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A.G. Williams publishes practical notes on prep work, color, seasonal painting, historic homes, and maintenance.
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Can Fresh Interior Paint Help You Sell Your Home?
Are you planning on selling your home this spring? If so, we wish you all the best. If not, well, you might want to add this article to your Favorites, just so you can find it again when the time is right. Before you do put your home on the market, you likely want to...
Why Is White Paint So Popular? – Interior Color Tips for 2016
In years past we’ve seen bold, deep colors dominate the spectrum of popular interior paint options. These are still popular, especially as accents, but there is a decided shift as we project the “big colors” of 2016. Are you ready for it?
Guest Room Paint Colors: How Do You Find the Right One?
Are you considering a painting project before the holiday season gets into full swing? If so, you’re not alone. This is a popular time of year to think bigger than dusting and mopping, and instead add some fresh new colors and updated style before the doorbell starts to ring. With that in mind, let’s take...
Picking the Best Paint Color for Your Child’s Study Space
If you know where summer went, could you let us know? It feels like yesterday that the air was starting to turn from pleasantly warm to hot, and now we’re tapering back down toward those cool evenings and chilly nights. It’s time to go back to school too! Kids are herding around school buses early...
Choosing Classroom Paint Colors
With the school year drawing to a close over the next month or so, the time will be coming soon for rethinking and refreshing your classroom’s interior paint. This holds huge opportunity for not only adding a little new style, but also for choosing colors that can have a real, tangible impact on your students....
Interior Painting in Larchmont, NY – Warming Old Walls with New Color
We truly enjoy the process of transforming homes and businesses through the power of well-chosen and carefully applied paint. In fact, this passion has fueled us in our work for over a century! There is something particularly satisfying, however, about infusing an older home with modern, fresh color. It creates a beautiful blend of the...
How Do You Choose Paint for a Kid’s Room?
Generally when you choose interior paint colors for your home, you think through the styles of the day, your own personality and tastes, and what your ultimate goals are. Your rooms connect, working to create a cohesive feel that flows from space to space. But what about when you’re choosing paint for your child’s room?...
Exploring the Interior Paint Color Trends of 2015
In many ways, turning the corner into a new year acts like a reset button. We enjoy the thrill of tearing down old calendars and putting up new ones; a visual reminder that we’re starting fresh and that there are limitless possibilities for those 365 unmarked squares. In the world of professional painting, this is...
Non-Permanent Bathroom Design Ideas for Apartments
As we work through ideas relating to interior design and updates for renters, we first talked about the kitchen. After all, that’s one of the big-ticket items when it comes to personalization, decoration, and overall style opportunity in your home. Next in line (drum roll) is the bathroom. Bathrooms, right along with kitchens, are one...
Interior Paint and Design to Keep Your Spirits High this Winter
There is one major drawback to the winter season in this area of the country: shorter days. It seems like every year the sun starts to tuck itself behind the horizon just a little earlier, leaving us with fewer hours of daylight and more darkness. And, with no sun to warm your face as you...
Interior Painting Ideas: What Do You Do With a Dark Room?
It’s one thing to change the look of a room just by switching the color. That can be fairly straightforward. But what if you are working with a space that has an element that is basically unchangeable? For many, this “unchangeable” factor is a lack of natural light. Sure, you can invest in windows and...
Attic Room Ideas
Let’s think about your attic for a minute. If you’re like a lot of people, this immediately conjures up images of dust, boxes you have been meaning to go through for a while (or, possibly boxes you forgot you even have), wisps of insulation blowing like tumbleweed across floor joists, and other signs that your...
Choosing Brick Paint Colors: 3 Tips for Painting Brick
When you think of brick in a home, what comes to mind? Maybe a roaring fireplace (that was easy to get started without being an Eagle Scout), turtleneck sweaters, and mugs of hot chocolate? Or, a crumbling, eerie fireplace in the dark corner of a den. These mental images represent the two extreme ends of...
Choosing Bathroom Paint Colors (for outdated bathrooms)
There is a fine line between “charming” and “outdated,” or “retro” and “old.” The truth is, you might find yourself with a house that has a lot to love, but maybe just one or two areas that you’d like to change without committing to a full renovation. Here is the good news: you don’t necessarily...
6 Common Painting Mistakes you should Avoid
Have you ever finished a project, or some other labor-intensive activity, and then heard something that made you say, “Wow, I wish I had known that!”? Life is full of those moments when helpful information comes just a little bit too late. It is no different when it comes to painting! With that in mind,...
5 Secrets of Professional Painters
Have you ever painted a room in your home, stepped back, and then wondered what exactly went wrong? It all felt so right and your confidence soared as you edged, rolled, and brushed the paint on, but afterwards it looked a little, well, lacking? Professional painters make it seem easy with clean lines, smooth walls,...
What Are Shadow Stripes? Interior Painting Tips
Are you someone who likes to keep an eye out for popular trends when it comes to interior painting? Maybe there’s a certain room in your home that you’ve been thinking about changing or updating, but you’ve been waiting for the right idea to come rolling along. Well, one technique for painting a room that...
How Do You Clean a Paintbrush? Interior Painting Tips
For a lot of folks, a paintbrush is one of the last things considered during an interior or exterior painting project. With all the decisions that swirl in and around the process of painting, unfortunately the brush often becomes no more than a last minute purchase at wherever might be most convenient. And, even more...
How to Paint Kitchen Cabinets: Interior Painting Tips
Kitchens are one of those areas in your home that can be particularly satisfying to update or simply give a new look, maybe because they are often the central hub of family life. Unfortunately, however, it feels that sometimes those changes come with a larger price tag. One fantastic and economical way to change the...
Can I Paint Ceramic Tile?
Many homeowners wonder if they can paint ceramic tile in order to save time and money over replacing it. It is possible to paint ceramic tile. However, if the surface is not correctly prepared and the proper painting products used, the results can often be poor. How to Paint Ceramic Tiles The basic process involved...
What color should I paint a guest bedroom?
Hosting people in your home can be a wonderful experience, a time for building relationships and making people feel comfortable. Though it is mostly the character of your relationships and the warmth of your family that make the experience great, the physical accommodations you offer will also have an impact. When you are decorating a...
Interior Painting Tips: How to Paint a Room
Have you ever watched an episode of Mr. Bean? How about the episode where he paints a room on New Year’s Eve? He carefully tapes everything he doesn’t want to get painted, and then sticks fireworks in a can of paint and quickly leaves the room. The results? Well, you can imagine! Fortunately, there are...
Painting Tips for Painting a Child’s Bedroom
With the high concentrations of energy and imagination they house, kids’ bedrooms need both durability and creativity. Whether its pictures taped to the wall, little hand-prints, or wild games of chase, child’s walls are bound to get a lot of use. If you are considering painting a child’s bedroom, you will need to find paint...
How long does it take paint to dry in New York?
If you live in the Connecticut or New York area and are wondering how long it takes paint to dry in-between coats, read these tips below. There are a number of factors which can influence the drying time of paint including the temperature, humidity, type of paint etc. It is crucial to allow sufficient time...