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Hömm Certified Painting Systems
H?mm Earns 2011 Coveted Angie’s List Super Service Award
H?mm, Certified Painting Systems Earns Coveted Angie’s List Super Service Award Award reflects businesses’ consistently high level of customer service H?mm, Certified Painting Systems has been awarded the prestigious 2011 Angie’s List Super Service Award, an honor bestowed annually on approximately 5 percent of all the businesses rated on the nation’s leading provider of consumer reviews on [...]...
Pure Home
Daily Design Delight: New Uses for Old Teapots
I bet you didn't know that old teapot gathering dust in your cabinet could be your next awesome DIY project! Check out these 6 ways you could use an old teapot to create something new and fun for your home. See Full Post...
My Perfect Color
February is the perfect month for taking up with the color red. Valentine’s Day and love are often celebrated with red roses and red boxes full of chocolates, right?! But what other emotions does red evoke? Red is an energizing color, strong and powerful, and full of drama. Red is thought to increase heart rate [...]...
Shearer Painting
C2 paint exterior house painting
House Painting project in Seattle, Washington Inverness neighborhood. C2 exterior satin and semi-gloss paints on this residential repaint project. The home had not been painted in 15 years. See more pictures of painted doors See more orange paint on doors, trim, and walls...
Painting in Partnership
Craftsman Tips for Painting Speaker Covers
Painting parts of the electronic systems, in home and office environments, present special challenges to the interior painting craftsman. In the past week, I had the pleasure of meeting John Baumeister of Tech Tonic at a networking function. As a technology consultant to owners of buildings, John takes his work very seriously. At some point [...]...
United Home Experts
Glossary of Roofing Terminology
Deck/Sheathing: The wood product-usually rough lumber or plywood -to which the roofing shingles are installed. These boards are fastened to the rafters of the roof.Dormer: A small structure projecting from a sloped roof, usually with one or more windows. There are many types of dormers including gable dormers and shed dormers.Drip edge: A flashing (usually metal) applied around the roof edges to help water coming off the roof drain properly. Drip edge tries to direct water to "drip"...
Patricia Grey | Interior Design
Highlights from Paris - My Paris Restaurants
Café Campana at the Musée d'Orsay Paris After an inspiring stroll through the new Impressionist Gallery on Level 5 of the Musée d'Orsay you arrive at the breath taking new new Pavilion Amont, the station's former engine house, and the Café Campana with futuristic décor by the Brazilian Campana Brothers. It is a provocative jumble of orange twisted coated wire fencing, sea anemone chairs by Edra, gold laser-cut lampshades resembling bells and the magnificent station clock as the focal...
diy: Blog Cabin
The remodeling process continues at Blog Cabin 2012, with windows being installed and the deck now under construction....
Ewing Painting Blog and Reviews
I’m back to my blog! I have been busy with a lot of things lately, home projects, holidays, family and yes I must admit mostly business. Between a few hard punches and a tight schedule to follow it has been … Continue reading →...
Involving Color
Check out this beautiful blue living room from A Pocketful of Blue! The color is Behr Tide Pools. Thanks so much, JoAnne, for sharing! See more rooms like this in my blue paint colors and living rooms galleries. See my submissions page to send me your rooms! Pin it...
Brooks Painting Inc.
A Color Theory Lesson from Sherwin-Williams Paint
Color Theory Learning the basic “language of color” will help you achieve your decorating goals. Here is a simple break-down from Sherwin-Williams: Hue Hue identifies the general family of a color, such as red, yellow, blue or green. The traditional color wheel is made up of twelve color families: red, red-orange, orange, yellow-orange, yellow, yellow-green, [...]...
A David Creation
What is Google Apps as opposed to Regular Gmail?
I get the “deer and the headlight” look every time I ask someone if they are using Google Apps for their business. They typically respond with, “I think so. I have a gmail account. Is that what you mean?” My answer is, “No. Google Apps is a business product and is so much more than [...]...
A. Allbright Painting
Pay It Forward with A.Allbright’s Paint-It-Forward 2012
Today, we opened the voting to the public, to take part in giving someone $7500 worth of painting services for FREE. Please take a moment to read the stories of these real people with real struggles and choose who you want to give it to. It's so easy to pay it forward with our Paint-It-Forward charity give away. Just go to our Paint It Forward page. In an uncertain world, where tragedy and hardship can change lives in an instant, community can make a huge difference. When...
Summit Services Inc.
Why Companies Fail At Implementing Change
This weekend I was reading a book called Leading Change, by John P. Kotter. There was an entire chapter dedicated to why companies fail at implementing change. A couple things jumped out at me as being very relevant for the Summit group. Two of the main reasons were: Under communicating the Vision by a factor of 10 (or even 100.... or even 1000) Failing to create short term wins Kotter spends a great deal of timing talking about the importance...
