Repainting Wardrobe Doors: What Paint Holds Up?
My wardrobe doors get touched, grabbed, kicked open, and slammed shut somewhere around forty times a day in this house. I actually counted once, out of boredom during a rare…
Footstool Colors for a Teal Sofa
Everyone told me a teal sofa was going to be the hardest piece of furniture I’d ever own to build a room around. My sister in law said it, my…
Wall Colors for Rooms With Light Brown Tile
I’m sitting on my kitchen floor at eleven at night holding four paint chips up against my bathroom tile, phone propped against the cabinet filming because apparently I can’t do…
Bed Frame Colors That Stand Out Against White Walls
My sister walked into my bedroom in April, took one look at the new bed frame, and said, “Well. That’s certainly a choice.” Then she sat on the end of…
Flooring Colors for Light Gray Walls
I’ve got thirty eight flooring samples sitting in a milk crate in the back of my truck right now. Not swatches, actual samples, the six inch chunks of engineered oak…
Outdoor Light Color: What Suits a Yard or Patio
My sister Maddie walked onto my patio last June, looked straight up at the string of bulbs I’d just spent forty five minutes untangling and clipping to the fence, and…
Vanity Top Colors for a White Vanity
I currently have four white vanities in this house, and five vanity tops sitting on top of them, because the powder room got done twice when I couldn’t leave well…
Vase Colors That Flatter Red Roses
I bought six roses from the grocery store on a random Wednesday because they were marked down to seven dollars and I had a bad day at work that had…
Wall Colors for Rooms With Light Brown Furniture
Someone told me once that light brown furniture is the beige of the wood world, safe, forgettable, impossible to actually mess up because it goes with everything and therefore goes…
Bathroom Vanity Colors for Beige Tile
I painted my first bathroom vanity the exact wrong shade of white and didn’t understand why for about six months. This was my old apartment on Judah, the one with…