Finding the right color to paint a living room to make it brighter and lighter is a design challenge worth taking on. The power of paint and color is enormous, and getting it wrong or right could mean ...

Not everyone wants to design a living room over and over again. While there are some who wouldn’t mind picking out paints and fabrics every few months—either because of their careers or hobbies—the ...

Q: One of my neighbors recently moved, and as a parting gift, he gave me an airless paint sprayer. I want to paint my living room. I have never used a paint sprayer before, but he did give me the ...

Repainting the walls in your living room is a simple way to transform the look and feel of the space. However, that ...

Benjamin Moore has 177 white paint colors listed on its website, Farrow & Ball and Little Greene both have 35, and Sherwin-Williams has 118 variations of white paint available for sale. Each brand's ...

Gray is the new beige for any room in your house, from kitchen to nursery. However, there's more than meets the eye when rolling one of the many shades of gray onto your walls. Some have warm red or ...

I’m going to paint my living room, and I want to wash the walls first. What’s the best cleaning solution to use? Probably the easiest thing you can try is a mild solution of baking soda and water. For ...

Apartment owner Amanda Mactas (@manhattantwist) is a voracious reader, and that’s clear in her design aesthetic, too. “I really like the feel of an old library, but I also love some elements of more ...

If your living room features intricate molding, herringbone wood floors or other architectural details, you can put your feet up and relax. At least from a design perspective, you don’t need to do ...

Q: I seem to be allergic to latex. I get a rash whenever I put on dishwashing gloves. But I want to paint my living room, so are there other environmentally safe options to latex paint? A: I am very ...

When Rosaline Elbay was apartment hunting in New York, the fireplace, brick walls, and large windows in the living room of this Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, apartment won her over. And she painted the ...