Planning a Home Interior Painting Project

If you are thinking about doing some interior painting in your Northern Virginia home this winter, we highly recommend you spend the time to plan the project out to get the results you want. Interior painting requires more than just buying the paint, a couple of brushes, a tray and [...]

2023-03-11T10:57:36-05:00January 15, 2018|

Protecting Your Big Investment: Your Home

Your Northern Virginia home is probably the largest single investment you will make. Aside from its monetary value, your house provides shelter, a place to live and thrive, for you and your family. Without question you want to protect your home. You buy insurance so you can repair or rebuild [...]

2023-03-11T10:57:40-05:00November 30, 2017|

Give A Storefront a Great First Impression

Conventional wisdom says you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. But we all know that a book’s cover determines if we open a book or put it back on the shelf. Your storefront is your business’s book cover. Your storefront is one giant ad for your Northern Virginia business. [...]

2023-03-11T10:57:46-05:00October 24, 2017|

Why Not to DIY Commercial Buildings

As a business owner or property manager, you probably already understand the importance of your commercial building’s exterior and interior appearance. How your business looks sends a strong message to customers, employees, vendors, and the community you market to. If you have taken a hard look at your facility and [...]

2023-03-11T10:57:49-05:00October 12, 2017|

A New Paint Job is More Than Just Paint

After painting hundreds of homes in northern Virginia, All American Painting Plus’ professional painters have learned that a new paint job is more than just a paint job. What do we mean by this? We’re glad you asked. We mean that a new paint job entails way more than the [...]

2023-03-11T10:57:50-05:00September 28, 2017|

Northern Virginia’s Favorite Fall Colors

Here at All American, we love color and we love fall – especially in Virginia – so why not post about both at the same time! Fall is an exciting time of the year for a number of reasons: football season, cozy weather (hopefully), and a burst of new color [...]

2023-03-11T10:57:51-05:00September 22, 2017|

How We Balance Efficiency and Detail

Have you ever worked with painting contractors who worked really fast, but the end product was below your expectations? Or maybe they did a great job, but took way longer than you were expecting. The balance between efficiency and thoroughness is tricky, but we are proud to say that we [...]

2023-03-11T10:57:51-05:00September 16, 2017|

Maintaining Your Deck Year-Round 101

One thing that All American Painting Plus loves about Virginia is the weather! Living in the southeast is especially convenient for deck owners because almost every month of the year provides ‘deck weather.’ If you are a deck owner, we know that your deck is in many ways an extension [...]

2023-03-11T10:57:52-05:00September 10, 2017|

Differences in Oil and Latex in Exterior Paint

Most homeowners don’t have much knowledge about the qualities and histories of paints for external painting applications. For the most part, when it comes to household external painting applications, consumers have had just two choices: oil-based and latex-based paint. Oil-based paint has fallen out of favor for a number of [...]

2023-03-11T11:00:31-05:00February 23, 2017|

Best Time of Year for Exterior Painting?

If you’re ready to paint the exterior of your home, there are a number of details you need to figure out. You’ve got paint colors to consider, painting contractors to call, quotes to compare - and all for a simple exterior paint job. Perhaps you’ve discovered that getting your house [...]

2023-03-11T11:00:40-05:00November 20, 2016|