How to Pick the Right White Kitchen Paint Color
If you want a fresh, white kitchen, selecting the right white kitchen paint color for your walls or cabinets can be massively frustrating! After all, there are hundreds of whites out there, in all variations of undertones: blue-whites, yellow-whites, pink-whites. Navigating undertones is tricky, but if just need a little guidance to make the […]
Painting Kitchen Cabinets: Before, or After Changing the Counters and Backsplash?
We’re often asked whether we recommend painting kitchen cabinets before or after the new countertops and backsplash are installed. You might be worried about damaging the freshly-painted cabinets during new counter or tile installation. But maybe you’re itching for an updated kitchen NOW – we’ve all been there! – and want to get the painting done, at […]
“Gadzooks, My Cabinets are Orange!!” – Updating Cabinets, Part 1
Seemingly all at once, everyone’s cabinets are outdated. One day, everyone woke up, took a good look at their golden oak cabinets while brewing their morning coffee, and said to themselves, “Argh!!… they’re orange!” Or you realize that those “whitewashed” pickled oak cabinets are… pale pink. Suddenly you find yourself staring at a massive design […]
Color Choice is Difficult – Know When to Delegate It!
Over the past few weeks, some of my clients have really struggled to pick a paint color. These people were decisive professionals in their business lives, yet when sifting through hundreds of colors in dozens of paint charts, they froze. So many colors are SO similar. And color choice seems so “permanent”. After all, you’re paying someone to put […]
Wallpaper: To Remove or Not to Remove – Part 2
We’re back for Part 2 of the gripping story that had you all on the edge of your seats at the end of Part 1: “I tried stripping this *f#&$@%!!^ paper, I’ve realized that removing wallpaper is no joyride but it still needs to come off, now what??” Okay, so you took a razor […]
How to Remove Wallpaper – or Should You? 4 Scenarios Your Might Encounter, and What to Do for Each
So I walk into one of my jobs the other day and what do I see but one of my painters making a massive rookie mistake: trying to remove wallpaper that didn’t want to be removed. Ugh! There goes an extra day of prep and many hundreds of dollars right out the door. We were preparing […]
“I Have to Pick a Sheen Too??”
“Which paint sheen should I use?” “Does it really matter?” “Is there such thing as a sheen mistake?” I hear these questions all the time. What is paint “sheen”, exactly? Loosely defined, “sheen” is the amount of “shininess” of any surface. Technically anything you can imagine has a sheen, from a rose petal or a […]
