Home Matters
These expert-approved hues may be the secret to opening up a minuscule or cramped-feeling room. The right paint color can accomplish a lot — it can flatter everyone in the room, help bring good energy to a space, and even keep you from getting sick. And luckily for small space dwellers, a well-chosen wall hue…
Designers Leigh Anne Muse and Lili O’Brien decorated a warm Spanish Colonial Revival house using only creams and browns. MIMI READ: I’ve only been to Richmond once before, and it seemed chockablock with Georgian houses. Maybe I blinked. Are there lots more of these exotic specimens? LEIGH ANNE MUSE: Not at all. Richmond has many…
There’s no shortage of online tutorials about painting furniture. And I’ve used a lot of them to paint dressers, console tables, chairs, mirrors, and more. But I have found issues with a lot of these tutorials — the paint chips, the finishes aren’t smooth, the paint peels — you get the picture. I’ve had to…
A professional furniture restorer shares her secrets on making repairs that last. Crystal Dvorak has been fixing, creating, restoring, and upcycling furniture for more than 20 years. The owner of Urban Patina in Shakopee, MN, she’s seen every problem a piece of furniture can have. And she’s fixed them. These are some of her tried-and-true…
Owning a home is a keystone of wealth… both financial affluence and emotional security.