How Paint Color Affects Mood: Designing Spaces for Calm, Energy, and Focus
You walk into a room and feel instantly relaxed. Another space makes you feel energized, ready to take on the day. And yet another helps you focus and concentrate. You may not always notice it consciously, but chances are, the paint color on the wall...
The Best Windowless Bathroom Paint Colors May Surprise You
Bathrooms, especially powder rooms, Jack-and-Jill bathrooms and basement loos, are often dark. That means you’re faced with picking windowless bathroom paint colors, which can be a challenge for these potentially drab spaces. Here’s how to choose...
The 8 Best Paint Colors for Studying & Learning
If you're a student, teacher, or a parent helping kids with homework, you may not have thought about how paint color can affect learning. But just as colors impact mood, they can also enhance memory and improve focus. Here are some of the best colors...
7 Beautiful Home Library Paint Colors
Home libraries are often peaceful retreats—but that doesn’t mean the color palette has to be predictable. You can create a reading area in your home office that reflects your personality and draws color from your home decor, from the walls to you...
Paint Colors for a Finished Attic
Converting your attic into a living space? This article can talk about lighting (lamps, windows/skylights, etc.), the size of the space, what it will be used for and what furniture you're using may all influence your color choice. Are you conv...
How To Use Japandi Style in Your Home
At first blush, Japanese and Scandinavian design seem as far apart in appearance as they are on the map. But if you dig deeper, you’ll find a surprising number of similarities, with overlapping themes like a use of natural materials, and a focu...
Bring Midcentury Modern Paint Colors To Life At Home
Midcentury modern paint colors span a rainbow from happy to earthy, depending on their placement on the timeline of the 1950s and ‘60s. After World War II, a housing boom brought what we think of as midcentury modern homes today – streamlined...
Wall Cleaning: How to Clean and Maintain Painted Walls
How long has it been since you marked "wall cleaning" off of your to-do list? Like all of the other surfaces in the house, walls need regular cleaning, especially in busy areas where scuffs, stains and dirty marks can make them look run down. ...
Get Washable Interior Paint Ideas for Messy Rooms
If you’ve got kids, you’ve got messes. Even walls aren’t safe from little hands or feet – let’s not forget those floor-level scuff marks. What’s a parent to do? Why, check out these washable interior paint ideas, of course. Here’s w...
Meet PPG Paint’s 2023 Color of the Year the Beautiful Vining Ivy
Meet the 2023 PPG Paint Color of the Year, Vining Ivy, a robust teal that balances between blue and green. Symbolic of the deepest water, this rich, tonal aqua works for contemporary and traditional styles, marrying them as beautifully as it does...