Understanding the Color Wheel: How to Choose Paint Colors
Whether you're painting your home or your business, choosing the right color scheme may be the most important decision you make. Beyond the simple aesthetics of your choice, color has power. It can overwhelm, calm, energize, or inspire. Understanding the color palette...
The Best Color-Matching Apps for Android and IOS
One of the quickest, most cost-effective ways to update a room is with a fresh paint job. The challenge, of course, is finding the perfect color. You gather paint samples and even test them out in different light but can’t quite picture that little swatch...
Things to Consider When Painting a House in Phoenix
It may seem as simple as brush, roll, and spray, but creating the perfect exterior paint job requires a certain level of expertise, particularly when working in an extreme climate such as what we have in Phoenix. Add in the high winds the Valley often...
Comparing Commercial and Residential Painting: Is There a Difference?
To many people, there's no comparing commercial painting and residential painting. A pro is a pro, after all, and isn't all painting basically the same thing? The short answer is: not really. Of course, the basics are the same no matter how...
Restoring Sun-Damaged Surfaces
Sunlight works a number on most materials and surfaces, especially when that sun is as powerful as what we get in the Phoenix valley. Heat and sunlight degrade plastics, wood, paint, and much more. The type of damage sustained depends on the...
Elastomeric Paint Coatings for Exteriors: Is it Worth the Extra Cost?
For an exterior, waterproof finish that holds up against heat and cold, sunlight and rain, many contractors choose elastomeric paint. These paints create a thick coating that adheres to most masonry surfaces, such as concrete block and stucco,...
Property Maintenance Upkeep
Everyone understands the importance of maintaining the aesthetic appeal of a commercial building in order to appeal to customers and clients. Business owners and property managers want to ensure anyone coming in or even just driving by sees an attractive,...
Getting Ready for the Holidays: Give Your Home a Face Lift with a Fresh Coat of Paint
The holidays are times of joy and good cheer, but they can also cause moments of panic, especially with company coming to stay. For many people, this time of year serves as inspiration to finally complete all of those home improvement projects...
How Paint Colors Influence Buyers
For decades, people have talked about the effect of color on emotions. Color's influence can be difficult to gauge. Though there have been numerous studies on the many ways color influence emotion, such as pink's ability to calm aggression,...
Healing Colors for Healthcare
The idea that color plays a role in psychology and emotion, and even has physiological effects, is not new. Consider some common sayings: red with anger…feeling blue…green with envy. These are more than catchy sayings. Color truly has an effect...