Pro Painting Net
Are Your Facebook Fans Even Seeing Your Posts?
Recent changes to Facebook may keep your fans from seeing your content, but there is a something simple you can do to help fix this for yourself and educate your friends and fans. If you are a business owner who has put efforts into your Facebook marketing, worked hard to attract fans or “likes” to [...]...
Advisors On Target
January is Work ON Your Business month
January is an especially good time to work ON your business. For many companies, business tends to slow down in January. Whether or not your business is seasonally slow in the winter time, there is usually a lull right after the holidays. Many consumers of your goods and services may have spent a lot of [...]...
O'Connor's Painting Service Blog
Old paint cans hanging about that you want to get rid of in a responsible manner?
Whenever O’Connor’s Painting Service completes a job, any unused paint we leave with the customer with a description of where the paint was used in the house written on the can. These paints come in handy if there is ever a need for the homeowner to touch up a spot here or there years later. [...]...
E D Painting blog
Exterior: If you live in CT you probably know that painting the exterior of your house is limited to the weather. So when is a good time to paint? That is completely dependent on temperature. There are some paints that allow you to work as low as 35° like Sherwin Williams Resilience, others might require [...]...
Home Fellas
Benjamin Moore Introduces Color Stories
Picking paint colors has always been a major decision for homeowners. While paint isn't as expensive as replacing the marble in a kitchen, it can take time to repaint a room because you really weren't happy with the color. To help homeowners add color to a room, Benjamin Moore has introduced Color Stories. Paint Color Inspiration Benjamin Moore's Color Stories use several sources as inspiration for the new paint color collection. Pulling from nature, moments in time, discovered objects, and the...
Masterwork Painting and Restoration
Window Restoration is more cost effective and “greener” than replacing windows!
Window Restoration / Refurbishing / Reconditioning is more cost effective and “greener” than replacing windows! I would like to pass on a few notes that I think you will find quite interesting and perhaps even remarkable regarding replacement windows and the value of reconditioning existing windows. The payback for replacement windows through reduced heating costs is approximately 120 years!! No, that is not a typo. That figure is calculated in a recent article by Pieter...
Patriotic Painting Blog
Don’t forget painting contractors on Small Business Saturday
While the majority of the focus on Small Business Saturday is on retail stores and restaurants, local contractors should not be forgotten in the mix. With the goal of the shop small movement being to stimulate business and income to … Continue reading →...
Paint Track
New Benjamin Moore Color Collection...
3M: The Lead Thread
Lead Found in Many Thrift Shop Items
This article on the Consumer Affairs website says that if you think getting a better deal shopping a second-hand stores think again. A recent study suggests that many items you’d find in a thrift shop could be hiding dangerous chemicals including lead. read more...
PNP Craftsmen
How can I Repaint or Refinish Cabinets in my House?
Often times, customers and homeowners ask us questions regarding their old cabinets in their homes. The reason for this issue is because cabinets simply get old and age as time progresses. They become worn out and require attention. The typical solution one would think of is to replace the cabinet, which would be quite costly and requires a tremdous amount of work. Today, we are going to discuss an excellent alternative for fixing these cabinets. A highly recommended solution would...
Living in Color with Sonu
Countdown to Brimfield and Color Chats--the NEW Benjamin Moore blog
Color chats, a new blog from Benjamin Moore is ready to launch, so this will be my last post here at Living in Color. I'm off to hunt and gather and tweet from the Brimfield show, and if all goes according to plan, on September 7 Benjamin Moore will launch the best blog for color www.ColorChats.com We'll have lots to......
Harbor Paint
Permanent Solutions for Rotted Wood on Long Island
Protect your investment by replacing rotted and worn out wood before the winter months arrive. Rotting wood should be replaced before additional structural damage is caused by water infiltration into the home. At Harbor Paint we employ the best solutions for making repairs and replacements for rotted wood on trim, fascia, rakes, sills and soffits. Wood that is located less than eight inches from the ground should be replaced with rot resistant wood (cedar or PT) or today's revolutionary PVC...
Renaissance Painting and Decorating
Painting Interior of Science World
Renaissance Painting has been down at Science World off and on for a couple of months now painting the interior. It is a two tone colour scheme, with a dark colour on the upper and a lighter colour on the bottom. The interior of the building is very large, with ......
Premiere Painting
Elastomeric Coatings: Problem Solving For Masonry Substrates
Yesterday Bill & Kevin Burnett wrote a post for the San Francisco Chronicle that addresses What to check when paint won’t stick to stucco. We figured we would add our two cents. Elastomeric coatings were developed in the 1950s to answer the problems of paint cracking and peeling on masonry substrates; concrete, concrete block, cinderblock and [...]...
