by Nigel Costolloe | Dec 18, 2020 | Back Bay, Blog, Kitchens, Newton
“Everything happens in the kitchen. Life happens in the kitchen.” – Andrew Zimmern It is often said that the kitchen is the heart of every home. It is where friends and family gather, the room from where wonderful aromas come wafting through the house, and the...
by Nigel Costolloe | Sep 28, 2015 | Back Bay, Blog, Exterior Painting, Historic Restoration
Walking through my Brookline neighborhood with Huey the rescue-but-what-have-you-done-for-me-lately dog this weekend, I stopped to admire the rehabilitation of a historic mansion that had been neglected for many years. The developer seems to have done a decent job, at...
by Nigel Costolloe | Mar 19, 2015 | Back Bay, Blog
I’ve always considered the residential painting industry a little like the old Wild West – largely unregulated, filled with independent minded, go-it-alone types. In industry parlance reference is made to painters who operate on the margins as station...
by Nigel Costolloe | Jul 28, 2014 | Back Bay, Blog, Boston, Exterior Painting, Professional Painting Company, Wood Restoration
When it comes to painting mahogany, there is no ‘normal’ color. We stripped a virtually opaque mahogany exterior stain on a clear coated roof deck in Boston’s Back Bay earlier this summer; since the deck was built over an EPDM membrane we couldn’t use any acid washes...
by Nigel Costolloe | Apr 27, 2014 | Back Bay, Kitchens
Recently we were asked to paint kitchen cabinets in a Back Bay home on Marlborough street; the original finish had been sprayed on the doors but the boxes were brushed and showed minute contamination – rubbing the finish revealed a slight texture consistent with...
by Nigel Costolloe | Feb 25, 2013 | Back Bay, Boston, Boston Painters, Interior Painting
Often, in recent blogs and on our website we discuss the importance of painting preparation and proper applications to surfaces before any painting begins. The pictures below are of a recent project in Boston’s Back Bay. The repair and preparation work that is shown...
