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  1. 5 Must-Haves For A Productive Work-From-Home Space A comfortable and stylish workspace can improve both your productivity and your mood. That’s why it’s important to carve out a home workstation that’s inspiring and energizing at the same time. To help make your home office more stimulating—and streamlined—we gathered five workspace essentials that can boost productivity. From task lighting to houseplants, read ahead for 5 easy ways to transform your home office into the stylish and savvy space it deserves to be. 1. A wall color to help you ...
  2. Make It Multifunctional! 5 Ideas For a Guest Bedroom to Maximize Your Space When artist and interior stylist Ashley Whiteside moved into her family’s Raleigh, North Carolina home two years ago, she had some ideas for the guest bedroom to make it more multifunctional. “Our home is only 1,700 square feet,” she explains. Devoting that much space to visitors didn’t make sense, so we transitioned it into a guest bedroom, home office and television room.” With the help of a versatile paint color, convertible furnishings and thoughtful decor accents, Ashley transformed the ...
  3. How to Paint a Ceiling Ceilings are known as the fifth wall for a reason. A fresh coat of ceiling paint can quickly transform the ambience of an entire room. But painting a ceiling can be tricky. Fear not—we’re here to help. From picking the right tools to avoiding spills, we broke down everything you need to know to paint your ceiling like a pro. What’s more, our ceiling paint has high hiding power to get the job done in fewer coats, and it comes in a flat white finish that reflects light, brightening up any roo...
  4. 5 Spaces With Black Walls That Will Make You Reconsider the Dark Hue The design world has been fixated on minimalistic, white-walled spaces of Scandinavian persuasion for the last few years. But the below rooms designed by Clare customers will inspire you to consider the darker end of the color spectrum when designing your home. Using our two deepest neutrals, Blackish and Blackest, these design enthusiasts prove that black walls have a place in bathrooms, bedrooms, and living spaces alike. Whether you add a lick of black paint to kitchen cabinet fronts or go ...
  5. 5 Versatile Boys’ Bedroom Paint Ideas That Will Grow With Them With two young children — and seemingly less and less space to live in — DIY enthusiast Camille Lai decided to convert her family’s two-car garage into a proper bedroom for her sons, by employing some savvy boys’ bedroom paint ideas. “The boys’ bedroom was actually our garage,” she explains. “We built it out about a year ago to accommodate our growing family, and we’ve all been happy with the choice.” By using the right paint color, our violet-blue hue, Blue’d Up, and multifunctional decor ac...
  6. 5 Bathroom Decor Ideas on a Budget, Inspired By This Moody Makeover Brown may seem like an unlikely color choice for a bathroom. But Mackenzie Craven’s thoughtfully designed guest bath makes a quiet case for this bold, 70s-inspired hue. “Brown is back!” she declared in her Instagram post unveiling the new look with Dirty Chai. “This rich, moody hue is just what this little bathroom needed.” The versatile brown proved to be the perfect palette cleanser for the compact bathroom — and just the inspiration she needed to further update the space. After a few more...
  7. Go Bold With These 5 Eye-Catching Ideas For a Small Bathroom Remodel When Camille Lai decided it was time to give the guest bathroom in her 1960s bungalow-style Florida home a major remodel, the first order of business would be modernizing the space. “All the ‘bones’ of the bathroom were very dated, including the tile and the tub,” she says. “We had already completed some minor updates, such as the vanity fixture and toilet bowl, but even those were starting to look dated.” After checking off some impactful ideas for a small bathroom remodel — replacing the fl...
  8. This Bright Family Room Transformation is a Breath of Fresh Air! It’s no surprise that a small room with no natural light would get dubbed “The Man Cave." But the dark taupe paint color, huge stone fireplace and lack of windows made the den an avoided room in Hannah of Thistle Harvest’s home. BEFOREAFTER Most of us can relate: you start to learn to live with and work around features you can’t stand. But sometimes, turning that problem room into a space you love is as easy as adding white paint and some natural light. After a stunning transformation, H...
