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  1. You’ll Want to Copy this Living Room’s Calm, Coastal Color Palette Jess Zocal and her family of eight live in a Colonial-style home in North Carolina, near the sea. Her recent living room makeover reflects a fresh take on a classic coastal color palette, and it’s an oasis of calm. You wouldn’t know it at first glance, but this sophisticated space is also a showcase of thrift store finds and clever budget solutions, plus, a foundation grounded in our airy blue best-seller, Headspace! An unexpected coastal color palette Paint is the starting point for everyth...
  2. 5 DIY Projects You Can Do with a Quart of Paint At Clare, we’re on a mission to make paint shopping easy and inspiring. And what’s easier than a paint project you can pull off in an afternoon? Our new paint in quart-sized containers is perfect for small paint projects and quick weekend updates. We’re so excited to debut paint quarts and see you put them to use—our community has been asking for them since we launched! Need some DIY inspiration? Here are a few small paint project ideas to inspire your next refresh: Give your furniture a face...
  3. How One DIYer “Whipped” Up a Luxe Bathroom Makeover on a Budget When searching for the perfect shade of white paint for their Nashville home’s bathroom makeover, photographer and mom Jordana Claudia, along with her husband Trent, were feeling overwhelmed with options at their local big box store. ”It’s actually crazy how many shades of white there are at other brands. It can make your head spin,” Jordana says. Determined to avoid the color overwhelm induced by traditional paint brands, Jordana found her perfect white paint at Clare, falling in love with W...
  4. In with the NEW! Meet Extra Virgin, High Vibe, and Like Buttah Inspired by the trending colors our customers loved most in the past year, we’re so excited to introduce the latest additions to the Clare color lineup: Extra Virgin, High Vibe, and Like Buttah. Elevating but not out of reach, these three hues are all about inviting a sense of optimism into your space—plus they’re adaptable enough to pair with just about anything! Here, read all about our newest colors, plus a few bright ideas on how to use them in your next refresh. Extra Virgin Meet your n...
  5. 5 Inspiring Room Makeover Ideas to Steal from Instagram We all have that project on our to-do list that we keep putting off. How about some spaces to inspire and motivate you? Even better – these creative and inspiring room makeover ideas from Instagram start with one simple step: picking the right paint color. From quick lifts to manageable renovations, each project gets progressively more involved. Get inspired and get going. You got this! Dress Up Your Dining Room Before @samcramdesign After @samcramdesign In this remarkable transformation...
  6. 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...
  7. This Finished Attic Before and After is a Must-See To call the Hollywood-inspired finished attic designed by Raleigh-based firm CAROLYNLEONA “multi-functional” is an understatement. The space–which originally stored nothing but Christmas decorations–now includes a guest bedroom, bathroom, home gym and movie theater. “And we did work a small storage room into the design so they can continue to store holiday decorations here,” Liz Goldberg, designer and founder of CAROLYNLEONA, says. Using a palette of Whipped, Windy City and Deep Dive, Liz cr...
  8. A Charming Mural on the Wall Welcomes You Into This Creative Studio If anyone knows how to take a tricky space and make it look exceptional, it’s Clare Collective ambassador and designer Lauren Hom. So the tall, narrow entryway leading into her creative studio? It was just another opportunity to have fun with color–and of course, as is Lauren’s signature move, to paint a cool mural on the wall. Before Lauren decided to revamp the entryway, she was using it to store canvases and it was starting to feel cluttered. “I wanted the entryway to feel considered, and ...
  9. This Dining Room Accent Wall Makes Money Moves When deciding which color to paint her dining room accent wall, Jenn Osias turned to Instagram. “Honestly, Clare has so many beautiful colors and I love the color green, so it was pretty hard to pick. I browsed the #shareyourclare hashtag to see other examples of people using the green shades in their homes. I was thinking Dirty Martini, Grayish, and Current Mood were options at one point. Then Clare released Daily Greens and it was back to the drawing board,” she says. Lost on which color to...
  10. Painting a Wall Mural is Easier Than You Think–Here’s Proof! When faced with the prospect of a dull bathroom with no natural light, Clare Collective ambassador Lauren Hom got creative—per usual. “For a while I thought I could get away with trying to put a houseplant in there,” she says. “But they kept dying, so my solution was to paint a plant instead. I chose an eclectic tile so I wanted to keep the mural simple, oversized and graphic.” Painting a wall mural is a great alternative for putting wall art in a high-traffic, small area like the bathroom, ...
  11. Wanna Make Your Living Room More Colorful? This Reno Will Inspire You! Photo by @langthomasinteriors When designer Gretchen Rose first moved into her home, she painted every space in a creamy shade of white. “I wasn’t ready to commit to color until we’d lived in the house for a few months and learned how we wanted to utilize each space,” she tells us. Before But after deciding on how she wanted the layout to flow (what’s now her living room was originally the dining area), white walls didn’t feel quite right. “The room felt void of character and personality,”...
  12. This Patterned Guest Room Is Bursting With Pink Decor Ideas When you hear the words “pink bedroom,” you might picture a sweet child’s space complete with a dollhouse, but pink is more versatile than you’d think. Designer and artist Bari Palles-Ackerman is a master of the shade, and she rarely sticks to the design rulebook—as evidenced by her elevated guest room, painted in Rosè Season. “I just love pink in general, regardless of the space I'm designing,” she shares. “I wanted people to feel excited to visit and stay in this guest room.” In keepin...
  13. This Pantry DIY Makeover is Packed with Organizing Ideas Valeria Jacobs is a very busy woman. When she’s not running Rebecca & Genevieve, a home decor store named after Valeria’s mother and grandmother, she’s creating content, being a mom, a designer, and completing various DIY projects in her own California home, the first of which was a fireplace transformation. “That first project completely changed the look of the fireplace for under $100,” Valeria says. Inspired and armed with confidence from the fireplace project and the Internet–You Tub...
  14. What Happens When You Let Your Best Friend Design Your Bedroom Boston-based design bloggers and friends Jess Klein and Emily Starr Alfano are constantly sharing snippets of their projects on their respective Instagram accounts. But in the spring of 2020, they realized they each had a room that never saw the light of day on social media: Emily’s main bedroom and Jess’ guest room-slash-nursery-slash-home-office. “These rooms sat untouched for so long that they basically became a design Achilles heel for both of us,” says Emily, whose narrow space was incre...
  15. 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...
  16. This Pink Bathroom is Brimming with Functionality Working at Semihandmade as the Brand Marketing Director, Samantha Cuello sees more design and renovation projects than most during her day-to-day. Inspired to revamp a tiny guest bathroom in her family’s Beacon, New York home, Samantha called on designer Jacklyn Faust for help renovating and updating the space. Samantha knew the first order of business would be maximizing the pint-sized existing bathroom. “The original footprint of the bathroom was tight and hardly functional,” she says. “The...