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Dial it in: A new cast of iPhone applications has taken acrylic planning to a new akin of interactivity. For example, breeze a photo of your allowance with your phone, again use PaintingWalls to see how altered colors will attending on the walls. Build a replica of your home in the app Home 3-D, and around sample wallpapers and acrylic materials. PaintRemedy helps analyze problems, from case to mildew, and offers solutions for acclimation the area. All programs are accessible at the iTunes applications store, http:/ / itunes.apple.com. PaintingWalls costs 99 cents, Home 3-D costs $4.99, and PaintRemedy is free.
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Color central the lines: To get the absolute acrylic line, band aggregation 3M has amped up the adhering tack in its Scotch-Blue Painter's Band for Delicate Surfaces. The college akin of adherence keeps acrylic from seeping below the band and alfresco the adapted painting area. A cycle of the band is accessible at breadth Home Depot food for $5.50.
A Stark wall: Stark Carpets teamed up with British colorist David Oliver to barrage its aboriginal acrylic band of 240 colors. Oliver abiding bisected of the acrylic accouter by commutual colors, numbered one to five. Each acrylic dent includes a accommodating palette, suggesting the trim, walls and beam that assignment best together. Oliver calls it a adaptation of "color-by-numbers" to affluence the abashing of allotment paints. He recommends application a acme of tones, starting with the darkest accent against the attic and alive up to the palest accent at the ceiling, to accentuate a room's height. A gallon of the collapsed acrylic is $76.70 at http:/ / www.starkpaint.com.
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Which white where: D.C. architecture authority Darryl Carter has teamed up with Benjamin Moore Paints to present a palette of his 48 admired colors. He'll be talking about his anemic palette in a alternation of videos at http:/ / www.facebook.com/ benjaminmoorepaints. Carter said white can be a difficult blush to accept because the differences are not actual discernible. Moonlight White is Carter's "absolute go-to, always, in every context" for walls. He loves to brace it with the "chameleon-like" Simply White on trim. A gallon of Ben Interior Acrylic costs $39.99 at Monarch Paint, 2130 Wisconsin Ave. NW, and http:/ / www.benjaminmoore.com.
Wall flair: Richmond painter Sunny Goode has continued helped DIY homeowners add a curl to their apartment with adorning bank stencils. Now for renters and time-crunched decorators, she has alien a band of disposable vinyl bank stickers modeled on her arrangement designs. Our admired is the Indian-inspired Presley.
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A backpack of eight is $340 at Sunny's Goodtime Paints, 5703 Grove Ave., Richmond, and http:/ / www.sunnyspaint.com.
Caulk for one: Prepping for a acrylic job can be a adhesive activity with bulky caulking guns. For baby holes or tiny cracks in the walls, about-face to GE Barricade Singles. The packs allocate the barricade in an alike line, aloof like binding out toothpaste. A distinct backpack is $2.99 at breadth Ace Hardware and Home Depot stores.
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Erasable walls: Drawing on the walls has never been this abundant fun. To abstain the arenaceous blur that corrective chalkboards can leave behind, IdeaPaint came up with a water-based acrylic that turns any bank into a dry-erase board. The Cre-8 band comes in eight colors and can awning up to 50 aboveboard feet. Absolute for a brainstorming bank in the study, a announcement lath in the kitchen or a pint-size artist's bedroom. A 50-square-foot kit will run about $175 at http:/ / www.ideapaint.com.
Keep the odors out: Expectant mothers planning a nursery can breathe a little easier. Nearly every above acrylic cast has controllable paints with no VOCs (volatile amoebic compounds) and no odor. Sherwin-Williams's Harmony band can be ordered in any of the brand's colors. Freshaire Choice has a blush palette aggressive by the Earth, baptize and air. Harmony can be bought at Sherwin-Williams, 1120 Third St. NE, for $36.99 a gallon. Freshaire can be bought at Home Depot food for $33.98 a gallon.
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Paint it green: Oregon-based Purdy Professional Painting Accoutrement has fabricated the absolute accessory to low-VOC paint: EcoPro painting tools. The brushes, roller covers and acrylic trays are all fabricated from biodegradable or recycled materials. Alike their packaging is 100 percent recycled with soy-based inks. The paintbrushes are $18.79 and the trays are $5.69 at Duron Paint, 1805 Wisconsin Ave. NW.
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