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When it comes to paint, a mirror-like smooth finish is traditionally as good as it gets. Yet the rise of interest in matte paint finishes has convinced Peugeot to throw that notion out the window.

Q. Some of the walls and ceilings in our older house have tiny cracks and other blemishes that make them unsightly. Is texture paint a lasting remedy for this? A. Texture paint, which usually deposits ...

Advocate staff photo by ELIOT KAMENITZ-- Jessica Mayhall does decorative paint finishes including milk paint, chalk paint, and stenciling, and teaches classes on it at Creative Finishes in Metairie, ...

Q:I live in a home built in 1979 and want to create a smoother surface on my walls. They were finished with a textured finish of long strokes of finishing mud, which I have heard called a skip-trough ...

When your mom was painting a space, the rules were straightforward: flats on the ceiling, eggshell on the walls and gloss on cabinetry, windowsills and trim. Today those rules are more like ...

Fresh paint can make a tired house look brand new, but it can also hide a rushed flip faster than any staging trick. When you ...

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