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My rooms are all on the darker side, even my kitchen! I love them and, since we get a lot of sun, it's never gloomy, just dramatic! My workplace is bright and white so I like coming home to somethi...

from Apartment Therapy DC | Dramatic Dark Decor on October 20, 2009 12:12AM

I had those exact counters in my kitchen!- they even had the red line on the backsplash and black border on the counter edge. My house is 100 yrs old and the kitchen was probably the original kitc...

DO IT! I lived with white for along time (an effort to make the place clean looking for an appraisal), but when I finally decided to paint I found that the only colors that really looked goo...

I painted my house in Benjamin Moore's Cool Aqua last year and I love it. It 's not super high gloss but I used a finish that has a bit of a sheen. So much more fun and easier to wash- dirt hardly ...

It is amazing as a space, but I also find the whole man cave thing to be just a load of crap. I'm a woman, and I would love a room filled with movies, music, electronics, a computer and the l...

I don't really like cooking. I consider a chore that I have to do, so I think my kitchen should be as glamorous as possible! I consider it just another room. That said, while I love Miles Redd's ki...

sorry- putting- should use the preview button

I am puting in a new kitchen very soon and I am really considering a mirrored backsplash. I can see how cleaning would be hard but why not use a "vintage" looking glass? I have a vintage mirror tha...

I have always wanted striped walls somewhere and I just finished painting them in my mini sitting room. I love it, love it, love it.