“Exterior house painting is usually more expensive ... vastly different types of paint—for example, replacing an oil-based paint with a water-based paint—if there is damage to your walls ...

Oil-based paint dries to a smooth ... It can instantly transform an older house and give it a clean, modern look. Flat paint is the most porous finish type, meaning it’s not very durable.

Regular painting is also a necessary component of every home maintenance schedule. Painting an entire house is a highly worthwhile, yet daunting, project. An average-sized home takes 120 hours to ...

It’s the heart of the house, and the heart wants art ... “vintage still life” … “old oil painting” … “vintage French art.” I needed no convincing by this point, I needed ...

When Spanish paint company Graphenstone launched a collaboration with Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum in April, it took inspiration from objects in the museum’s collection—from the off-white in ...

As I put a ladder up against the front-porch roof one day last month, my neighbor shouted from across the street, “Painting the house?” “Nope,” I said. “Painting the gutters.” ...

This disaster made the artist “determined to bring it about that the sun should never again do such great damage to his works”—and so he invented oil paint. “He saw that mixing the colors ...