Catchlight Painting Blog
Water in Buildings
We have the privilege of tending to some of Boston’s grand old homes and we have learned that ongoing maintenance is the best approach to keep these buildings in top shape. The photograph below is taken from a gorgeous Federal house in Brookline, one that was...
We’re Paint Nerds, and Proud of It!
I’m not sure why our craft is called painting when the vast majority of our time is spent preparing surfaces for paint. Invited to repaint the back deck of a gorgeously detailed home in Brookline, we find a paint failure common to newer construction. The wood in the...
Paint Color Advice for Your Ceiling
There’s a great outfit just outside Philadelphia that is a valuable resource to we painting professionals, the Paint Quality Institute, www.paintquality.com. The institute’s mission is to inform and educate the professional as well as the consumer. Their Director of...
Spring Cleaning
It’s an appropriately wintry April 1st to write a blog about last winter’s remarkably damaging weather. This past month we have seen a significant rise in the number of projects related to ice dams. We were lucky enough to avoid such calamities at our home, but Mother...
Techniques & Tricks for Painting on Ceilings
Ceiling paint is typically the cheapest and lowest tech coating we apply. Not by choice, mind you – the market has decided since ceilings are low maintenance surfaces, white ceiling paints should be cheaper than wall and trim coatings. Reasonable logic, I suppose....
Being a “Go-To” Painting Company: The Bull in a Bear Market
And from our cold case files, an article written by Justin Keane a year ago, but one that still resonates today Much to my wife’s chagrin, I willingly and somewhat credulously engage with some of the more far-flung segments of popular culture—to wit, more often than...
Seasonal Cracks in Walls? New England Winters, Botox, and Your Home
For those of us who have left behind our younger years, the cold dry air of winter can offer up insults beyond mere inconvenience and discomfort. I refer to the additional 10 years winter air can add to our age as a new facial topography emerges. Wrinkles appear...
Historic Home Renovation in Newton Highlands
From the Desk of Rachel Melat-Robnett, Catchlight Foreman We are lucky to reside in a region as beautiful and historic as New England. For many of us, simply taking a stroll down the street for cup of coffee can actually be a small trip through the past. Do you ever...
When It Comes to House Paints, You Get What You Pay For
Recently Fine Paints had a Saturday shop visit from a longtime client – a retired professor of Economics at nearby Dartmouth College. The Professor made a few points about consumer behavior and Fine Paints in particular that any Fine Paints client might find thought...
Sanctuary
From the Desk of Rachel Melat-Robnett , Catchlight Foreman: Our homes are our sanctuaries: We carefully arrange our wedding photos among candle holders, miniatures and remembrances. We angle photographs of children, friends, and family just so on mantels and side...
