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  1. Introducing Our New Paint Colors: Blue’d Up and OMGreen! NEW paint colors have landed at Clare! Thanks to your input in the Clare Paint Playoffs, we’ve added not one but TWO new hues to our color roster. Meet the newest additions to our blue and green color families: Blue’d Upand OMGreen! Blue’d Up Could this be our new color crush? Our fans certainly think so! Thanks to your votes, this violet-blue hue took the top spot in our color competition and it’s not hard to see why. Blue’d Up is equal parts sexy, spellbinding, and statement-making. It’...
  2. Dark Green Paint is the Perfect Complement to a Vintage-Filled Space Renovating a historic home is not an easy process. But somehow, blogger and creator Kate Pearce of @katepearcevintage manages to make it feel seamless—and wildly chic. A native of Long Island, New York, Kate and her family recently moved into a 1899 Queen Anne-style home in Chicago. Filled with expertly curated antiques, tons of color, and eclectic accents, it’s the vintage-lover’s dream. Her curved living room is the latest to receive a makeover, and our dark green paint Current Mood provide...
  3. Get in Project Mode: Two Fun Ideas for Painting a Dresser Have an old dresser sitting around that doesn’t feel quite right in your space? Don’t kick it to the curb. Give it a new life with a new coat of paint—a DIY you can easily pull off in a weekend. Plus, it’s the perfect project if you’re on a budget—just pick up one of our quart-sized cans of paint, which will only set you back $24. And if you need extra motivation, we have a couple of bright ideas for painting a dresser here, all thanks to talented Clare Collective ambassadors Ashley Whitesid...
  4. This DIY Geometric Accent Wall is the Happy Medium Between Minimalist and Maximalist Clare Collective ambassador Lauren Hom doesn’t shy away from bold hues—and has the colorful rooms in her home to prove it (a green and yellow kitchen, to be precise). “I’m normally all about adding energy to my spaces, but the exception in our home was the living room. With so much going on in the rest of the house, we wanted a space that felt calm,” she says. “Plus, my partner is more of a minimalist, so the goal became to combine both of our styles.” Before The couple started out unsure o...
  5. Cabin Decor Ideas From A Vermont Hideaway If you’re renovating a rustic home or just dreaming of bringing some cozy calm to your city apartment, look no further than blogger and mom Jess Ann Kirby’s Woodstock, Vermont retreat which is chock full of inviting cabin decor ideas. When Jess and her partner Craig bought the home, it was dated and painted in colors Jess describes as “dark or drab.” “We wanted our house to feel bright, warm, and inviting while also functional for a family with a toddler and pets,” she says. This meant findin...
  6. This Beige Bedroom Is Anything But Boring When Clare Collective ambassadors Jordan and Barry of the Brownstone Boys decided it was finally time to update the ground floor apartment inside of their Brooklyn brownstone, their goal was to transform the cold, colorless space into a warm and cozy beige bedroom. “The last renovations were completed more than 10 years ago,” Jordan says. “Everything was white on white on white.” With the permission of their friend Kimberly, who rents the space, the duo set out to revamp the room without brea...
  7. Green Wainscot in This Bathroom Gets the Vibe Just Right “If you look at my portfolio, I really do love neutrals,” admits designer Jessica Smith. “I mean, I pretty much paint all of my walls white.” But when she spotted the wainscot in the bathroom of her most recent project—a historic home in Jacksonville, Florida she and her husband currently lives in—she was inspired to add a pop of color. “There was something about the trim work on the wall,” she explains. “I wanted that to be the focal point.” Since Jessica wanted to create “a soothing environ...
  8. Warm Neutrals Reign Supreme in this Cozy Kitchen When Ruthie Jackson first set out to renovate the dated kitchen in her family’s 1935 colonial revival home, she had one goal in mind. “I wanted to create a functional and charming space we could enjoy as a family,” she says.Since the bulk of her budget was devoted to updating the plumbing and appliances, she relied on simple yet impactful switch ups—such as painting the walls and cabinets in warm hues and replacing the retro shag carpeting with geometric floor tiles—to revamp the kitchen with...
