Posts Tagged: ‘paint’

Apt. Makeover: My Bathroom

Posted in Projects on March 28th, 2010 by Anne E. Collins – 7 Comments
Puple Bathroom

Obsessed with wallpaper, I had the perfect plan for the bathroom. I found a fabulous red magnolia print from Graham and Brown to go above the chair rail and I matched one of latte-colored leaves for the paint below. Though, as you can see, this paper is not on the walls. The day the painters came ...

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Finally, Refinished Furniture

Posted in Projects on November 5th, 2008 by Anne E. Collins – 1 Comment
two piece Vanity

Flash back to three weeks ago and my backyard was a DIY testing ground for nine painted-furniture projects. The paint has since dried, the hardware been screwed back on, the bugs picked out of the air-dried paint, and the furniture has been moved inside. Some of the projects were just paint touch-ups and others, you'll ...

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Finally, The Paint Palette

Posted in Projects on September 2nd, 2008 by Anne E. Collins – 1 Comment
paint-palette

Choosing paint is the first step in laying the foundation of home decoration--a basic concept but agonizing to execute. As you may remember from a previous blog, I wanted to take the tangerine color from an Antonia Hutt dining room design and paint my kitchen with it. It was so dramatic and delicious but a ...

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How to Decorate with Orange Walls?

Posted in Projects on July 15th, 2008 by Anne E. Collins – 3 Comments
AntoniaHuttDiningRoom

The juicy orange walls of this Antonia Hutt dining room have been on my mind ever since we posted it in Met Home's story Mad about Saffron. And if a paint can stick in my mind that long, I think I need to buy it by the gallon (I have an email into the designer ...

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