Buying a can of paint should be an easy task. But walk into any home center or paint store and you’ll quickly discover that it can be quite daunting: wall-to-wall options and multiple formulations and ...

Though the term is used interchangeably with oil-based paints for most practical purposes, alkyd paints are actually not oil-based but alkyd resins mixed in some sort of thinner. When most people ...

Ashlyn is one of Forbes Home's in-house writers and a former civil engineer-turned content writer with over six years experience. Until recently, Ashlyn focused on creating content for Forbes Home as ...

Giving a room a fresh coat of paint breathes new life into a space. And it’s a relatively low-cost home improvement task that anyone can tackle. But there are some definite do’s and don’ts if you are ...

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Colleen Simonds, principal of Colleen Simonds Design, believes that color capping has become a trend because people are desiring an increased feeling of coziness and warmth in their homes.