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Painting Effects

Choosing a Paint Color

Before selecting a paint color, ask yourself the following questions:How will the...
Painting Techniques

Tom Eberharter, Martha Stewart Living's director of design and fabrication, joins Martha to...
Painting Prep

Many people rely on professionals to paint the interior of their homes, but if you have the...
Monogram Fabric

Tools and Materials Watercolor set, including brush 11-by-14-inch Yupo...
Painting a Room, Step by Step

Ready to give your walls a fresh coat? From the right tools to the best techniques, we've got...
Herringbone Chair

A midcentury-modern icon has a brush with tradition in this homage to herringbone, applied by...
Painting: Special Effects

Paint has the power to pick up the pace in a room. But to really get a space moving, you've got to...
Raw-Silk Wall

It may shine like raw silk, but this soft-blue wall with subtle stripes is produced by a pad of...
Space Solutions

Sometimes a room hardly works when it should be working hard. Fortunately, all it takes are...
Gingham Wall

The trick to re-creating this gingham pattern is to pull a potters rib (into which teeth have been...
Make Your Own Murals

Creating a mural can be a surprisingly simple way to personalize a space, with results far more...
Fine-Linen Wall

The sharp bristles of a horsehair flogger, drawn through a tinted glaze, creates the illusion of...
Downtown Office

Maybe your space and taste are less traditional and more modern. (Or maybe there's a man in...
Caned Bed How-To

Learn this painting techinque to create a faux-caned bed.
Grouping Mirrors: How-To

This charming collection is composed of frames in various shapes and sizes, unified by paint....
Painted Floors

Painting a floor can give form to a room where everything is function, offset the formality of...
Custom Color for Wood Floors

Custom Color for Wood Floors...
Bordered Chest of Drawers How-To

This Swedish-style bureau is painted in colors inspired by the Gustavian period. A glaze was...
Simply Colorful Nursery

A baby's room ought to be the happiest place in the house -- not only for the little one who...
Faux-Bois Dresser

An embossed paint rocker and a combing tool, dragged through a green glaze, leave a faux-bois (...