Color Match Phone App from Benjamin Moore

Thanks to Ben Color Capture you can save yourself a headache when choosing the perfect color match for your home design projects. Whether you need to match an existing color on your walls or you want your living room to resemble a fresh picked melon in your fridge you can use this app to match the exact color for you from the 3,000 Benjamin Moore paint colors!

All you do is snap the photo, tap the screen on the color area you want to match, and voila it pulls up a full range of matching colors. You can even give the phone a little shake and it will show you complimentary colors! Oh and it'll show you where the closest BM location is.

You can thank me later... check out all the details here and pick up the app in your app store.

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Design A Room, some great resources for decorating

I'm sure there are plenty of you that have grand ideas of home remodeling and decorating but it's often hard to picture the outcome. Well there are a lot of great things on the interwebs that can help you! Better Homes and Gardens has a great program called Arrange A Room where you can adjust every aspect of the room including furniture and even house plants to give you some help with your decorating ideas.

You pick the shape of your room, which you can adjust, and then start adding in the furniture. You can even change the colors! All you need is your email address and then you can get started.

Now if you're like me and have a heck of a time picking out the perfect paint colors there is also a wonderful program you can use through Sherwin Williams that will show you the paint choices on real walls in real rooms. You can adjust from there and change trim colors, ceiling colors, etc. It's called the Color Visualizer and I highly recommend it the next time you're looking to redecorate a room!

~5280 lady

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Week of Freebies: Eco Fin Deck Stain

One of the best things you can do to maintain a new appearance on your deck is to keep up with the stain and seals. Regular maintenance like this will keep your deck looking brand new for years and save you costly repairs or worse, having to replace the entire decking surface.

Sun Frog has come out with a new wood staining product, Eco Fin, which is made from soy products and is a low VOC wood finisher for interior and exterior applications. You can use it not only on your deck but also on furniture. It protects against abrasions, sun, and water damage. Less than 2% of the can contains VOC which means a minimal carbon footprint. It comes in a variety of colors and tones and can even be used as a tint base for non Eco Fin colors.

Head over to get your hands on some Eco Fin and tackle two birds with one stone, home maintenance and eco friendly living!

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