Posts Tagged ‘who we are’
Working Safely for Our Community
2020 has been a year, to say the least! The craftspeople at Larkin Painting Company have always taken pride in working safely. COVID-19 has tested our state and the world in a manner we haven’t seen for decades. The virus has substantially changed the landscape of our everyday lives. The well-being and safety of our…
Read MoreConnecting 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…
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 MoreGoing High for Our Client: Serving Where Others Can’t
Before Laurel became our client, she could not get her church painted. Laurel is the on the Operations Council for the First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton (FUUSN). It is her responsibility to provide for the maintenance of the church buildings that feature much historic woodwork. We have been serving her and the FUUSN for…
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…
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