This is the first in the occasional “House Hell” series: Our homes are our most precious and scary possessions — precious only when they do not threaten us — but the threats are never-ending. What ...

They are like butt-ugly zits on your paint job. They might be evidence that your machine is driven and not just another garage queen, but regardless of how you view those chips, they are blemishes on ...

Painting is a gateway DIY for fledgling home improvement recruits—after all, you’ve probably wielded some version of a paintbrush since preschool and armed yourself with a roller at some point in ...