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  1. Paint Coverage 101: How Much Does a Gallon of Paint Cover? You’ve finally landed on the perfect color for your next painting project. Now, you’re probably wondering how much paint to buy. First, you’ll need to understand paint coverage so that you can get your interior paint estimate right. Every room has its own quirks that impact how much a gallon of paint will cover. Things like the condition, texture and porosity of your wall surface can make a difference in how much paint the walls will soak up. Below are the general paint coverage guidelines to...
  2. This Space is Proof That White Bedroom Walls Are Anything But Boring! When photographer Jordana Nicholson and her husband walked into the new main bedroom in her rental, she immediately knew that she wanted to upgrade the dull grey hue to white bedroom walls. “We really wanted to brighten it up and we felt that the current color was limiting our décor options,” she explains. So the couple went to their landlord to plead their case—and since they were looking to change it to a fresh, bright white paint, it wasn’t an issue. Here’s how the couple made this main be...
  3. Your 2020 Horoscope & The Perfect Paint Color to Match Interior paint isn’t just decorative--it can make or break the energy inside of your home and as a result, influence your quality of life. To help ensure you’re bringing the best vibes into your home this year, we reached out to astrologer extraordinare Tamerri Ater — aka the AstroFashionista — to find out what’s written in the stars for every zodiac sign and which paint colors can help make it happen. According to Ater, “2020 is not only the start of a new decade, but it’s a ground-breaking ...
  4. Forget Color of the Year — These 5 Popular Paint Colors Will Reign Supreme in 2021 Some paint color trends come and go, while some colors stand the test of time. Which is why instead of declaring a single paint color of the year that will surpass all others, we carefully poured over our sales data and customer feedback to identify our most popular colors, and how those color trends and preferences shift over time. After analyzing our 2020 data - from paint sales to page views and social media engagement, we discovered that customers are gravitating towards lighter, warmer c...
  5. 7 Dining Room Paint Colors That Defy Trends Let’s face it, our dining rooms are sort of the stars of our homes these days. If you’re whipping up a homemade dish or plating takeout, any meal feels a bit fancier when you’re eating it in your dining room. So, don’t wait to update it! A new dining room paint color on the walls (or even the ceiling) might be just the refresh you’re looking for. Ready to get inspired? Ahead, we’ve rounded up seven modern, traditional and experimental examples that embody unique and eye-catching paint applica...
  6. Our Founder Shares the Best Neutral Paint Colors For Every Room There’s a reason neutral paint colors are serious crowd pleasers. They play nicely with other colors and work flawlessly no matter how your style and home décor evolves over time. But don’t mistake their versatility for a safe choice — these stunning options will wow. Clare was founded by interior designer Nicole Gibbons, to make the process of finding the perfect paint color simple, with an easy to navigate range of designer curated paint colors. Here, she shares her top picks for the best n...
  7. Sophisticated Ideas For a Nursery, Courtesy of an Interior Designer Traditionally speaking, nurseries can be one of the most prescriptive spaces in a home. But Austin-based designer Kelsey Hutchins Flores of Flores & Company threw caution to the wind and followed her intuition when designing her newborn son’s sophisticated nursery. “We didn’t want it to feel super ‘baby,’ for better or for worse,” she tells Clare of her and husband Issac’s design vision. “We also didn’t necessarily intend on it being gender-neutral, but it just sort of ended up that way....
  8. Before and After: A Once Dark Bathroom Gets a Bright and Airy Makeover Two years ago, Kimber Romero bought her Craftsman-style home in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. Built in 1914, it was filled with all the charming details that originally made her fall in love with Craftsman homes: built-ins, molding and exterior trim. Over time, she made the space her own, updating it with her more modern, California style — plus soft textures, breezy colors and decor she picked up traveling. Now, it was time to tackle another project: her guest bathroom. By day...
