Can You Handle the Colour? Warline Transforms a Customer’s Home using Benjamin Moore Colour Stories As I mentioned in a previous post we just completed our first interior repaint using Colour Stories, Benjamin Moore’s new line of paint colours. We were trying this new colour palette at the same time we were testing driving our […]
Debunking Myths about Deck Staining When we finished our course to become Benjamin Moore Certified Stain Applicators, the first thing Warren said was “I feel sorry for the next person that asks Heidi about their deck”. Warren is my husband so he can get away with the occasional comment like this. So maybe I like […]
Are Your Deck Boards Installed Right Side Up? Part of the education at Benjamin Moore’s Certified Stain Applicator course the crew at Warline Painting took at the Poco Inn and Suites in Port Coquitlam last month was about understanding wood and wood construction. For all of us, it was the most eye opening part of the course. We […]
Cutting Corners can Cost You – Tips for Vancouver Heritage Homeowners There is no doubt that owning a heritage home in Vancouver has higher maintenance costs compared to owning a newer home. It can be tempting to look for ways to cut corners and save money when it comes to exterior painting. Here are a […]
When Should You get the Outside of Your House Painted? It hasn’t skipped my attention that the weather in Vancouver is getting slightly better. Funny thing about the sun. It gets people thinking about being outside again and all of those projects that need attention. Exterior painting and exterior house colours have been high on […]
Putting Bad Painters on Notice – Times are Changing If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, you’ve probably noticed that lately Warline has started posting photos of substandard paint jobs. The sad truth is that it’s not that hard to find a bad paint job. In fact, it’s pretty easy. Low standards and subpar […]
Not so Special, Painting Specials Have you seen one of those specials for painting where they will paint three rooms for $299? There was one I recently read online for a local painting company offering to paint a room for $80. Seriously? I see these deals all the time and they annoy me, to say […]
How to Get a Job With a Great Painting Company Warline is hiring painters. We are looking for full-time, professional, proficient painters. That means I have ads for jobs running all over the place. Whenever we put out ads that we are hiring, I inevitably find my inbox filled daily with resumes and applicants. You would think […]
Single Colour Paint Chips – Making Choosing Colours Easier I have a drawer full of paint chips. I didn’t mean to collect them. It just kind of happened over time. Lots of trips to the paint store and many (many) minutes spent standing in front of the wall of colour samples pondering possible combinations. We […]
Vancouver Paint Colours & Home Decorating Ideas: Colour Matching – Sin or Smart? I decided to write about colour matching as a result of a series of events that happened over the last couple of weeks. First, I had a designer blame a bad paint colour choice on a bad colour match. They wanted us […]