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Low sheen finishes hide imperfections but are hard to clean. Use them in low-traffic areas. Glossy sheens are easy to clean but highlight imperfections. Use them for high-traffic areas and trim. When ...

Painting your home can be a fun, creative and enjoyable process — especially if you’re really into interior design. And when deciding on what direction you want a certain room to go, choosing your ...

When your mom was painting a space, the rules were straightforward: flats on the ceiling, eggshell on the walls and gloss on cabinetry, windowsills and trim. Today those rules are more like ...

If you don’t know your eggshell from your semigloss, read this before you pick up a paintbrush. Welcome to Color Stories, a series where we look at how (and when) to be brave and bold with color—and ...

Designers reveal the best paint colors for low-light rooms—and why white walls can actually make them look worse.

We’ve all been there: We decide to paint a room, and weeks later our walls are still a crazy quilt of paint swatches. We’ve flipped through rooms on Houzz and Pinterest, and virtually painted the room ...

Not all paints are created equal. Back during the days of the horse-drawn carriage, paints used natural bases, of which linseed oil comes to mind. In the 1920s, that all changed with the ...