HELPFUL ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS

We answer your most-asked questions on home painting, wallpapering, and cabinet refinishing!


There’s more good stuff on our Design Advice page, too.

Peter and Lisa answer your home painting questions, Paper Moon Painting
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How to Get a Wallpaper Installation Estimate

Most bids for work in the home improvement space are pretty straightforward, but a wallpaper installation estimate is different.  We’ll explain what to expect and why it’s sometimes a two-part process! The Multiple Parts of a Wallpaper Installation Estimate A typical estimate to install wallpaper includes two things that you

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How to Get a Lime Plaster Estimate

Want to know how to get a lime plaster estimate for your home?  Getting a lime plaster estimate involves more than just sending us your room’s length and width.  We’ll walk you through the process!   Different types of plaster The first step is knowing exactly what kind of finish

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Your Interior Limewash Painting Estimate

Getting your interior limewash painting estimate is just Step One of a customized process that will give your home that lovely, authentic limewash finish you’re looking for.  But getting a lime painting estimate is more than just “getting the numbers”.  Because lime painting in all its forms is a hand-done,

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How to do Modern Tuscan Interior Design

If you think of Tuscan interior design as dark, heavy, and overly ornate, you may be picturing the Tuscan trend we all saw in the 1990’s and early 2000s.  We remember those days!  Interiors of the time overdid the earth tones and felt depressing and cave-like.  After over a decade

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Limewash vs Lime Paint vs Lime Plaster – Which One?

There’s a whole category of specialty finishes that have suddenly been “rediscovered”, and they all have “lime” in the title – limewash, lime wash, limewash paint, lime plaster, lime paint.  And sometimes you’ll hear  “mineral wash” or “mineral paint” as well.  But which is which?? Since we’re a painting company

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Maximalist Interior Design

Are you a maximalist at heart?  If the “less is more” approach taken by minimalist interior design leaves you wanting more, you’re not alone! Maximalism has been around in one form or another for centuries, ever since wealthy citizens and the nobility began trying to outdo each other with a

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Dining Room Design with a Modern Luxe Style

When it comes to dining room design, just buying a nice table and chairs isn’t enough.  Yet because the function of a dining room is so standardized, many homeowners get a coordinated dining set, add a plant in the corner and some art on the wall and call it a

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Updating a Historic Home with Kim Wolfe and HGTV

Updating a historic home is challenging enough, without adding budget pressures and tight deadlines.  When designer Kim Wolfe called on Paper Moon Painting to come help with her historic home renovation for season 2 of HGTV’s “Why the Heck Did I Buy this House?“, we dove right in!   Joining

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Wallpaper Trends in Nurseries

If you’re expecting a little one, congratulations!!!  There’s nothing more exciting than planning for your precious bundle of joy, whether it’s your first or you’re adding to a growing family. Part of the fun is deciding how you’re going to decorate your new baby’s space.  We’ve got the latest on

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Notes on our home painting blog:

We know there’s a lot of “noise” out there.  With the monetization of blogs and other sites like Instagram or Pinterest, not to mention lead-generating sites like Angie’s List, it seems like everyone out there has written posts or articles about home improvement and home design, just to get you to click on their site.

 

Unfortunately, most of the stuff out there is . . . not very useful.

 

We’ve taken great care to write posts that we feel are more in-depth and practical than what you’ll find in the average home painting blog.  We especially lean towards topics relating to interior design.  Since most home painters don’t have training in interior design or color consulting, and probably don’t work with interior designers as closely as we do, we feel we’re uniquely suited to address some of these topics.  After all, there’s plenty of inspiration online, but knowing how to incorporate good design choices into your own home painting project is another matter entirely!  We hope you’ll find some good information here.

 

In addition to design advice, we also show you behind-the-scenes posts like this one on the whole cabinet painting process, and on what really matters when you’re looking for a great painting company.  (Hint:  It’s not just their online reviews!)  And if you’re working with an interior designer, please don’t miss this article on what NOT to do!

 

We’ve also gleaned some of our favorite interior design-related articles from around the web, here.   We don’t share it on our website unless we think it’s truly worth reading!

 

And if you want some lovely visual inspiration, check out our InstagramPinterest, and Houzz pages.  (No, we haven’t monetized anything!)  Browse the internet and dream, then come here for help in implementing your vision!