8 Painting Tips and Tricks That Will Make Painting SO Much Easier!

So, maybe fun is stretching it a bit, but these tips will certainly make painting easier and much more enjoyable. But before you even start painting, use these tips to choose your paint color and then make sure you’ve prepped your room like a pro!

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I think you either love to paint or you hate to paint… or you tolerate it. Ha!

Anyway, over the years, I ‘ve painted quite a few rooms… like when I painted my dining room orange and then white with a modern herringbone stencil, or my office hot pink and then white with a cool geometric sharpie design. I’ve discovered some very helpful tips and tricks to make the process easier, and I couldn’t live another day without sharing them with you guys. I felt like I was totally holding out on you.

So here goes.

Tip #1: Hammer some holes in the lip of your paint can.

When you pour the paint, it can go everywhere. It drips all over the sides and then dries hard as a rock on the edges. When that happens, not even King Kong himself could pound that lid down hard enough to close it securely.

So grab your hammer and a large-ish nail and poke a few holes there in the lip. Or the divot. Or the well. I wasn’t sure what to call it, but I think you get it, right?

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Home Decorating Styles

You've just built your new home or are considering a kitchen or bath remodel, and it's time to start thinking about decorating. Choosing a home decorating style can create a coherent theme for your room and your home, in general. Rather than simply choosing a countertop, floor covering, or cabinet, you can look at how these different choices are interrelated and design a truly stunning home décor. Look at some of these more popular home decorating styles to get ideas of what you might do with your new home, kitchen, or bathroom.

Southwest Décor

Southwest décor is defined mostly by a room's furnishings—its furniture, throw pillows, sculptures, pottery, and other smaller decorating items. Yet, for the best-looking décor, you should start planning your room long before the finishing touches. For a kitchen styled in southwest décor, hand-crafted pottery and cabinet hardware dominated by earth tones isn't going to look as sharp above a cold linoleum floor. Stone tile floors and/or countertops are going to set the foundation for your decorating scheme. Hardwood floors using wood indigenous to the southwest and ceramic tile that resembles the clay earth is also an authentic choice. Your choices for different installations aren't going to be seriously limited by the southwest décor, but you need to start planning for your decorating style long before you go shopping for dishes, bath towels, or coffee tables.

Tropical Décor

While tropical décor is about giving your room a tropical atmosphere, it's also about a lot more than palm trees. If you live in Minnesota, you can't put a fake palm tree in the corner of your living room and call it tropical décor. Exotic hardwood floors are a great idea if you can afford it, but other exotic flooring such as cork flooring can also work within a more reasonable budget. Tropical ceiling fans are among the best ideas within tropical décor. They are energy-efficient, invoke the tropical atmosphere, and generate more air circulation than traditional ceiling fans. Saltwater aquariums, especially customized home aquariums, can also be a part of this decorating style. Just remember to decorate your home with the aquarium, not like an aquarium. Subtle, authentic decorating accents are the way to make a room stunning with tropical décor.

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