Category Archive For "Painting"
Maintaining Baseboards and Trim
If you’re a maintenance conscious homeowner, then you want to make sure that every area of your home gets the attention it needs to look its best. When you’re giving your home its next deep clean, one of the areas you need to make sure to address are your baseboards and trim.
How to Create a Feng Shui Bathroom
Feng shui, the ancient Chinese art of spatial arrangement, has become extremely popular in the west because of the way it changes a rooms atmosphere. Adding a sense of warmness and positive energy in a room is the main objective of Feng shui design, making it easy to see why homeowners are flocking to this design …
Common Mistakes When Choosing Paint Colors
Choosing paint colors is tough. Whether you’re looking for the perfect color for an accent wall or trying to paint a whole room one bright color, there are a lot of ways to make paint color mistakes. It’s difficult because you want your house or apartment to be unique and reflective of your personality, but …
A Homeowner’s Guide to Your Next Big Painting Project
You’ve decided to treat your home to a full painting project. Now what? Painting a home is not always so simple as putting up some tape and going at your walls with a brush. It requires careful planning and scheduling to make sure every inch of your home is getting the attention it deserves. As …
How to Choose the Right Company for HOA Painting Jobs
Homeowners associations (HOAs) are known to like everything done a certain way, and paint jobs are no exception. Though HOA paint jobs are likely to recur every few years or so and keep up with painting trends, they have to stay consistent in order to make sure everything maintains the desired look and feel of …
The Most Popular Interior Paint Colors of 2016
A new coat of paint can do wonders for pretty much any room in your home. Though it’s important to have your home reflect you and your family’s personalities and tastes, it’s also good to keep your home looking fresh by keeping up with the latest trends. You’ll impress friends, family and neighbors by adjusting …
Latex vs. Oil Paint
Painting the interior of your home is one of the most beneficial home improvement projects that you can undertake. Not only will it make your home look completely new, but it is also relatively inexpensive. But there is one question many homeowners are faced with when beginning an interior painting project: should I use latex …
Key Things to Know about Eco-Friendly Wall Paint
Vibrant versus subtle. Glossy or matte? What are you going to do about those tricky crown molding corners? These are only a few of the questions and decisions you, as a homeowner, face when you choose “painting your house” as a home improvement project. Whatever your new vision is for your home, ServiceWhale wants to …
Prepping Surfaces for a New Pennsylvania Paint Job
Painting may be the fastest, best way to give your home or interior space a new lease on life. A simple paint job can make an entire space look brand new. It is important, however, to engage in the right processes to make sure that you get the most out of your supplies, and that …
The Pros and Cons of Painting Brick Surfaces
Brick surfaces are a classic look for both the interior and exterior of homes, but they lack the flash that many homeowners now desire. When you finally get tired of the same old, same old red-brick look, you may consider painting the brick surfaces on the inside and outside of your home. Unlike traditional painting …