DIY paint projects are oftentimes the best place to hone your home maintenance and renovation skills. Beginners can find the right paint color and grab a brush or roller, but before getting started, a ...

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Whether tackling a home renovation or completing a craft project, your paint options are plentiful. While it's nice to be able to find a paint that's a perfect match for the task at hand, the number ...

Developed by Rohm and Haas in the 1940s, water-based acrylic emulsion technology filled a need for easy-to-use household paints for a growing suburban population in the United States following World ...

A fresh coat of paint has long been the route to a quick home rehab—today’s acrylic and latex paints are so easy to apply. But it’s become clear that those paints aren’t great for the environment, or ...

Which acrylic paint set is best? For anyone who feels the need to express themselves creatively, painting is one of the most satisfying hobbies around. You can choose from various types of paint, but ...

From the cave paintings of prehistoric times to the masterpieces of today, creating art with paint seems to be a fundamental urge in humans. The key to paint is the pigment, the substance that gives a ...

Though the term is used interchangeably with oil-based paints for most practical purposes, alkyd paints are actually not oil-based but alkyd resins mixed in some sort of thinner. When most people ...