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 of darkness, a lot of […]
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 day. This kind of generic […]
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 a historic home update part-way […]
Our Favorite White Kitchens – Why They’re Not Boring
When we started painting kitchen cabinets years ago, most people were giddy with joy at finally painting out their heavy oak cabinets and getting the bright, white kitchen design they’d dreamed of. Fresh white kitchens were a happy, mood-lifting antidote to the brown-and-tan kitchens of the 90’s and 2000’s, and project after project of our […]
What Makes a Classic Kitchen?
Most of us don’t want a trendy kitchen, we want a classic kitchen. In this one part of our home where the family connects and feels at ease, we want a timeless, comfortable space that we can enjoy for years. We feed our families, gather with friends, and make memories in this space. We want […]
Is Transitional Style Coming Back?
If you’ve noticed the resurgence of warmer neutrals in interior design, you may be wondering, is transitional style coming back? Are we returning to beige, cream, and tan color schemes? And what does that mean for upcoming design trends in your own home? You may remember transitional style from the early 2000’s, before all-white interiors […]
5 Ways to Make Your Kitchen Look More Custom
If you’re updating your home, knowing how to make your kitchen look more custom is not a matter of new flooring or counters, it starts with your cabinets. We’re going to show you five ways to make your kitchen look more custom, but they all focus on the cabinets in your kitchen. This is because […]
Upcoming Color Trends in 2022
Try googling “upcoming color trends in interior design” and you’ll get see a plethora of posts listing the “10 (or 15, or 21) most popular paint colors to use right now!”, or “The 2022 color of the month/year”, etc. This post is NOT about that. Since I’m one of the color consultants for Paper Moon […]
How NOT to Pick Paint Color – 5 Common Mistakes
A recent blog post, from a well-respected source that shall remain nameless, gave some tips and tricks on how to pick paint color. You’d think this is a simple topic, but I actually cringed when I read the advice listed. The talented designers in the article gave some suggestions that were, in my opinion, how NOT to […]