As I put a ladder up against the front-porch roof one day last month, my neighbor shouted from across the street, “Painting the house?” “Nope,” I said. “Painting the gutters.” She was perplexed, ...

While out navigating the holiday rush you can also get a jump on spring cleaning under a new statewide paint recovery program. The Paint Stewardship Act, which went into effect Monday, lets residents ...

The first apartment I rented as a poor twenty-something had crappy wood floors that were painted brown, a fact I never much thought about until years later, after I bought my first house and had to ...

New car paint scratches more easily due to thinner, softer, water-based clear coats, which are a result of environmental ...

A dime store hobby turned most everyone into an artist. The popular paint by numbers after some 71 years since the first kit was introduced at the 1951 New York Toy Fair is still a very popular ...

From scraping to sanding to priming to painting, it’s delightful once you figure out how to avoid the pitfalls. Painting an old chair: harder than it looks. Credit... Supported by By Tim Heffernan ...

A protective finish is applied to keep paintings safe from wear, but they will discolor as a result of time going by. About two hundred years ago, someone coated a 1618 oil portrait of an unknown lady ...

It has been a colorful sticking point at the State House for years, but legislation to set up a paint can recycling program ...

Mural conservators are working to uncover 20 angels hidden under layers of paint for more than a century at the Boston church made famous by Paul Revere. Gianfranco Pocobene has been working atop ...

A man wearing a grey sweater and holding a paintbrush with white paint on it in the sunlight - Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images Recent interior paint trends feature lots of neutral colors and ...