Here’s a really cool project from Katye, whose home office is covered in colorful “dots”, thanks to her creative ideas and painting. Here’s how she did it: I originally thought of the room idea to inspire me while I’m working at home. Bright colors stimulate the mind (reds and yellows are used in restaurants to make people eat more… pastels in kids rooms help calm children, etc..)...

I may have mentioned here before how much a fan I am of “the” IKEA… I may have mentioned it a lot.An IKEA-related site I stumbled upon recently has really become a favorite of mine. Jules runs the fantabulous IKEA hacker site - a blog featuring cleverly “hacked” items from IKEA. We exchanged emails recently, and I told her that I have a few hacks planned - because I do - but...

We recently turned my son Kaleb’s room into a world of aquatic goodness. Poor Kaleb spent his first six months or so in what was previously my home office. We finally moved the boxes, desk, and computers out to give him his own space. But he was left with shoddy red walls (leftover from a very inexperienced paint job from when we first bought our home six years ago,) and a room that didn’t fit...

The Fix Chicks have received lots of mail about Ralph Lauren River Rock paint. In fact, that’s the ONLY Ralph Lauren paint we get email about, even though we feature a room done using their Suede textured paint. See the original article and additional comments here. We’d like to thank Eric, who wrote in about a River Rock paint application solution that he and his wife, Erin, came up with. Dear Fix Chicks:...

It’s funny the little things that stick with you. As an art major in college, I was exposed to many ideas and techniques - and a wealth of information. I studied everything from the history of impressionist painting to the “easy” task of properly centering a piece of clay on a pottery wheel (something I never mastered, sadly.) But the most important thing I learned in college was this: listen...

Next time you’re bored, go to Google and type in “ralph lauren paint.” Yep, we’re usually near the top under that topic. Why? Because we wrote a couple of articles about the RL Paints we used successfully, and we keep a message board specifically devoted to that paint and the topics and problems associated with it. The odd thing is the number of folks who seem to think that we, the Fix Chicks, ARE Ralph...