I’ve been asked a few times to recommend a “perfect gray paint” to readers and I have difficulty doing so only because there are so so many of them, and it in truth it really comes down to the style of your home, your taste, which direction your room faces in your home, its amount…
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Hi all, I’m still playing catch up today after vacation and working on several spaces right now behind the scenes, two of the room makeovers are for charity, and I’m trying to get all the details right, it’s a bit crazy! Meanwhile, I wanted to share you can now purchase Annie Sloan Chalk Paint online through my…
This weekend, I decided to tackle one of the 2012 Home Goals I set a few months ago, one of which is to pull together a conversation area on our balcony that overlooks the yard. Sadly, it’s sat there empty and neglected for too many years and I’m finally in the process of creating a…
I get a lot of emails asking for quick tips or advice on DIY projects or design dilemmas and when I get a chance, I like to answer some of them here instead of with an email reply. This latest one is from CC, and she writes, Dear Kate, “I have a 1960’s Thomasville china…
Hello all, thanks for all the nice compliments on the courtyard project! I’m going a little crazy this week coordinating all the details for our big weekend over at our Alma House charity project which starts on Friday. There are three rooms to tackle and so much to do! It may get a little bit…
This is one of those projects inspired by a fellow blogger and one I’ve had on the back burner for a long while. It was time I got my act together and cleaned up all the old paint cans in my house and rounded up all the colors in one post as well. I’ll get…
Hello everyone, today I’m over at My Colortopia sharing some insight on a topic many homeowners face. If you’ve got a big interior or exterior paint job on your hands that you don’t have the energy or capability to tackle all by yourself, then don’t miss these important steps for hiring a professional painter to…
My sister came to visit this past weekend and she only comes to visit a few times a year but when she does, great things happen. Mostly she makes me do what I need to do more of these days and that is take a break from the computer to watch movies and eat cookies…
Hi everyone, a question landed in my inbox last week about my favorite paints for furniture, here it is along with my answer: Dear Miss Kate, I can tell you like to paint furniture and you have been doing it for a few years, and I’m very thankful for all our tips. I see you…
Painting a kitchen table is an easy project! As long as you follow the steps, you’ll have a paint job that lasts for years to come! Today’s DIY project is about how to paint a kitchen table. I’ve been painting furniture and cabinets for years, but this time I tackled the painting of a kitchen…
There’s been an ongoing debate in our home for over a year about painting some dark wood cabinets in our casa. We have dark wood cabinets in our master bathroom and dining room, dark wood countertops in our kitchen and dark wood treads on our staircase too – all of them I love and would…
As one of the bloggers over at My Colortopia, I get to answer inquiries and write articles about choosing color for the home, which really is one of my most favorite topics in the universe ever. They asked me to write about my method for choosing paint color for walls so I’m going to share…
Anther great reader question this week, and one I’ve had a couple of times before. My mantra has always been if you don’t like an old tired piece of furniture you own, then paint it! Lots of people share that idea and want to reinvent their furniture with a coat paint but like Mina, they…