How to Pick the Right White Kitchen Paint Color
If you want a fresh, white kitchen, selecting the right white kitchen paint color for your walls or cabinets can be massively frustrating! After all, there are hundreds of whites out there, in all variations of undertones: blue-whites, yellow-whites, pink-whites. Navigating undertones is tricky, but if just need a little guidance to make the […]
Updating a Tuscan Brown Home? Here are 6 Tips
If you’re ready to start updating your Tuscan brown home, where do you begin? What will have the most impact immediately? Do you start with painting the walls? (Not a bad plan!) New rugs? Furniture?? Moving out of the Dark Ages (the “Brown Phase”) actually starts with decluttering! Because most homes designed during the […]
Decorating with Cream and Gray – Taking the Nervousness Out of It!
After seeing light, fresh interiors everywhere in stores, on HGTV, and in your friends’ houses, you’re ready to freshen up your home, especially if it’s still in what we call the “Brown Phase” of the past few decades. You’ll be moving out of the Dark Ages – literally! But you’re unsure how to begin. Cream or […]
Painting Crown Molding to Match Cabinets – Is It a Good Idea?
Painting crown molding is usually straightforward – just paint it the same color as the rest of the trim or woodwork in the room (the baseboards, door casings, and window sills). But there are exceptions! . If we’re painting kitchen cabinets in a new color, homeowners often ask us whether their crown molding should be painted […]
Black Painted Trim – 5 Guidelines on How to Use It!
Perhaps you’ve noticed lots of black painted trim – doors, windows, woodwork – in interior design magazines. The problem is, not ALL the trim is black, which makes it hard to figure out the pattern. Maybe all the baseboards and crown molding are white, but the windows themselves (the metal, wood, or vinyl parts – […]
Wallpaper Trends … Yes, Wallpaper is Back!
Okay folks, in case you’re still wondering, wallpaper trends have changed again, and now it’s back! I know you’ve been meaning to get rid if that old dated wallpaper, thinking that the stuff is completely passe. You’ve resigned yourself to having that room with the leopard print wallpaper textured and painted like the rest of the house, […]
