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 […]
Chrysler, Eminem, Painting Contractors and Being Who We Are Anyone that blogs knows it is tough to do and this week I just wasn’t feeling very inspired to write about painting, colour or worse – drywall (bet you can’t wait for that one). Knowing I needed to get something out there just made writing that […]
Vancouver Painting Contractor Warranties and a 25 Year Warranty on a Three Dollar Knife I had a customer recently tell me that they got a painting quote from Certa Pro Painters, but the warranty the contractor promised her seemed too good to be true, and it made her uneasy. The contractor was offering her a […]
NOT SO NICE COMMENTS ABOUT HEIDI BEING NOT SO NEIGHBOURLY I told you I would report back on how my neighbours are responding to Not So Nice in My Neighbourhood. So far all is quiet in the hood. Which could be a good sign or a bad one. For now I still get a friendly smile […]
The Almost Nicest Navy House Now that I have cleared the air, it’s back to the business of calling out bad paint jobs. .This pretty navy-blue house almost made it on my nicest list. I have always loved the combo of this dark navy and white. I thought the blue was Benjamin Moore Hale Navy (HC-154) but […]