Whether a room in your house needs a quick facelift or you’re renovating an older home, picking a color for the walls is usually the easiest (and most fun!) part. The tough part is the prep work.

Editor’s note: Welcome to the 57th installment of Brownstone Boys Reno, a reader renovation diary about renovating a brownstone in Bed Stuy. See the first one here. They also blog at ...

Paint removal usually requires a highly toxic chemical to get the job done, but for small metal objects, DIY site The Family Handyman recommends dropping your paint-coated hardware into a slow cooker ...

When you think of paint stripping as merely removing a coating from a base material, it sounds very simple. However, in reality, this process can be messy, time consuming, expensive, and can leave a ...

Editor’s note: Welcome to the 82nd installment of Brownstone Boys Reno, a reader renovation diary about renovating a brownstone in Bed Stuy. See the first one here. They also blog at ...

If you think stripping paint off an end table can be a messy, time consuming job, imagine removing paint and other coatings from an aircraft like the C-130 transport plane. Tasked with developing a ...