Should You Clean Your Own Wooden Fence?

The white picket fence has long been a symbol of the American Dream, signifying property ownership, stability, and prosperity. Whatever your views on their iconography, wooden fences can complete the look of a home’s exterior while protecting its lawn, garden, and other features from outside forces. But while your wooden [...]

2023-03-11T10:42:48-05:00February 6, 2020|

Call Your Painter for Routine Maintenance

Whether you’re a homeowner, business owner, or both, maintaining your property on a regular basis keeps it valuable, comfortable, and attractive, inside and out. This routine maintenance is multi-faceted, requiring careful inspection of many different parts of your residential or commercial space. And if it’s time to start this process, [...]

2023-03-11T10:43:15-05:00August 1, 2019|

Save Your Company Money: Hire a Professional Painter

If you own a business, you know that every penny counts. The more money you can save, the better. So, at first, investing in professional painting services might seem counterintuitive to this aim. After all, hiring painters can get expensive, especially if you own or manage a large commercial facility. [...]

2023-03-11T10:43:16-05:00July 16, 2019|

Tools to Add to Your Painting Arsenal

Serious painting jobs are best left to the professionals, for a variety of reasons. Professional painters are more experienced, staffed with multiple workers, and have the equipment necessary for each job. Of course, some of us enjoy taking on DIY painting projects here and there. If you’re one of them, [...]

2023-03-11T10:43:46-05:00December 19, 2018|

Painting Colors Interior Designers Use

Summertime in Northern Virginia seems like an appropriate time to bring up the coolest colors used by interior designers in client homes. Given how hot and humid this year has been, imagine how satisfying it would be to walk into your house and instantly feel like you have entered a [...]

2023-03-11T10:57:11-05:00July 13, 2018|

Beat the Heat with These Cooling Colors

Summer is here and so is our Northern Virginia simmering heat and humidity. Also making an appearance, are wallet busting energy bills associated with cooling down your home. Wouldn’t it be nice if, after finishing your 32.2 minute commute from work in heavy traffic, you could come home to a [...]

2023-03-11T10:57:12-05:00July 12, 2018|

Turning an Unused Barn Into a Venue

Is there a wedding in your future? More specifically, are you responsible for planning a wedding and need to determine the venue? Do you own a barn? If the answer to any of these is yes, you may want to consider jumping on the “wedding in a barn” bandwagon that [...]

2023-03-11T10:57:16-05:00June 17, 2018|

Beyond Taupe: Neutral Colors for 2018

If an interior painting project is in the immediate future for your Northern Virginia home, our guess is you are struggling over selecting just the right color. You want a neutral tone; something that is going to complement your furnishings and the rest of your décor. And then as you [...]

2023-03-11T10:57:21-05:00April 27, 2018|

Do I Need Dry Rot Repair Work Done?

Do I Need Dry Rot Repair Work Done? Dry rot is not only unattractive, if left unattended, it can potentially do serious damage to the structural integrity of your Northern Virginia home. At Reston-based, award-winning All American Painting Plus, we do more than residential painting. The “plus” in our name [...]

2023-03-11T10:57:26-05:00April 22, 2018|

Signs Your Kitchen Needs a Touch Up

The kitchen is often considered to be the “hub” of most Northern Virginia homes. It is the most trafficked room in the house and after a while, it looks like it. Cabinets and drawers get scratched, marked up, and dented in the normal course of kitchen activities. The same goes [...]

2023-03-11T10:57:26-05:00April 17, 2018|