Tag: paint

Infographic: The Psychology of Color at Home




Color plays a huge role in any home. It can make a room feel warm and inviting or cold and stale depending the shade. While each homeowners personal tastes will effect the color scheme of any home, there are some psychological influences that should cause us to think about that next room painting project.

May 01 / 2013

Infographic: Homeowners Want More Color




This week was National Painting Week. Like most painting projects, I put this off until the last possible day so sorry if this is your tardy reminder to get painting this week. Besides that this is a really interesting infographic from the folks at Sherwin Williams.

April 19 / 2013

Painting for a Home Sale




Making the proper impression is a major factor in attracting prospective home buyers and keeping their interest. One of the best ways to do that when selling a home is to repaint key areas of the home. The entire thing does not necessarily need a new paint job, unless the current one is significantly flawed.

Affordable ways to decorate your home for summer




The transition from spring to summer can lift everyone’s mood, and many homeowners get the urge to spruce up their properties.  From changes are as simple as replacing linens and rugs with brighter colors to planting a beautiful garden, there are several small summer upgrades for homeowners with different goals, and many of these improvements [...]

June 19 / 2012

How to Use Color to Correct Interiors in your Home




Color can actually help correct interiors in your home. The video below goes through some simple tips to help use your homes color palette to turn that room you can’t stand into an ideal living space.

April 25 / 2011

How to Build a Color Palette for Your Home




It wasn’t until I bought my first home with my wife that I learned what on earth a color wheel is. The brand name, Pantone, was also foreign to me, but quickly became a familiar term as we started to decorate our home. Nine years of marriage and two homes later, the color palette of [...]

February 01 / 2011

Low Cost Ways to Spruce Up Your Home




Every year my wife and I pick a project that we can undertake to improve our home. But somehow this project always becomes an expensive ordeal. One year what started as a need to replace a window in our sun room turned into tearing down the walls and gutting the entire room.

Now that’s not to say I’m not satisfied with the end result (because I am), but I enjoyed seeing an article from the Associate Press this morning that highlights 10 low cost ways to spruce up your home.

April 06 / 2010
Author David Marine
Category General
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