  9. 5 DIY-Friendly Ideas for a Guest Bedroom That Don’t Skimp on Style When the pandemic hit, Ruthie Jackson decided it was finally time to revamp the dated guest room in her family’s 1935 colonial revival home. “It had been a very long time since that side of the house had been used,” she says. “I wanted to create a cozy retreat for guests.”Though her budget was tight, she employed a handful of affordable high-impact upgrades—such as reupholstering the bed and painting the walls in Views, a soothing shade of green-blue—to update the space without breaking the b...
  10. 4 Modern Entryway Ideas to Create a Grand Entrance When Lauren Ashley’s clients—a young family in Texas—wanted to upgrade to a larger home, they didn’t have to look far to find the perfect property. As luck would have it, the client’s parents were hoping to downsize, so the young family packed their bags and moved into the childhood home. “It was like a house swap,” explains Lauren, who owns LA Weddings & Interiors. Lauren's clients wanted to give this family home a wow-factor from the moment you step inside, so they set out to renova...
  11. This Warm and Cozy Bedroom is Giving Us Serious Fall Feels When Jess Oliver Baggett decided it was time to revamp the guest room in her family’s 1930’s home, she knew the first order of business would be brightening up the space with a fresh coat of paint. “The walls were scuffed up from artwork and I wanted a clean slate,” she says. “The goal was to create a calm and cozy bedroom to retreat to after a long day.” To start, she painted the walls in Like Buttah, a warm shade of buttery beige, for a neutral backdrop. “I tend to switch out decor and text...
  12. Excuse Us While We Geek Out Over Trending Paint Colors for 2023 Picture it. After rounds and rounds of swatch tests, you’ve finally decided on a paint color, bought the supplies, put in hours of rolling and brushing and perfecting every last detail—are you really going to switch things up all of a sudden because a new “color of the year” just dropped? Secret’s out: Paint color trends don’t really work that way. People tend to be choosier, committing to hues they’ll want to keep around long-term. Being paint perfectionists ourselves, we totally get it—and...
  13. How a Duo of Living Room Colors Made Sense of a Tricky Open-Concept Space When it came to choosing the perfect living room colors, artist, stylist and Clare Collective ambassador Ashley Whiteside had two goals in mind: optimizing natural light and creating cohesion in her open-concept downstairs space. Needless to say, the colors also had to align with her bright, personality-filled style—heavy on vintage and thrifted finds, bold artwork and an inventive mix of patterns and eras. Before “I couldn’t leave it boring, or ‘builder’ beige, or the yellow that every par...
  14. This Dark Green Bedroom is a Lesson in Small-Space Design When Clare Collective ambassador Orlando Soria began redesigning the primary bedroom inside his Spanish style bungalow in Los Angeles, he knew he had his work cut out for him. “The bedroom is only about 10 feet wide by 15 feet long,” he says. “I knew I was going to have to be strategic about design elements.” Before For Orlando—who previously shared a king-size bed with his 60 lb rescue pooch Sadie—this meant downsizing the furnishings in the room, and employing a paint color that made a st...
  15. Why Blush Pink was the Best Dining Room Color for this LA Bungalow When Clare Collective ambassador Orlando Soria set out to update his two-bedroom Spanish-style bungalow in Los Angeles, he knew the first order of business would be finding the best dining room color. Though he prefers living in older homes because of their architectural ornamentation, the dining room’s stark white walls weren’t doing the moldings any justice. “I wanted to try something different with color, that didn’t negate the architecture.” Along with the unflattering paint job, Orlando ...
  16. 3 Tips from an Artist on Decorating a Small Room Decorating a small room can be tricky. There’s less space to work with, and it can be tough to find furnishings and accents that align with the size. But a small space means there’s a big opportunity to get creative, which is exactly what Clare Collective ambassador, artist and stylist Ashley Whiteside did in the petite powder room in her North Carolina home. Ahead, read Ashley’s smart tips for decorating a small room. Tip #1: Go Bold with Color There’s no place like a small bathroom to go...