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The Best Bathroom Paint For Your Westchester Home
If you have ever tackled this particular project yourself, you know that bathrooms are a tough room to paint! Not only do they have a lot of angles and features to work around, but there…
How Do You Repair And Paint A Scratched Wall?
It’s that time of year again. You’re left sitting on your sofa trying to recover from the stress of ALL those relatives in your home over the holidays! And you’re not the only one…
Interior Painting Tips For The New Year
This is a time of year for resolutions, fresh starts, and new beginnings. Whether you have a home improvement project, a fitness goal, or are simply determined to make more time for the…
What Color Should Your Ceiling Be? It’s An Important Question!
When we think about interior painting, walls are often the first thing to come to mind. While those show-stealers may be important, easily claiming the limelight, don’t forget about your…
Painting With The Colors Of Fall – Find Inspiration Outside Your Window!
We’re stepping quickly into a time of year when nature puts on a color display unlike any other. Well, unless you live in the south or out on the sunny west coast. If that’s the case, we…
How Do You Paint Clean, Straight Lines?
This may be an exterior painting season, but we know that a lot of folks (maybe like you!) are enjoying a little interior painting as well. This is a great time to throw the windows…
Which Paint Sheen Is Best? Tips For House Painters
Your interior paint is actually a lot like your wardrobe. It changes with time as styles come and go (well, at least for some!), and different colors and “looks” are chosen for…
What Is The Best Weather For Exterior Painting?
You know, exterior painting is a little like camping. You plan for it, gather your gear together, invest in your favorite snacks, try (and often fail) to get a friend to come along, and…
How Do You Remove Wood Paneling?
If we had to pick the top contenders for the title of “Greatest Enemies of Modern Interior Style,” two names rise to the surface very quickly: outdated wallpaper and wood paneling. To…
4 Tips For Increased Home Safety And Efficiency This Winter
As much as you might not like to think about it, winter is right around the corner. For now you can enjoy the season’s transitions, and the little bit of a cooler snap that’s sneaking…
6 Low-Cost Projects To Increase Home Value
As a rule, we all like the idea of keeping our houses clean. Sure, you might have the odd toy underfoot, or maybe have a bad habit of shoving old pizza boxes in the stove until the next…
Remove Popcorn Ceilings
If your home has popcorn texture on the ceilings, there is a good chance you’ll want to get rid of it. The process is messy, but not very difficult. Many homeowners in our part of New…
Complete Apartment Painting & Carpentry In Rye Brook
We recently completed a full apartment painting project including some carpentry. We painted the Kitchen, Living Room, Dining Room, Bathroom, Hallway and Bedroom in an apartment in Rye…
How To Paint A Ceiling
Is your ceiling ready for a fresh coat of paint? Do you know how to paint a ceiling? Well, painting a ceiling is not quite as simple as painting a wall. Here are some tips to help walk…
Wood Replacement Using Composite Material In Pelham NY
Problem One of our customers in Pelham has an exterior patio with some wood decking and saddle. The saddle was in an area susceptible to the elements and the top of the saddle began to…
Should You Be Power Washing Your House?
In New York and Connecticut, when the winter mud or summer molds begin to accumulate on a house, many homeowners wonder whether they should replace siding, repaint the home, or attempt…
How To Maintain An Interior Painting Job
Perhaps you are wondering how to keep those newly painted walls looking nice, maximizing the time between interior painting jobs. With the bustle of everyday life, interior paint tends…
How Often Should I Be Power Washing My Deck?
With spring around the corner, it’s time to start turning our attention to the outdoors. Winter’s mud is still clinging to much of the outdoors, including your deck. With a constant…
How To Update Your Kitchen Without Remodeling
With a tight economy many homeowners aren’t able to remodel their kitchen when it begins to look worn and outdated. But who said you needed to give your kitchen a full-blown remodeling?…
Did You Know We Also Do Roofing?
As a top quality general contractor, we not only provide professional painting services but also home maintenance, carpentry, and roofing services. With a well-trained staff and…
How To Caulk Baseboards
Baseboards are a classy addition to just about any room, providing definition to the walls, and extra detail and depth to the whole appearance. It also provides a useful coverup for the…
Renovations For The Elderly Or Disabled
With a tradition of painting going back more than 100 years, A.G. Williams is well known for excellent quality and painting services. What many of our local clients do not realize,…
PVC Trim Or Aztek? The Best Trim Choice For Homes
When your home’s exterior woodwork starts to show signs of wear, rot, or insect damage, replacement becomes necessary. One increasingly popular solution homeowners are turning to is PVC…
Paint Or Replace Windows? A NY And CT Homeowner's Guide
If you live in New York or Connecticut, especially in areas filled with historic charm, chances are you have asked yourself this question at some point: should I paint or replace…