Painting Our Foyer Edgecomb Gray
The deed is done. Behold, our freshly painted foyer: It feels about a foot taller and at least two feet wider than it did before. Ah, the p…
Painting Ideas and Projects
Painting your home (both inside and outside) doesn't have to be complicated! Here's how to pick the right paint color, choose the right paint finish, avoid annoying painting mistakes, learn how to paint your cabinets (or even paint an appliance like your fridge) and much more.
Upcycling A Secondhand Bathroom Light
But before we get to that: an armadillo in the bathroom. Let’s talk about it. Everyone needs one, right? I mean, we can argue that a lot of…
Painting A Bathroom Vanity
Let’s talk about vanity, shall we? Specifically the sink vanity that we last left off as primed in this post. This is one of those real-lif…
Painting The Back Of Your Front Door A Bold Color
Alternate post title: Paint Me Like One Of Your French Girls. Yes, much like Rose once begged Jack, the dusty blue back of our front door w…
How To Paint Trim Without A Paint Sprayer
“I’m Blue Da Ba Dee Dabba Da-eeeeee” (anyone remember that song?). Picture us maniacally singing it while priming and painting trim for hou…
Priming & Painting The Bathroom
When we last shared our hall bathroom adventures, we had removed the old wallpaper and were left with this: Not only were the yellowed wall…
Changing A Door Knocker And A Doorbell
How about a post about hunting for knockers? Nope, not those knockers. This is just the follow-up we promised yesterday about updating our …
How To Pick A Color And Paint Your Front Door
“The door is the smile of the house.” John likes to make strange declarations like that. For example, after talking about how both bacon an…
Picking A New Siding Color & Updating Our Exterior Trim
As if all the blue and mauve trim on the inside of the house isn’t enough, we had some outside trim that needed some attention. When we bou…
How To Use A Paint Sprayer On Trim & Doors
If we’ve made one thing clear about our new house, it’s that we’re not crazy about the trim colors… Somewhere between the Williamsburg Blue…
How To Paint Exterior Siding
Remember back when we debated painting the siding on the front porch way back here in fall 2011? Hence the creepy Halloween wreath on the d…
Painting Our Kitchen A Soft Blue Color: Colorado Gray
Can I get a kitchie kitchie ya ya da da? (name that song) Also, we painted the kitchen. SURPRIIIISE! We’ve mentioned that we’ve been flirti…