Fixer Upper stars Joanna and Chip Gaines shared their best paint color tips, renovation ideas, flipping stories, and more. Here's everything one writer learned from the HGTV stars at their paint, design, and renovation workshop.

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All 36 Annie Sloan colors on different color blocks. Display wall in the paint work-space at Project 1. Thank you Adjectives Market for the inspiration.

This window display is an example of repetition as it consists of four of the same paint cans pouring over the same pair of shoes, with only the color of the paint changing. This use of repetition makes the shoes more emphatic and more important. It also leads the viewer's eye and creates a sense of motion.

Thousands of pigments fill glass vials below the slatted wood ceilings of the new concept Pigment, an art supply laboratory and store that just opened in Tokyo by company Warehouse TERRADA. The store design was created by architect Kengo Kuma, utilizing bamboo and large open spaces to create a sense of unity with the outdoors andContinue reading "A New Japanese Painting Supply Store Lines its Walls With 4,200 Different Pigments"

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After the Dwell prefab popup party at SXSW Eco this past October, we spent the next Saturday checking out a number of modern homes and happenings around Austin, where we stumbled with delight upon TreeHouse, the new green hardware store company with a focus on design that's already earned a local tagline as the "Whole Foods version of Home Depot." We toured the store and the next week back in San Francisco, caught up with TreeHouse CEO, Paul Yanosy, to chat.

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