If you've ever been stumped by the daunting task of choosing a color palette, buying paint equipment, or attempting to DIY a tricky wall or floor treatment, then allow Sunset Make It Your Own: Paint & Color: 50 Easy Weekend Projects to be your guide.
The book is chock-full of handy how-tos for painting everything from floors to a faux headboard. Still, painting tips are just a portion of this design tome's offerings. It also introduces others ways of decorating with color, including steps for hanging fabric or creating wallpaper accent walls. We pored through the pages to round up our top eight pieces of expert advice to share. Keep reading to discover why we're hooked on the book and how you can tackle these projects for your own home!
A nursery should be a calm oasis for both mom and tot, so picking a paint color is more than just a random decision. Not sure how to make it calm? Glidden makes it easy with its Brilliance Collection of paints. From dark brown to minty green, the collection's colors were carefully selected by Glidden's own director of color marketing, Barbara Richardson, to ensure parents can pick the most soothing colors for their baby's room.
Along with including classic baby colors, the hues are balanced with unexpected options that make picking the right color for your tot's room a bit more creative, but still geared to baby. And these colors are made to stand the test of time, growing with your lil one over the years. Click through to find the perfect color for your future nursery as well as a few items we feel complement the painted walls.
Get out the spray bottles: this craft will have your tot spritzing away! Along with making something really colorful, this activity will get all those little hand muscles moving, perfect for building fine motor skills. Learning how to spell your name is a big toddler accomplishment, making this activity perfect for encouraging letter writing like a pro.
Your child will also explore color theory, seeing what happens when the primary colors (red, yellow, and blue) mix together! Do this project outdoors, which makes cleanup as easy as a hose down. Click here for the directions!
Go ahead, write on the walls! Is chalkboard paint becoming passé? Maybe. Turn the walls of your kiddo's room into a wipe board with this inventive paint that allows for doodling with dry erase markers. The scribble space can come in handy for solving homework problems, relaying messages, and unleashing creativity. And, you don't have to clean up piles of loose paper!
Available in nine neutral shades — white, light gray, off white, light beige, gray, light green — and a poppy orange color, the CR8 water based IdeaPaint covers 50 square feet of space for $175. The HOME variety (also water based) comes only in white and sells for $30 (for 6 square feet of coverage) and $60 (for 20 square feet of coverage).
I've been swooning over these Sergio Rossi paint splattered pumps ever since Alicia Keys wore them to the BET awards. They're an artistic confection just waiting for me to sink my toes into them. However, I'm not rich like Alicia and am not willing to spend an extraneous amount of money on such a novelty shoe.
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These Blank Splatter Cut Off Shorts ($85) sure take the worry out of getting your whites dirty. I present to you a colorful, pre-splattered artistic mess. Short shorts couldn't be more of a hot mess. What do you think?
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