If you've just moved into your home, or even if you've lived there for years, you may be considering an interior renovation project. New homeowners like to personalize their home with a color scheme that either matches their furniture or their particular decor. Even long-time homeowners like to change things around. Sometimes, an entirely new [...]
A fresh coat of paint can be a great way to spruce up your home. It can provide an entire room with a new look even if the color change isn't a drastic one. Looking at a number of painting ideas before you go shopping for a color or texture can be a good plan [...]
Coweta Courthouse We at The Paint Doctor appreciate fine work and, thus, wanted to draw your attention to a beautiful restoration of the 107-year-old Coweta County Courthouse in Newnan, Ga., which was first listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The Classical Revival style courthouse was designed by James Wingfield Golucke, who [...]
Home-renovation projects continue to be in the plans of many American homeowners this year, and painting figures in many of those plans, according to recent results of the American Express Spending & Saving Tracker Many homeowners say they’ll continue to opt for the “DIY“ approach, according to the sampling of the spending and savings habits [...]
From dark natural finishes to green color palettes, from the Shaker style to quartz materials, a newly issued survey identifies the hottest design trends in the kitchen and bath marketplace for 2011. More than 100 member designers of the National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA) participated in the survey, which was intended to reflect trends [...]
Many of you enjoyed The Paint Doctor’s blog post about Honeysuckle as the color of 2011, but just as many of you asked us how color forecasters picked it, and some of you wondered what colors are ‘hot’ for spring. Before we help answer those questions, it’s important to keep in mind that designers view [...]