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7 Calming Paint Colors to Create a Stress-Free Sanctuary Feeling stressed? A little color therapy might help. In such uncertain times, creating a beautiful home that serves as a safe and calm sanctuary is more important than ever. The right color has the power to make or break your mood so if you’re looking to bring a greater sense of calm into your life, it might be time to repaint. Science says certain colors can not only help you relax, but also help you feel less anxious and more balanced. So try one of these calming paint colors to bring insta...

Before & After: This Cloffice Makeover is Small Space Goals Like so many of us, blogger and mother of two Danae Freihoff found herself with a work-from-home partner during the pandemic. Her husband Sikmon’s job went remote in early 2020, when they thought his new WFH situation would be temporary. “Now it’s turned into two years of working from home with no end in sight,” Danae says. “It became clear he needed a larger and more permanent space.” Danae saw potential in an underused space, creating a cloffice–a closet turned office–with a fresh coat of ...

Leftover Paint Gave This Attic a Fairytale Feel Fit for a Two Year Old When Camille Simmons moved into her Crestline, California home with her family, she was yearning to transform the attic bedroom into a storybook space for her two year old son, Milo. “I wanted to play off the nature theme of our home and give him a fairytale-like childhood, but still keep it modern,” the Planning Pretty blogger explains. But, as if creating a bedroom that would grow with her child wasn’t already a tall order, Camille had to overcome two additional Herculean challenges: the ro...

5 Things I Learned When Painting My Small Apartment Madison Russell is a Style Editor who lives in Chelsea, Manhattan. Here she shares the lessons she learned when tackling her apartment painting project. I’ve been debating a fresh coat paint for every single wall, piece of trim and ceiling of my home since the very first moment I toured it at a Sunday open house in New York City. The place was beautiful, but the walls were a drag. Painted a dated light gray, the small place felt even smaller. There was so much light coming in from the windows...

5 Reasons to Skip the Hardware Store and Shop Clare Decorating your home should be exciting, inspiring and fun. But the one of the first steps in that process - paint shopping - usually involves a visit to the hardware which, let’s face it - is a huge hassle. Between trips back and forth to pick paint colors, bad lighting, bad customer service, waiting in line to get your paint mixed, then trying figure out what tools to buy, it’s enough to give anyone a headache! At Clare, we’ve flipped that terrible experience entirely. We make paint shoppin...

8 Easy DIY Home Projects to Try While You’re Stuck at Home When you’re spending a lot of time at home you want to love the way it looks and feels — and paint is an easy and affordable way to change things up. Better yet, it can be applied quickly and used in any size space, whether you have a large home, a small apartment, or something in between. Need some motivation to get painting? We rounded up some of our favorite DIY home projects from Instagram – and they aren't just limited to walls! This inspiring list offers tons of clever places to rol...

5 Interior Paint Colors for 2020 That Will Be Everywhere Paint fads come and go, but truly savvy color palettes always persevere. So, what to do when you want to pick out a timeless, yet trendy, paint color for your place? Instead of dictating a 2020 paint color of the year that no one really wants to buy (like every other paint company does), we looked to our data—think website page views, customer reviews, and social media engagement—to identify the most popular 2020 paint colors, and found some interesting patterns. From warm whites to moody blu...

5 Ideas For Office Decor to Create Your Dream WFH Space In addition to baking banana bread and drinking whipped dalgona coffee, home office makeovers are a cherished quarantine pastime. Just ask lifestyle blogger Kachet Jackson-Henderson of The Kachet Life, who recently turned an awkward flex space in her Dallas townhouse into her dream office and content creation studio. “I loved having a quarantine project; it gave me something to look forward to,” she told Clare. “Putting your energy into creating a dedicated workspace is definitely not wasted ...

Inside a Heartwarming Makeover Packed With Affordable Home Decor Tips After a long day at work, there’s no better feeling than coming home to great company and a space you love to spend time in. This idea rings true for so many of us, but for blogger Tina Cargill, it felt especially relevant for her brother this summer. “My brother has four children and is the sole provider for his family of six,” she shares. ”He is a UPS driver and works so hard, especially during COVID.” Although he moved into his home two years ago, the space lacked the personalized details...

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 ...

This Cozy D.C. Apartment Is Your Guide to Decorating With White Walls For Dominique Gebru, narrow hallways and an awkward floor plan weren’t enough to dissuade her from renting her Washington, D.C. apartment — it was the paint. “It honestly looked scary when I first walked through; I almost didn’t rent it,” she said. “The walls were painted this dark gray color, and it was just really grim.” Fortunately, the creative behind @dommdotcom was able to look past the gloomy facade and sign on the dotted line for the railroad-style apartment. Within nine months, she ...

6 Dining Room Decor Ideas That Will Seriously Impress Your Guests A dining room is arguably one of the most intimate areas of a home. Whether it’s a holiday feast or Sunday dinner, it’s a space where you sit down with loved ones to celebrate—and therefore should feel both warm and energizing. Interior designer Ashley Whiteside knows all about the importance of creating a cozy but charismatic dining room. Inside her family’s Raleigh, North Carolina home, she used an eye-catching color palette and complementary decor to transform a dark, three-walled dining r...

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...

Upgrade Your Kitchen with These Cabinet Color Ideas Calling it a kitchen makeover technically wouldn’t be correct, because Robyn from The Simple Sweet Life built this beauty from the ground up. The busy mom decided to turn her unfinished basement into a full guest space for her sister and brother-in-law, and it was a win-win, she got to have family close by and they got new digs. But Robyn had her work cut out for her, transforming a basement that got very little natural light into a space that feels beautiful and modern. Naturally one of the...

Three Bedroom Paint Colors For A Stylish Decor Update In need of a bedroom refresh? Our recent survey revealed bedrooms as the #1 space our customers are planning to paint, so we’re here to help with three bedroom paint color ideas that are sure to bring serious style into your space. At Clare, we're big advocates of choosing a paint color based on how you want to feel when you walk through the door, and there's no space where that principle carries more weight than in the bedroom. After all, it's the space where we retreat to at the...

7 Clever DIYs That Prove No IKEA Hack Is Complete Without Paint If there’s one thing the design community loves, it’s an IKEA hack. The Swedish retailer’s affordable and basic pieces are ripe for a touch of creativity—just look at Instagram or Pinterest to find all the ingenious ways people have added personality and character to their pieces. Take these IKEA hacks from the Clare community, for example. From Megan Zietz’s built-in wardrobe finished in Deep Dive to Peony and Honey’s next-level fluted dresser in Wing It, we’re endlessly amazed (and inspire...