Adding color with paint is a quick and easy way to add style and personality to a living room, but get it wrong, and you could risk ruining the main room in your home. Color (even if you’re using ...

Lauren is a writer and architectural designer living and working in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to being a writer at Forbes, she works as a freelance architectural designer specializing in residential ...

Throw out the rules you thought you knew.

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From airy light blues to muddy greens, these are the most stylish shades to paint your living room this year ...

For most homeowners, learning how to paint a room is a quintessential part of maintaining or renovating a home. And, if you’re a beginning DIY’er on a journey of redesigning or updating your space, ...

Finding a paint color is tricky in and of itself, but painting a kid’s room adds another complicated layer to the design process. Now, it’s you and your little design assistant’s opinions both being ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Finding the right living room paint color can feel overwhelming. Not only are there hundreds of options, ...

For almost a decade, I’ve more or less worked happily from home at my kitchen counter. It was a perfectly fine place to be when I was the only one home. Since home became “Home” again, and the kitchen ...

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 ...