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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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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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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Client Reunion

Fifteen years ago, Larkin Painting completed a renovation project for our most recent client. Bill Larkin has known them for over fifteen years. We always love it when clients return to us. We love catching up with them and we really enjoy having the chance to work on their homes and spaces again. Over time…

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Care of Soul: Embrace Not Knowing

Care of Soul is more about living with the questions rather than having the answers. It’s more about being in the space of “not knowing” rather than the space of “knowing”. Our first instincts and inclinations are to try to think our way out of problems and conundrums, hoping to find security in the right…

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