Like many local hardware stores, mine is a hodgepodge of stuff, with drawers full of nails and sacks of peat moss stacked near the door in spring, replaced by bags of salt in winter. The paint, ...

Britain’s Farrow & Ball has a beautiful new book out — “How to Redecorate” — that dives into the fascinating world of color and paint, a subject few could make as interesting as Joa Studholme, color ...

Friendship Heights, the neighborhood known for its string of status European boutiques, is adding an upscale British paint store. Farrow & Ball, purveyor of paint to stately homes and a favorite of ...

Several years ago, I painted a bathroom in my house a rich, smoky blue. Everyone who sees it asks for the color name. When I answer, “Benjamin Moore’s Gentleman’s Gray,” the questioner inevitably ...