Painting Guidance Without Generic Filler.
A.G. Williams publishes practical notes on prep work, color, seasonal painting, historic homes, and maintenance.
Showing 12 of 84 articles.
What kind Bathroom Paint should I use?
Amid the dizzying, towering aisles full of paint cans in your local home improvement store, it can be an intimidating proposition trying to find the right can of bathroom paint for your painting project. That’s why we’re here to help! With over 100 years experience as a residential painting contractor, we can help you find...
Should I hire an Interior Painting Contractor?
With so many other expenses and a tight economy, is it really worth paying to hire an interior painting contractor? What are the advantages? These questions are worth thinking through. There are several factors that should be considered in deciding whether or not to hire a painting contractor: quality of results, time involved, safety, and...
How to Paint Kitchen Cabinets
With so much wear and tear from cooking, washing dishes, and wiping down, kitchen cabinets often get a worn look after a few years of use. When cabinets become stained or scuffed, many homeowners assume they need to replace their entire set of cabinets – an extremely high cost option. Other home owners simply want...
How many Paint Coatings do I need for an Interior Project?
In a day when so much goes to waste and finances are tight, who wants to waste money on extra paint? If you are looking to buy paint for an interior painting project and don’t want to end up with either a surplus or shortage, you will need to know how many paint coatings are...
Painting Tips – Painting Small Rooms
It’s hard to believe, but in the 1950’s low ceilings and small rooms were in style. Today nothing can hamper a room’s feng shui like cramped space. If you’re running up against this problem, but aren’t ready to tear out walls or raise the roof, we can suggest several tips when painting small rooms to...
Chalkboard Paint and Magnetic Paint
You don’t need to go to that hip coffee house or bistro down the street to see the menu in colorful chalk on the wall. Do it in your own kitchen! Keep your family tuned into YOUR menu for the week with chalkboard paint. Grocery lists, weekly appointments, family chores, tic-tac-toe, and a host of...
Interior Painting Tips
Like wine spilled on a new shirt or a rock chip in you new car’s windshield, you are bound to end up with minor wall damage somewhere in your freshly-painted house. Scuffs, dents, scrapes, dings, holes and dents… call them what you will, they steal the glory from a beautiful wall, calling everyone’s attention towards...
How to Clean Up After Interior Painting
Interior painting involves much more than just applying paint to the walls. There is an intense process before-hand, involving selecting paint colors and preparing the area to be painted. Similarly, once the paint is on the walls there are a number of things that must be done to clean up. As a painting contractor, one...
Do I Need to Use Primer?
When painting your home interior, it can be tempting to skip any unnecessary steps. We also know that in the long run, we’ll be happier with the results if we do the job right. With these two considerations in mind, should we use primer before we paint the interior of a house? The simplest and...
What Color should I Paint my Ceiling?
Some trends come and go quickly, while others seem so long-lived, we don’t even think of them as trends. White ceilings are a perfect example. For decades, no one seemed to question them; it wasn’t a design trend… it was simply the way you did things. Recently, however, designers and homeowners have felt the winds...
Coordinating Painting and Design
When it comes to updating your home, few decisions feel as important as choosing paint colors. One of the most common questions we hear at A.G. Williams Painting Company is whether paint should come first or interior design. The truth is, coordinating painting and design from the very beginning creates the most beautiful and seamless...
Where do I start when choosing colors for my home?
Choosing colors for your home is one of the most exciting parts of redecorating, but it can also feel overwhelming. With so many paint colors available, homeowners often ask the same question: Where do I start when choosing colors for my home? The good news is that there is a simple and proven approach that...