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Painting an Entry - Painting an entryway can be challenging. You want to make a statement, welcome people to your home or business, and still keep the look appropriate to the setting and community. It's an outdoor space, and yet it's part of your home, the element of your house that provides the transition to the indoor space. In this example, you can see that the ar... - 2012/05/15

Painting and Cleaning - Good painters think a lot about cleaning. It's an essential part of prep work, for one very simple reason. When you paint something, the paint adheres to -- sticks to -- the top layer. If the top layer is dirt, then the paint sticks to the dirt, not to the wood or plaster or brick underneath. Wash away the dirt, and the paint goes with it. Since a... - 2012/05/13

Cracking and Flaking of Paint - What we're looking at here is a case of complete paint failure. This particular kind of paint failure is know as "cracking" followed by "flaking." While it may seem obvious that this paint cracked and flaked, it's actually a different kind of paint failure from alligatoring, blistering, chalking, and other more picturesque types of paint failure. ... - 2012/05/10

Tannin Bleed: What is it and why should you care? - Tannins are bitter vegetable compounds that add piquancy to your glass of wine or cup of tea. They are also present in some kinds of wood, and that's when they begin to have something to do with painting and decorating. Specifically, tannins create stains when they are activated by moisture. That means that your nice freshly painted or stained woo... - 2012/05/08

Painting and Decorating a Waiting Room - When painting a lobby or waiting room for a business, the first question should always be, "What's our goal?" Sometimes an anteroom is primarily intended to impress. Visitors will usually walk through fairly quickly, and setting the stage or making the right impression is the primary goal of the room. In such cases, a luxurious, modern feel is the... - 2012/05/06

Painting and Decorating a Restaurant - A fine restaurant relies on ambience as well as delicious food, and your painting and decorating choices determine much of that ambience. This seafood restaurant gets a maritime feel from the teal colour and the portraits of sailing ships. Note how the picture rail sports the same colour as the walls, while the chair rail is picked out in a pale c... - 2012/05/03