Key Points Bold colors like bright yellow, dark purple, and teal often overpower rooms and feel too intense.Cool tones such ...

This story is published in cooperation with Willamette Week and Miller Paint. In the years since I moved into my house, I’ve dabbled with color and learned a hard lesson: Paint can be tricky. So when ...

You might think stress comes from work, money, or lack of sleep—but your walls could be quietly contributing. Color ...

With 20 years of experience under her belt, Nichole has used her background in homebuilder marketing and building product manufacturing to help people understand the design and construction process, ...

Melissa is a writer who focuses on home design, trends and projects. She covers content for a variety of sites to help readers navigate everything from finding the right interior color palette to ...

To add a bold splash of color to your space, watercolor mural accent walls are the rising trend. While you could put up watercolor wallpaper, you can opt for a truly unique mural by painting one ...

It’s an inevitability of home ownership that your walls and furniture will see normal wear and tear that require paint touch-ups at some point. But if you don’t have the original can of paint or color ...

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 ...

If you’re looking for color inspo, consider the following list of our editors’ favorite paint colors of 2025; they range from dark and moody to light, bright, and spunky to boot. No matter which ...

You may have decorated your home according to feng shui, the traditional Chinese practice of arranging your home's furniture and decor to promote harmony, balance and peace. The way you decorate your ...