your floors to look like tile, or marble (check out Debra’s faux marble/granite video if you go that route) or even WOOD! Yeah…how about painting [...]

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Painting Tips: Toning Down Bright Orange Walls

Have you ever gone out on a limb and painted some BOLD color on your walls? Has it worked out for you? Or did you just groan when you were done? I painted my bedroom walls a dark cranberry…almost black cherry – just 3 walls – and was scared the whole time! But my ceilings [...]

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Faux Finish on a Knock Down Texture Wall – With Coffee?

Um…Okaaayy. I’ve never heard of this before…but… none the less… I got the question. A newsletter subscriber wrote in with this question: “Could you give instructions on how to stain a wall that has a knock down texture on it. I saw on TV that you could stain them with coffee. To me that would [...]

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Painting Glass – Ideas

Painting glass is not for the faint of heart. It takes patience and a bit of practice… but the results are so versatile and gorgeous. And not something you can do with just any ol’ paint. It takes special paints to work on glass. I’ve used the “expensive” Pepeo glass paints – which give stunning [...]

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New Color Trends for 2012 – Hot or Not?

Turquoise and Brown. Pink. Rose. What could be next? Every year new designs and colors hit the fashion world. And they hit the home design world as well. Pink was the color for 2011. Did you use it in your home? It’s not always a good way to go. Jumping on the “what’s hot” paint [...]

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Choosing What to Paint

A lot of people write in before they start to paint to ask this question. “What wall do I paint?” Sometimes it is just as hard to choose which walls to paint and what to paint on them as it is to learn the techniques! Recently we received this question – How to choose what [...]