My husband and I recently bought a house built just after World War II with rooms stuck in nearly every decade since. I couldn't wait to get my hands on it and make it our own. However, picking the ...

You spent hours choosing the perfect paint color and covered every wall with care. But years later, a touch-up is needed—and you can’t remember if the shade of green was Phantom Mist or Dinner Mint.

When you painted your home’s walls years ago, they looked amazing. The color was absolutely perfect, but now it’s faded. The problem: You have no idea what color you purchased for the walls all those ...

It’s an inevitability of home ownership that your walls and furniture will see normal wear and tear that require paint touch-ups at some point. But if you don’t have the original can of paint or color ...

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Paint jail. It's a known menace to our craft, one that has seen the demise of many a project. It's the car crafting version of a roach motel-cars go in but they don't come out. It usually goes like ...

Here's a fun fact to ruin your day: Your car isn't painted with "Toyota paint" or "Ford paint." If you've ever gone into a body shop after a parking-lot kerfuffle and demanded the shop use "genuine ...

Choosing paint colors can be an enterprise fraught with significant (other) danger and considerable expense. (Need proof? Consider the pyramid of too-bold, not-bold-enough, not-quite-right, paint cans ...

How many times has this happened to you? After spending hours agonizing over the perfect shade of paint, you gleefully coat every wall in your home in that shade. Then, years later, when there’s a ...