This story is published in cooperation with Willamette Week and Miller Paint. In the years since I moved into my house, I’ve dabbled with color and learned a hard lesson: Paint can be tricky. So when ...

A phenomenon called metamerism causes paint colors to shift appearance under different light sources, making store chips unreliable guides. Color saturation intensifies as surface area increases, so a ...

Color consultant Renate Ruby’s discerning eyes slid past the stripes of color I’d swiped onto the entry wall of my home—kaleidoscopic evidence, in hues ranging from eye-popping saffron yellow to mealy ...

The pandemic triggered all sorts of upheavals in residential real estate. But whether we stayed in our apartments or left the city for the suburbs or second homes — and maybe have since returned — we ...