An Eye for Detail

At Larkin Painting, we have an eye for detail.  Customers ask us to help bring their vision for their home into reality. To do that, we have to see the details.  We use the eye of a camera as one tool for evaluating what services our customers need for their homes.  However, our best seeing tool by far is our own eyes.  The value and importance of photography in our lives today is immeasurable.  When we look through the lens of a camera or at the screen of a cell phone, we miss details and we often don’t mentally capture the essence of what we are trying to see.  Science has shown that we don’t retain details about what we have seen when we only take a picture of it.  The balance of observing with our eyes, really soaking in the details, combined with taking photos to serve as a reference later, is quite important. Before-closet

This proves true when it comes to evaluating a customer’s project.  Photos are a convenient resource to help us remember how many windows or doors are in a room, but if we just took photos of the room without looking at it closely, it would be very difficult to notice the details.  With our careful eyes, we see the subtleties such as fine settling cracks, uneven, bumpy wall surfaces or tiny gaps in the moulding or windowsill trim.  After ClosetPhotos of our customers’ homes can be helpful.  When a customer emails photos to us, they give us a place to start, provide a good reference when we are purchasing materials for the project, or serve as inspiration.  The camera lens and our eyes are valuable tools, but they are not interchangeable.  To paraphrase Charles Eames, the details are details and they make the project.  It will in the end be these details that give your home project life, that turn your vision for your home into reality.  At Larkin Painting, we are proud of our ability to observe and discover these details for you.

Be well,

Bill