You know that wearing dark-colored clothing in the sun attracts heat, while lighter colors help reflect sunlight. The same is true for your home’s exterior paint. In fact, darker-colored homes absorb ...

This story is published in cooperation with Willamette Week and Miller Paint. In the years since I moved into my house, I’ve dabbled with color and learned a hard lesson: Paint can be tricky. So when ...

What’s the best color to paint your house? It depends, according to experts who say color choices should be based on factors including the style of your home, landscape, neighborhood, roof color and ...

We were a house divided. More to the point, we were a house color divided. Four residents (sorry cats, you don't get a vote), four different opinions. Make that at least 24 different opinions, ...

YOU MAY never amass the capital to build a pile like George Vanderbilt’s 35-bedroom Biltmore Estate, in North Carolina, but you can match the sumptuous color of this wealthy aesthete’s bedroom walls.