With the rise of smart homes and new technologies for everything from your appliances to your windows, it can be easy to forget about how one of the biggest design elements in your home—the paint—is ...

What are homeowners focusing on right now? Impactful, affordable upgrades. New research highlights that painting remains one ...

It’s officially summertime and the perfect time to start thinking about your home’s exterior. If you’ve been searching for a cost-effective, easy way to update your home’s curb appeal, but without the ...

Ashlyn is one of Forbes Home's in-house writers and a former civil engineer-turned content writer with over six years experience. Until recently, Ashlyn focused on creating content for Forbes Home as ...

Deciding what color to paint your house can be difficult, and with the trends shifting on a regular basis it can be hard to figure out where to start. Before you begin, it’s important to consider your ...

EVEN ACCOMPLISHED DIY-ers and veteran home-improvement wizards find paint projects so demanding and exasperating they outsource them to pros. Still, said Portland, Ore., painter Mike Snelson, “there ...

You can't click through Pinterest or Instagram lately without seeing white walls — clean, all-white kitchens, crisp white bedrooms, and bright living rooms as far as the eye can see. Classic yet fresh ...

Gone are the days of sterile, monochrome, professionally-painted living rooms. That airbrushed, photoshopped, Pinterest-perfect aesthetic is out (and we all breathe a sigh of relief). In 2026, we're ...

Though the term is used interchangeably with oil-based paints for most practical purposes, alkyd paints are actually not oil-based but alkyd resins mixed in some sort of thinner. When most people ...