Larkin Painting Creates Work From Home Spaces!

It’s time to create or refresh your work from home space. We can create the space you need, and we are here to help you negotiate these difficult and uncertain times. Many of us are working from home (WFH) for the foreseeable future and some of us may be working from home permanently. You may…

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Wallcoverings for Bookshelves

The design firm, MAK & CO., hired us to work on a project that featured wallcoverings. From time to time we need additional craftspeople to help with projects. We hire only expert subcontractors that have the same values, commitment to our clients, and quality work history that we do. Indeed, these subcontractors are an extension…

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Connecting to Each Other: How to Practice Silence Part 3

We all know this: finding and capturing silence these days is extremely difficult. We live in our culture — noisy, filled with distractions. It is a commodified culture that values things over people and nature. In the past, it was a bit easier. Now we have to be intentional and deliberate and choose to practice…

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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…

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Connecting 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…

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The 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.

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Preserving 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.…

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We 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.…

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Juneteenth 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…

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