The Moors came from Africa and established a kingdom in southern Spain. Mainly of Arabic and Berber descent, their cultural designs have inspired designers centuries later. The mystery and romance of the Arabian Nights and the splendid palaces, arches and furnishings seen in museums and buildings throughout the Mediterranean world, still lend themselves to Moorish [...]

Finding the right paint color to get from For Sale to Sold!
Conventional wisdom dictated for years that when you sell your home, the first thing you need to do is paint all the walls white. I sold a home in California several years ago, and the first Realtor that wanted my listing told me [...]

MyPerfectColor now offers any color in a minisize can of environmentally friendly zero voc paint. Using the new Benjamin Moore Natura paint, MyPerfectColor.com now offers pint-sized minican samples of any of its over 100,000 paint colors from over 100 paint brands. You can still choose the regular paint sample minican MyPerfectColor has always offered, but [...]

I love dessert!  Cakes, cupcakes, brownies, pies, cobblers, you name it — I love them all.  I love dessert almost as much as I love paint. As I savored the orange sponge cake with strawberry filling that I’d baked this afternoon, I thought about the colors and textures of desserts, and wondered why can’t we [...]