Clean and Safe Painting Procedures: COVID Update

Flowers are blooming and the weather has finally started to warm up. It is beautiful outside. As the state reopens, we continue to work cautiously and carefully as we help our clients improve their lives, homes, and the spaces that are important to them. Our painters continue to wear masks and utilizing frequent hand washing…

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Congratulations Emerson!

Congratulations Emerson

Congratulations to Emerson Ferreira on his eleven-year work anniversary. Emerson was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and moved to the United States in 1999. His original plan was to come here to learn English and then return to Brazil to continue his studies in business administration. Impressed by the energy America invests in maintaining our country’s beauty,…

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George Washington Carver: The Patron Saint of Painting

George Washington Carver

On a recent journey to the southern United States with my grandchildren, I rediscovered a great American, George Washington Carver. He is best known as the scientist-botanist who discovered many practical uses for the peanut crop. George Washington Carver invented over three hundred uses for the peanut including flour, paste, paper, wood stains and antiseptics.…

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A Winter Runner Welcomes Spring!

My name is Christine Da Silva. I am the Business Manager and Color Consultant for Larkin Painting Company. I am a passionate runner. Over the past few years, I have discovered some beautiful trails that are perfect for running and hiking during the warmer months. Throughout the summer, spring and fall, I ran and hiked…

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Wellesley Repaint Project for a Long-time Customer

painting by Larkin Painting Company

At Larkin Painting, it is a part of our mission to create a community. One of our long-time community members is selling her Wellesley house that was her home for many years. She needed to make a few changes to prepare her home for the market; namely she needed us to repaint her living room.…

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Congratulations Fabricio!

Our Larkin Painting team is family. We are always proud of the paths and growth our team members take while they are with us and even if they move on. Some of you may remember Fabricio Lage. Roger Lage is his father. It was an honor to have two members of the Lage family become…

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Transformations by Jill Litner Kaplan Interiors

We often work with the most talented and sought-after designers. We have worked on several projects with Jill Litner Kaplan Interiors. The work process is always amazing, and we love seeing the end results of each project. They are quite busy, but they took some time out of their schedule to talk to us about…

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Proclaiming the Legacy of Hope

Robert F. Kennedy

I was 16 years old when Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated on June 5, 1968. Fifty years later, my soul still weeps.  What today would be a four-letter word in politics, marks his legacy and meaning for me: HOPE. He did not live a sainted life. He was an aide to the red-baiting Sen. Joseph…

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Do Painters Pray?

I remember being at a church service some time ago when a member of the community asked me what I did for a living. I replied I was a house painter. He chuckled and said sarcastically: “Do painters pray?” Ha, ha – I was appropriately insulted. I knew there were stereotypes about painters—the guy that…

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