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 […]
How to Get a Beautiful Deck A big deck with a view of the mountains can truly be a thing of beauty for any Vancouver homeowner who wants to enjoy a long summer evening; our reward for the dark, cold and wet days we endure throughout the winter months. A gorgeous wood deck might be […]
Love Thy Neighbour’s House Colour? Not everyone follows the commandment “Love Thy Neighbour” but most of us are smart enough to appreciate that at the very minimum keeping things friendly with the people that live around you is wiser than the alternative. Which is why I have put off writing this series of articles for the last […]
Count the Colour Mistakes – Exterior Paint Sins from My Neighbourhood So far, I received a pretty warm response about my new series Not So Nice in My Neighbourhood. Mind you I haven’t heard anything from my neighbours. I’ll keep you posted on how that goes. So are you ready for my first neighbourhood house? Here […]