How to Choose the Perfect Ceiling Color for your DIY Painting Project

Choosing the pefect ceiling paint is as simple as mixing 3 parts of white paint with 1 part of your wall color

  Choosing  a ceiling paint color is almost as hard as choosing a wall color. After all, the ceiling is just another wall if you look at your room as a cube.  So many times ceilings are painted white because most people feel it gives the appearance of a higher ceiling.  While in most cases [...]

Painting High Areas Requires Proper Equipment, Usually

Homemade scaffolding is not a good idea

Yep, painting in high places, those that a standard ladder can’t reach, requires proper equipment. What you see above is NOT proper!  That’s my adorable husband on his homemade scaffolding.  Don’t try this.  RENT scaffolding. I scolded him and reminded him that one fall and he could lose his vocation. Yes, I know there’s only [...]

I Painted My 1970′s Master Bedroom Bathroom Counter And I Love It

Yes, the blue color above is the countertop we've lived with for 22 years.

 When we purchased this house in 1988, we hated the already out-of-style master bathroom. Of course, like most first-time home owners, we ticked off a list of things we were going to change to make it “ours”.  Then reality set it.  New house, two kids, and full-time daycare costs meant there was very little [...]