Painting Ideas & Inspiration

Explore inspiring painting ideas that will drastically make your home more efficient & appealing.

Buying and Using Vintage Light Fixtures: A Complete Guide

Before you pick up a paintbrush, check out our expert guide to the best products, tools, and techniques for putting color on your walls.

Use a ready-made stamp and paint to give walls a unique finish. This guide explains everything you need to know about stamp wall patterns.

Brush on a chalk-and-eraser calendar, a tabletop canvas, canister labels, and more

Dreary white and drab beige might not make you happy—try out these mood-boosting colors in every room in your house.

Painting is a quick and affordable way to refresh any tired walls, floors, and rooms in your house.

New paint is the easiest—and thriftiest—makeover around. Find inspiring ideas for transforming your home with a bucket, brush, and roller.

Are you interested in changing the look of your wood floors? Learn how to paint and maintain them in this guide.

The quickest way to transform your littlest rooms? Take a high-impact approach with paint

This guide explains the process of using distressed paint and other clever antiquing techniques to re-create an aged look.

Our guide shows you how to use a color wheel to pick paint colors that complement your home’s decor and set the perfect mood for any room.

Strie mimics centuries-old painted woodwork

Two-tone patina gives a smooth wall the appearance of textured plaster

Stirred and shaken with alcohol, flakes are the way to go

Beadboard can give your rooms an elegant flair. Learn what kinds to look for and how to install them from the This Old House experts.

Read these 24 pro tips to ensure our walls and trim get a flawless finish.

Color can be used as a surprising counterpoint or it can vividly reinforce a building's design. Challenge your ideas of color.

What stands between an old house and new paint? Many tenacious coats of the old stuff. But you can get it off with these tools and techniques.

Clear coats are a great way to improve the look and durability of wood, metal, and concrete surfaces in your home. Read this guide for ideas.

Whether you’re shopping for an exterior acrylic latex paint or an oil-based paint, you can tell a good quality paint by its can.

A simple trick protects your paint job from impurities