There are many types of finishes one can get when buying a kitchen, wooden, laminate, spray painted and hand painted kitchens. This blog asks the question why have a hand painted kitchen? Well I over heard two women talking in the paint shop about how expensive hand painted kitchens can […]
Another thing we are asked to do on a regular basis is to hand-paint varnished wooden kitchens, this is much the same as painting laminate kitchens, in that they need to be sanded down preparing the surface for the appropriate primer, before undercoating can begin. After priming and undercoating a […]
Here we have an example of a client of ours letting one of their favourite picture help in deciding some of the colour for their hall in their home. Here the picture brings out the colour on the wall and the wall brings out the colours in the painting, and […]
When we do commercial jobs, this is when we would mostly be asked to match RAL colours, to existing colours on logos and signage , this way the painted colours blend with existing colour schemes. As we can see in this example of the Core Credit Union in Dalkey Co […]
Here we had a case of a perfectly normal 3 bed semi in wicklow, and the owner cleverly decided to paint everything white, I must say it added a great deal of light and looked quite chic. It also enabled the owner to put absolutely anything in the way of […]
Here we see the various stages that go into stripping a Door with a heat gun, after stripping the steps are much the same, but here we polished the brass also completing the look! […]
Here we have another example of a fully restored ceiling, which we stripped of its old lining paper with exposed cracks coming through, filled those cracks and lined ceiling with fibre glass covering. Then we painted two coats of white emulsion to finish. follow link for more examples of ceiling […]
This is how to really transform your kitchen without the total expense of changing your entire kitchen. In this example we painted the walls and ceiling, then removed all the handles and filled all the holes so they are completely invisible, this way; the new handles on the newly hand […]
Stripping wall paper using stripping solution, and or warm soapy water, Firstly if it is vinyl paper you will have to score the surface to help the water absorb into the paper, similarly if the wall paper has been painted over you would also score the paper. One can do […]
First of all it is important to do the proper preparation in order to do a really nice job on your windows or door. So you will need to strip off the old product first. You do this in a number of ways, using a heavy duty scraper ( used […]
