Best websites for paint advice
These sites provide advice on choosing paints, colors, and brands, and one even features a “tool for virtually painting rooms.”
Colourlovers.com helps visitors choose paints wisely. Its “massive ranges of palettes and patterns” encourage combining hues, so you can get creative without clashing with “your favorite plum chaise.”
Housebeautiful.com, the home page of the décor magazine, features PaintBrush, a “tool for virtually painting rooms.”
Consumersearch.com includes reviews of paint brands and varieties from Consumer Reports, DoItYourself.com, Paint Talk, and Contractor Talk. The site also helps you locate stores that carry the brands you’re looking for.
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Paintquality.com has “one-stop shopping for all do-it-yourself” projects. The site provides guidance on everything from “calculating how much paint to buy” to “solving paint problems such as blistering and mildew.”
Source: The Washington Post
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