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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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.

I don’t ordinarily ask the creatives I interview which design trends are gay. In fact, I would have guessed questions like that are offensive. But when talking to Nicholas Scheppard and Jenson Titus, Founders, Co-Owners, and comedians who paint at Very Gay Paint, it feels like the right thing to do. Helvetica? So very straight (but thank you for being an ally). Compostable packaging? Gay as hell. (“I’d go so far as to say queer,” Jenson said.) A pastel color palette? Nicholas

This is how to organize paint supplies and be more funtional. The best way to organize paint and supplies is to be able to see everything.

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