My experience with low VOC paint in my own home has been, well, less than stellar. Still, I am always on the lookout for great products, and as the industry demands better "green" alternatives, more arise. Like Mythic Non-Toxic Paint. Developed with help from University of Southern Mississippi, the paint not only has zero VOC's, but Mythic claims their paints "are better performing than any paint on the market today." It is great to finally see no VOC paints with texture options other than … [Read more...]

Last July, dB and I snagged our first home - an 80's ranch in need of some TLC. Many decisions needed to be made, and we had but one week between closing and moving in. Within that week, we had to: put a new roof on the house (and new chimney while you're up there) fix newly made hole in that roof that roofer created, then fell through paint entire inside of house and trim rip-up all the carpet in BR's and put in new carpet replace all polybutyline pipes throughout replace ALL plumbing fixtures … [Read more...]