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 […]
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 […]
Why is it So Expensive to Paint a House?
“Why is it so expensive to paint a house? Why is there such a wide range in the estimates I get?” You grumble to your partner as you’re looking at three widely different bids. You really liked the most expensive guy (of course), but the cheaper guy’s price is just hard to ignore. Is the […]
6 Hard Truths your Color Consultant Wants You to Know
An excited homeowner has just moved into her house, unpacked everything, and is opening the door for the color consultant to come in and work her magic. As a color consultant, I know exactly what the homeowner is probably thinking… She is thrilled to be moved in, but NOT with some of the home’s […]
How a Color Consultant Can Save your Project
Before I got trained as a color consultant, I used to stress over picking paint colors. I’d come home from the paint store with ziploc bags full of paint chips. No such thing as too many choices, right? Somewhere among all those paint chips would be the perfect color, the one that would make […]
Paint and Primer in One
Does “Paint and Primer in One” actually work? Homeowners and DIY enthusiasts have almost certainly heard their favorite paint company advertise a product that eliminates the need to prime. “Paint and primer in one? My lucky day!” This sounds especially tempting for rooms that are less central to the home, or likely to be changed […]
Be Honest, Can I Trust your Painters?
We get asked this question by nearly half of our new clients, who are looking for trustworthy painters but want a straight answer from a human, and not just an online recommendation. And I don’t blame them. I know the feeling of opening your front door for the electrician or plumber and thinking, “Hmm. He […]
7 Accent Wall Do’s and Don’ts
How do I make my accent wall look good? Whether painted or wallpapered or done in a special materials like rustic wood, we’ve all seen the good, the bad, and the ugly when it comes to focal walls or feature walls. Usually we see a cute little corner in our house or an area that […]
