Posts Tagged ‘residential painting’
Color Trends-2021 ColorMix Forecast
What are the paint color trends for 2021? To say that 2020 has been a year of uncertainty, fear, and tumult for the entire world would be an understatement. Real-life informs interior design. Real-life informs which colors we choose for our walls, cabinetry, and furniture. Pantone, the leading color trend expert, and decorative paint…
Read MoreConnecting to Each Other: Practice Silence Part 2
Practicing silence can do so much to heal us and make us whole as individuals, and as a society. But this is the thing: Silence is hard to come by-especially these days and in this culture! There is so much noise inside and outside of our heads. We live in a culture that commodifies everything…
Read MoreThe Jonathan Maynard House Restoration Project-Video
Our client needed to refurbish his historical home, the Jonathan Maynard House. He trusted us with this challenging task. We had to ensure that the refurbishment adhered to strict historical preservation rules. We got started and the results are stunning.
Read MoreHow Do We Want to be Memorialized as a Nation?
What we as a nation memorialize says a lot about what we value, how we want to be remembered, and how we want to step into the future as a community of people. Did you know that the Confederate monuments were built between 1890 and 1950? And the era coincides exactly with the era of…
Read MorePreserving a Historical Framingham Home
Our client, Mike, is the proud owner of a historical home in Framingham. His house was once owned by one of Framingham’s most prominent citizens, Jonathan Maynard. Born in 1752, Maynard graduated from Harvard and in 1775 immediately joined the fight for America’s independence from Britain. Maynard fought at Bunker Hill, Cambridge, Saratoga, and Stillwater.…
Read MoreWe Rescued Our Clients’ Ceilings!
Our clients recently hired an electrician to install new light fixtures. Unfortunately, the end result was less than stellar and not at all what they wanted. The lights hung at an odd angle and were not flush with the ceilings. Our clients had chosen that particular style of light fixture for its sophisticated, recessed design.…
Read MoreJuneteenth 2020!
Hey folks. Happy Juneteenth! This holiday has taken on a renewed urgency these days. It was two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation that black people in Galveston, Texas, who had been trafficked and held in bondage, found out that they were free. Two and a half years later. The Emancipation Proclamation was…
Read MoreClean 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…
Read MoreSoul Happy
The poet Rumi writes: no one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy. Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil away from the face of God. If there is a face of God, it is Eden, one of our youngest customers at six months old. (She may not be the one that…
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