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Interior House Painting Preparation Steps -- One of the biggest parts of interior house painting is the preparation. If these steps aren't followed properly, mishaps will occur. Professional painters learn early that the key to a successful paint job is the interior preparation.
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Using Color Tricks in Home Décor -- Just as a painter uses color to fool the eye and to create mood in fine art, so the designer can use color to fool the eye in home décor. Here are a few tips for the creative DIY designer (that's YOU!) dealing with problem spaces.
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Decorative Wall Techniques are Choosing and Mixing Colors to Apply on Your Wall -- Whatever the age and style of your home, consider the whole house when you plan your color and paint finish schemes. You’ll be happiest with the results when you plan decorative painting as a part of the overall interior design.
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Pickle Green or Passionate Puce? How to Select the Right Color for Your Room! -- Did the yellow paint in your room seem like a wonderful, sunny choice two years ago, but now reminds you of two day old eggs? Is the harvest orange seem trendy? The dusty plum seem elegant? And did that certain shade of green that seemed restful yesterday seem faintly reminiscent of moldy algae? Then it is time to find the right color for your room!
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Ready to Paint Those Kitchen Cabinets? -- So you have decided to do it! Turn those dull and lifeless kitchen cabinets into a splash of bright color! Yellow! Red! Purple (What are you thinking)! You can make the job an easy one (well, at least not a grueling one!) by following these steps.
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Ten Effective Ways to Deal with Low Ceilings -- So here's the low down! Low ceilings can make a room seem claustrophobic and smaller than it really is. If you feel as if the weight of the world is on your shoulders when you walk into your home, here are some ways to raise low ceilings to new heights (at least visually!)
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Five Easy Tricks for Handling Problem Rooms -- Do you have a room that's just too much? Too long? Too narrow? Too tall? You can camouflage that problem space with a few visual tricks!
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Painting Concrete Floors -- The first time I saw a painted concrete floor, I was amazed! It was beautiful! It is the perfect solution for an inexpensive floor that will last and last. If you want to try this money-saving technique in your home, here’s how (but I warn you, this is not a one-weekend project!)
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Painting Wood Floors -- If you don’t like carpet, your wood floors are a mess, and you can’t afford new hardwood flooring, you can make even plywood floors look good with paint. Hmmm...now I take that back! I have seen floors in my husband’s bachelor pad that were beyond help or human habitation!
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