P icking the right paint color can be tricky, even if it isn't your first time. We've all come home with handfuls of paint swatches, creating a patchwork of chaos on our walls. However, paint ...

A page from Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l’eau e-corpus.org. Long before paint swatches lined the walls of hardware stores, people were still fascinated by color. In 1692, one ...

The power of red is undeniable, particularly when it’s the right shade of red. We asked a suite of architects and designers for their favorite red paint color and an example of the shade in-situ.