Color Touch Painting
House Painting Trends for 2025: Colors and Concepts That Are Transforming Homes As we settle into 2025, house painting trends are evolving beyond aesthetics to reflect our shifting lifestyles, environmental concerns, and desire for personalization. Whether you’re planning a full renovation or just looking to refresh a room, the latest color palettes and paint techniques Read more...
The Power of Color: The color of your walls may seem like a simple aesthetic choice, but its impact runs deeper than mere decoration. Research suggests that the colors surrounding us can have profound effects on our mood, behavior, and even productivity. From calming blues to energizing yellows, the psychology of wall color is a Read more...
I was talking to a potential client and they told me about a San Francisco restoration artist who's created a line of ornamental plaster (cartouches, scrolls, onlays, medallions..) They will be using one of her Cartouches on the front of their San Francisco home. Her name is Lorna Kollmeyer. She's got a great website! Check Read more...
An interesting thing about the new Glidden Stores. Over a decade ago, several US paint brands (Fuller O'Brien, Sinclair, and Glidden among them) were bought out by the international giant ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries). Former Fuller Obrien/Sinclair locations were converted into ICI/Dulux stores. Dulux is an internationally available brand of paint, produced by AkzoNobel (formerly Read more...
I'd like to mention a neat product called prepLESS by Global Encasement, an encasement product for covering lead and asbestos. PrepLess was designed to "encapsulate" lead and asbestos, and it sticks, holds, breathes and stretches, making it a very tenacious and durable coating (according to the manufacturer). We first applied it to a badly weathered (chalky, Read more...
We recently used XIM Peel Bond’s Trim Magic, a low VOC, high-build primer, recommended for smoothing out rough surfaces including crackled paint and T1-11. We used it on a peeling stucco substrate to help blend the patches. We found that the product leveled well, and formed a smooth, flexible, low-lustre film. Recommended dry film thickness Read more...
For those seeking an eco friendly solution to stripping paint, I just heard about a soy-based paint stripper made by Franmar Chemical. A description follows: "Want a better way to remove paints, urethanes, acrylics, epoxies, and enamels without the back-breaking work of sanding and chiseling? Made with 100% American Grown Soybeans, SOY Gel does all Read more...
New EPA RRP Rules regarding lead paint take effect April 22, 2010
Last year we painted the exterior of "Pet Camp", a pet-boarding facility in San Francisco. The exterior of this building is factory painted corrugated steel, and there was a fair amount of visible rust. We needed a product that would handle the rust, without the fumes or mess of traditional "red-oxide" rust converters. We researched Read more...
