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Pro Tips: How to Paint a Textured Ceiling
The texture and color of a ceiling significantly affect the overall appearance of a room. For instance, smooth, white ceilings make a room feel larger. Textured ceilings like popcorn ceilings help cover up any imperfections while also providing a functional purpose, namely noise reduction. However, while textured ceilings can hide [...]
How Painting a Ceiling Transforms a Room
When thinking about interior design and home painting, we tend to forget about the ceiling. Unless we crane our necks upward, our eyes normally rest on the walls or fall to the floor. That isn’t to say that ceilings don’t make a difference in how a room looks and feels. [...]
What to Ask Before Hiring a Home Painter
Sooner or later, your home will need to be painted. Maybe the exterior coat has faded over the years, or the interior walls are beginning to chip away. You might just want to change things up and paint your living room a new color. Whatever the case, if your home [...]
How to Paint for a More Dramatic Look
Sometimes we need a little drama in our lives. Not the kind that stresses us out or wears us down, but the kind that brings some new life and character to an old space. There are many ways to make your home look more dramatic, but painting is perhaps the [...]
5 Ways Moulding Improves Interior Design
When thinking about interior design, we often get caught up with color, furniture, and the way things are organized. While these factors matter greatly, moulding ties an interior together perhaps more than anything else. If this seems like an overstatement, let’s look at 5 ways moulding improves interior design. 1. [...]
How Finish Carpentry Beautifies A Home
The main purpose of a home is to provide shelter. But homes are so much more than that. This is where people eat, sleep, relax, and gather with loved ones. Homes are like representations of ourselves, filled with the things we love and enjoy. While we all require shelter, we [...]
How the Pros Prime Drywall for Painting
New drywall is great, but once it’s up you’re not going to want to look at it for long. Before you get ahead of yourself and start painting, however, you’ll need to prime the walls. Fortunately, priming drywall is a fairly straightforward process. If you don’t have the time or [...]
Drywall: Patch, Repair, or Replace?
You’ll find drywall in most modern homes and buildings. Drywall provides a cheap and fire resistant option for shelter and insulation. Home painters also have an easy time with drywall. However, while this material has its advantages, it doesn’t take much to damage it. On the plus side, fixing drywall [...]
8 Ways Your Drywall May Be Damaged
Drywall can be a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, this commonly used material is cheap and durable enough for most structures and relatively fireproof. It also provides a smooth surface for interior painting. On the other hand, drywall can be damaged in a number of ways, from [...]
How A Power Wash Extends A Home’s Life
When you become a homeowner, you want to do everything in your power to keep it in great shape. No one enjoys performing regular maintenance, but doing so will prolong the lifespan of your home and make it more appealing to passersby. Of all the maintenance tasks you can undertake, [...]
