I may have mentioned in the past that I love driving around and looking at homes. There is something so beautiful about a home that just shines from the curb.  Any home, from a tiny bungalow to a sprawling estate, can have that curb appeal star quality.  In my work helping people prepare their house [...]

I’m a morning person. If the day greets me with sunlight and singing birds, all is well in my world. What if I open my eyes and instead see gray, dark, skies? Or what if you’re not a morning person by nature?  Can we create that happy, perky, leap-out-bed smiling feeling with color?  Yes we [...]

Remember in the 2000s when we all painted our dining rooms red?  Red was the color of choice for dining rooms all across the World.  Dining rooms were the one room where you could really express your formality, even if the rest of your home was casual.  Red is an energetic color, and known to [...]

Right around February I start feeling overwhelmed and under-inspired by the dark skies, and lack of colors in the world around me.  Being in the Pacific Northwest presents a special challenge for a California girl like me. I love color, I love sunshine, both of which are in short supply in the winter in all [...]

The last thing you’ve probably got on your mind right now is Thanksgiving.  You’re busy with squeezing every last drop out of summer, with pool parties and baseball games, and entertaining outdoors.  You may not be thinking of Thanksgiving right now, but you will be.  Soon your attention will shift back indoors, and you’ll ask [...]

MyPerfectColor now offers any color in a minisize can of environmentally friendly zero voc paint. Using the new Benjamin Moore Natura paint, MyPerfectColor.com now offers pint-sized minican samples of any of its over 130,000 paint colors from over 100 paint brands. You can still choose the regular paint sample minican MyPerfectColor has always offered, but [...]

So what is the story with low voc paint? What does “voc” stand for and what does it really mean? These days the environment is top of mind for us all – from high gasoline prices to clean air and water – and using low voc Aura paint or zero voc paint is one way [...]

So you’ve decided to make the fabulous decision to use Benjamin Moore’s Aura paint- good deal. BUT because of the water borne colorant systems and the faster dry time, Aura has specific application techniques. So lets talk about the proper way to do that. Cutting In: *Use the same brushing techniques as you would for [...]

I love yellow colors. They are so bright and warm and inviting. But choosing the right yellow is really difficult. The colors always come out brighter than you expect. We found and used a color for our Kitchen and Great Room that we really love: Benjamin Moore 299 Firefly We’ve found this color to be [...]

Benjamin Moore introduced its new Aura paint line in the spring of 2007. At the same time, Benjamin Moore also introduced the new Affinity color collection. Customers are often confusion between Aura and Affinity and how they relate to one another. Hopefully this post will clear up that confusion. Aura is the name that Benjamin [...]