  9. How to Paint Furniture: The 4 Tips You Need to Know After an inspirational trip to Charleston, Desiree from Beautifully Seaside, came back and wanted to cozy up her home by repainting a few furniture pieces. Her inspiration? A warm gray color she kept seeing everywhere in the charming boutique hotel she was staying in. After searching for the perfect paint color, she came to Clare and found just the right shade—Seize the Gray—and ordered it in our semi-gloss finish. Armed with the perfect color and a few good painted furniture ideas, she start...
  10. Meet Our Newest Paint Color—Daily Greens! We're so excited to introduce our newest paint color! Meet Daily Greens—A suggested serving of splendid color. Get your daily fix with this mossy green hue that’s the secret to a well-balanced space. Daily Greens launched recently in collaboration with our friends at Pinterest as part of The Goods by Pinterest – a shoppable collection of limited-edition and exclusive products from brands you love, hand-picked by the Pinterest team. Previously only discoverable via Pinterest, Daily Greens...
  11. Our Swatch Packaging Just Got More Sustainable At Clare, we work hard to make things better and better over time— whether we’re simplifying color palettes or helping you upgrade to zero-VOC, GREENGUARD Gold certified paints. E-commerce leaves lots of room for improvement, like reducing packaging waste and making shipping more efficient. So, we redesigned our swatch packaging to minimize materials and lower our environmental impact. Before Our previous packaging, while it looked beautiful, consisted of two separate paper items — an outer ...
  12. 8 Incredibly Stylish Paint Ideas For Doors A fresh coat of paint is a quick and inexpensive way to breathe new life into your home. But you don’t have to limit yourself to the walls — a lick of color on an archway, shelf, or door can infuse personality into your space in a single weekend. Take the below paint ideas for doors, for example. With a few coats of strategically-placed paint on interior doors and trim, you can add visual interest to a space and make your entryway, kitchen, or bedroom feel that much more personalized. If you’...
  13. The Best Paint Color For Your Zodiac Sign Whether palo santo or sage or a good old horoscope reading are your preferred conduit to positive vibes, it’s important to remember that not all energy is created equal. That’s especially true when it comes to color. We consulted Ophira Edut of the AstroTwins – astrologers and all-around good vibe gurus – to get the scoop on how colors impact your energy, and to find out the best zodiac colors for your home. According to Ophira, “colors carry vibrational energy and wavelengths. There’s a vib...
  14. Think pink: step inside this unexpected kitchen makeover After six years of living in her apartment with her boyfriend, interiors photographer, Jess Isaacs, decided to update her standard issue 90’s-style kitchen. Since she rents her home she didn’t want to undertake a full-scale remodel, but couldn’t stand having a room in her house be neglected for so long. Instead she decided to embrace its existing style and tweak it to make it a space she could truly love. Here are some details on how she realized her brand new pink kitchen in just two days. ...
  15. How Painting Bathroom Cabinets Can Transform Your Space in a Weekend If you’re feeling a little blah about your bathroom but aren’t ready to commit to an entire overhaul, here’s an easy way to refresh the look of the entire space—repaint your bathroom vanity. Since the vanity is one of the largest and most prominent elements in the average bathroom, a fresh coat of paint can be an easy way to impact the overall feel of the room with minimal work. Painting bathroom cabinets is much easier than you think especially if you’re working with high quality paint. Do...
  16. Go Beyond the Beige: Living Room Paint Colors for Every Style Show your living room some love! The easiest, least expensive way to change the look and feel of a room is a fresh coat of paint. Since the living room is where, well, you’re living, or at least spending the majority of your time, why not make it representative of your personality. Go bold with one of our nuanced living room paint colors. Don’t worry about versatility — if you choose the right hue you’ll have endless decorating options and a new color can make the furniture and accessories yo...