If you own a home with wood floors, you know that with all of that beauty comes a lot of upkeep. The finish likes to scratch when you move furniture or whenever your crazy dogs and cats get zoomies around the house. And when your wood floors get super scratched up, you may think sanding […]
If you have a staircase with blank sides and want to make it look like a traditional ornate paneled staircase, you’re in the right place! When I bought my 1914 Craftsman home, it had a staircase inside that was added in the 1990s and made to look like a Craftsman staircase… to a point. And […]
Green has always had my heart, and it’s the shade I ultimately chose for my own home’s exterior. It strikes that balance of feeling peaceful yet lively, which makes it a timeless option outside. That said, picking the right exterior green can be tricky. A color that feels perfect on an interior wall can shift […]
If you want to use a blue paint color in your home but you don’t want it too dark or so light that it’s almost white, medium blues have you covered. Medium paint colors fall in the Light Reflectance Value (LRV) range of roughly 40–60, meaning that they reflect roughly half of the light that […]
What makes a light blue “light” in terms of paint colors? Its Light Reflectance Value (LRV). That’s the scale used to determine how to classify the lightness or darkness of paint colors, and it’s based on how much light a paint color reflects back on a scale of 0–100. The general understanding is that dark […]
Medium greens don’t get enough praise. As a dark green lover myself, I rarely venture into the medium shades, but there are some good ones out there. And I may have a few bookmarked for a future project…! But first, what is a medium paint color? It’s a color with a Light Reflectance Value (LRV) […]