  9. 7 Ideas for Kitchen Paint Colors to Try in 2021 Get inspired! We’ve rounded up some inspiring ideas for kitchen paint that feel both aspirational and attainable all at the same time — which is the perfect line to walk for a DIY. The right paint color can transform an entire room, whether it’s your house or a rental, and these smart tips and easy projects offer a huge design payoff without eating up your entire paycheck. Scroll to discover seven gorgeous kitchens in versatile, bright and eye-catching paint colors. A bold island upgrade A...
  10. 4 Elevated Tween Bedroom Ideas, Courtesy of a Designer Open floor plans, large-scale renovations, and tedious kitchen remodels register as some of design’s most formidable opponents. But creating an elevated yet playful bedroom fit for an ever-changing tween runs a close fourth. Just ask Erica Deputy, the creative behind design blog New Home Old Soul, who just finished redesigning her 10-year-old daughter’s bedroom this past November. The designer wanted to create a space that would evolve with her daughter, Blake, over the next five-plus years,...
  11. This Painted Brick Fireplace Turned a Dated Feature into a Dazzling Focal Point A fireplace is typically towards the top of the wishlist for pretty much every homebuyer. Not only an architectural focal point, it literally warms up a room. The trick is to look beyond what the real estate gods have given you and see its potential instead. When Kristen of @homewithharper, and her husband bought their new house they were thrilled to have a fireplace, but weren’t loving its deep brick red color. A painted brick fireplace was an easy solution. BEFORE “When we moved into our ...
  12. The Perfect Blue Paint Color Completely Transformed This Living Room! Here at Clare you know we’re focused on fewer, better paint colors. So on the rare occasion we decide to add a new paint hue to the roster, we love to get feedback from customers. We crowdsourced potential names and narrowed the finalists down in a playoff-style bracket. Meet one of our two new shades: Blue’d Up, a statement making purple-ish blue that feels rich and refined. Sandy of Ellee Home, a self-confessed Clare paint fanatic, recently used this stunning shade in her home and the resul...
  13. Before & After: The Sweetest Nursery Makeover Moving into a new home and getting settled is stressful enough, but when there’s also a baby on board? That most certainly intensifies the pressure to get your home in gear fast...which was exactly the case when we connected with Eliza Blank, founder of the ultra-cool plant startup The Sill who enlisted our help with making over her baby’s nursery. Eliza and her husband Steve recently moved into a two bedroom apartment in NYC’s trendy Tribeca neighborhood, and with the looming deadline of ...
  14. Painted Clouds Turned This Living Room Into a Dreamy Plant Paradise Plants are more like people than you might think. They need a handful of basic necessities to survive. Some are highly adaptable while some require specific conditions to look and feel their best. One thing’s for sure though: much like us, a plant’s environment matters. Painted clouds and tons of natural light sound like a pretty good place to start. Donovan Ho, the Bay Area-based marketer and plant guru behind @hothouse.jungle certainly seems to agree. His plant-filled condo was already o...
  15. How to Make White Walls Work in Every Room If you haven’t been following Megan Schlachtenhaufen and her husband’s gracefully paced renovation journey, on the blog Undecorated Home, then you’ve been missing out. Their DIY approach and professional-level results offer tons of inspiration. But there’s one specific characteristic of their decorating that really resonates with us: all white walls. It’s an unlikely choice for a lover of vintage with eclectic taste in home décor but it offers a lesson in why white walls can actually work in ...
  16. A DIY pro shares 7 lessons learned from painting her entire house When Deema Lopez isn't busy juggling a full-time job in politics, being a mom of two, or spending time with her husband, she's updating her newly purchased Los Angeles home, and documenting the process on her hilariously witty Instagram account. As the self-proclaimed “Queen of DIY Almosts,” Deema keeps it real, sharing the highs, lows and messiness of her DIY adventures with nearly thirty thousand followers. “I mess up A LOT, and I love to share my mistakes so others don’t make them,...