Color

North light is steady, cool and unflattering to about half the paint colors ever sold. Here is how to choose for it instead of fighting it.

Almost every disappointing paint job is an undertone problem, and almost all of it is preventable with three large samples and a week of patience.

Specify for year ten rather than day one, and a surprising number of the materials that photograph worst on handover day turn out to be the right choice.

After a decade of gray and greige, the palette has moved toward complex, slightly muddy colors with real pigment in them. Here is how to use one without repainting in a year.