How to be Happy in Your Home

Humans are soulful beings and those souls need to be tended to regularly. At Larkin Painting Company, our mission is built upon “care of soul”.  You care for soul when you care and tend to your home environment. This can be something as simple as putting fresh color up on your walls to planting a container garden…

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Spray Painting Furniture

Our client wanted to restyle some furniture pieces – a bed frame, headboard and footboard, and two nightstands. One of the easiest ways to change up your decor and add spark to your home is to repaint the furniture. The original colors of our client’s pieces were bright. The nightstands were the color of paprika,…

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Christine is Running the Boston Marathon

Larkin Painting Company is lucky to have Christine DaSilva as an integral part of our team. Not only is she the Director of Business Operations, but she is also an accomplished athlete. Christine has been invited to run the historic Boston Marathon on Patriot’s Day! Congratulations Christine! Christine says that the marathon is on the…

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Care of Soul Encore: Home Soul

Hi Folks, We know that the entrance to your home is not just an opening surrounded by wood, allowing access by swinging a wood or metal panel door, but a passageway where you welcome family and friends. It is a threshold that you crossed as newlyweds or when you brought home your newborn child, an…

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All About the Windows

Windows are your home’s eyes on the world. When they aren’t looking their best, they can significantly diminish the look, feel, and value of your home. Our client needed their new window trim patched and painted. After the window installation, we patched the new, raw and unpainted, window trim. We then sanded, primed, and painted…

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2022 Colors of the Year From Behr and Sherwin-Williams

Evergreen Fog 2022’s Colors of the Year evoke a mood of optimism and calm. As humanity struggles with the daily challenges of the pandemic, everyone is feeling a need for soothing and relaxed surroundings. Sherwin-Williams understands the trend and chose Evergreen Fog for its Color of the Year. Different tones of gray have been and…

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Care of Soul: Wage Peace

One of the best ways to care for soul is to wage peace. Wage Peace by Judyth Hill Wage peace with your breath. Breathe in firemen and rubble, breathe out whole buildings and flocks of red wing blackbirds. Breathe in terroristsand breathe out sleeping children and freshly mown fields. Breathe in confusion and breathe out maple trees. Breathe…

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Refinishing Water-Damaged Cabinets

Water damaged our client’s cabinet doors. The water damage caused the paint to peel and crack. In order to repair the two cabinet doors, we removed them and took the doors to our shop. First, we scraped away the loose and cracked paint. Next, we applied wood filler and sanded the surface until they were…

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Meet Roger

Roger Lage began his journey with Larkin Painting six years ago. He started as a painter and worked his way to the position of Project Manager. Today he is our Director of Field Operations. It is not an understatement to say that as Larkin Painting has grown as a business and in what is required…

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