Lauren has six years of experience writing and editing home improvement content. She covered lifestyle, DIY, design and cleaning at The Spruce for five years and contributed home improvement pieces to ...

A freshly painted room looks crisp and clean. But there's a lot more to getting that look than just the paint and your ability to roll and brush neatly. There are lots of small things that ...

Nearly every art student groans at the mention of still life painting. It’s often seen as a tedious exercise reserved for hyperrealists – or for those who’ve supposedly run out of ideas. But that’s a ...

Lee Wallender is a home improvement writer of nearly 20 years and specializes in home remodeling, repair and maintenance. Sami Allen is the managing editor at Forbes Home, with over seven years of ...

While the answer may not be a unanimous "No," for the most part, our days as hobbyist painters may be limited to some degree (it all depends on where you live), but they're far from over. The main ...

Painting with light—the process of illustrating or writing with light in a slow exposure photograph—is a pretty stunning effect that's surprisingly simple to accomplish. Here's how to do it. Get daily ...

Spend an afternoon at a painting class with friends, touching up the walls in your family room or doing crafts with the little ones in your life only to find yourself looking like a Jackson Pollock ...

You want your engine to shine when you pop the hood, don't you? For most hot-rodders, the engine is the whole point of building, driving, racing, or otherwise owning a kick-ass machine. But it's not ...

Needless to say, you probably don't need that extra half-bucket of cerulean blue paint you used in your backyard pool area for ... pretty much anything else. So, what can you do with it? Here, we ...