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House and Home

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 [...]

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Faux Finish A Heavy Textured Wall or Just Paint It

So, simple enough question at first glance, right? What is the best type of faux finish to use when painting over a heavy swirled plaster wall ? A faux finish on a heavy texture requires different tools and also a different mindset for the results. If you decide to paint a faux finish on a [...]

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Budget Bathroom Makeover

We all have budgets to consider when starting a project. Especially these days! It’s a lot less expensive to “spruce up” your space rather than do a complete remodel and right now that’s a pretty good choice if you need a change. A newsletter subscriber recently wrote in to share her bathroom makeover with us [...]

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Painting Embossed Wallpaper

Don’t you love the new embossed wallpaper you can put up to get that “old punch tin” look? You can use it anywhere but ceilings seem to be the popular choice. If I had the right ceiling I’d put it up and paint it an aged copper, I think. Yum!! A newsletter subscriber wrote in [...]