In Scotland, some homeowners will paint their door red when they pay off their mortgage!

With warm, spring weather FINALLY upon us, it's that time of year when I really start getting serious about home improvement projects and repainting rooms that need updated. I thought it would be useful to give you all a little cheat sheet of terms used when buying paint. In the first post in this mini-series we'll talk about sheen. Sheen: the measure of how much light a paint reflects. 1. Flat: paint absorbs light and so it hides a lot of imperfections. It's most often used