by Eileen Jones | May 13, 2020 | Blog, Brookline, Exterior Painting, Historic Restoration
Painting the exteriors of older homes throughout the Boston area for decades, we at Catchlight have been presented with everything from weather-worn siding to rotting window casements to the presence of lead. This stately Victorian located in Brookline, MA had many of...
by Nigel Costolloe | Feb 10, 2018 | Exterior Painting, Historic Restoration, Home Improvement, Interior Painting, Residential Interior Painting, Water Damage
Here in New England the reason most paint peels is because the paint coating has become too thick and inflexible. Old homes wearing their original siding and trim can have over 15 coats over them – as the wood expands and contracts with temperature and humidity...
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 | Jun 12, 2015 | Blog, Exterior Painting, Historic Restoration, Interior Painting
A homeowner Mike in the Chicago area found us via this blog and after checking us out on Angie’s List called to pick my brain about primers. His predicament reminded me of the confusion that surrounds the use and purpose of primers before painting. He had been given...
by Nigel Costolloe | Jan 31, 2015 | Blog, Boston Painters, Exterior Painting, Interior Painting, Professional Painting Company
At Catchlight Painting, we’ve always put families first. We believe in recognizing and honoring the significant events in our employee’s lives. From work anniversaries to birthdays, from paternity leave to bereavement, we understand that to ask our...
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...
