by Nigel Costolloe | Jun 21, 2022 | Interior Painting
There’s a great business book by Marcus Buckingham called First, Break All The Rules; it pertains to management, but the title would be fitting for the rules around color dos and don’ts these days. When it comes to interior house painting and inspirational ideas, it’s...
by Contempo Solutions | Dec 31, 2021 | Exterior Painting, Farrow & Ball, Interior Painting
Colors of the Year 2022 New England’s cold gray winter months are fast approaching, a time of year we could all use a bit more color to brighten our days and warm our homes. Perhaps it’s fitting that the end-of-year marks the design and painting industry’s very own...
by Contempo Solutions | Mar 13, 2021 | Home Improvement, Interior Painting
There is no place more delightful than one’s own fireplace. Marcus Tullius Cicero Here in cold, snowy New England, we often find ourselves hunkered down seeking the comfort of life indoors where nothing (to borrow from Cicero) is more delightful than a fireplace. Walk...
by Nigel Costolloe | Jan 14, 2021 | Farrow & Ball, Home Improvement, Interior Painting, Residential Interior Painting
Restroom, powder room, master, or guest, over the course of the last 100 years, bathrooms have evolved from utilitarian, functional spaces clad in stark fixtures and cold tile to more carefully curated, spa-like retreats. Today’s bathrooms are sometimes bold,...
by Nigel Costolloe | Sep 1, 2020 | Historic Restoration, Interior Painting, Kitchens, Residential Interior Painting
When one thinks about the color palette of a historic home’s interior, specific hues come to mind. Victorian homes tended to be painted in colors that reflected what was available from plant-based pigments, such as earth tones like eggplant, ochre, hues of green and...
by Eileen Jones | Feb 25, 2020 | Historic Restoration, Interior Painting, Residential Interior Painting, Wood Restoration
“Spring is just around the corner!” So says groundhog and weather sage Punxsutawney Phil. Those of us who spend our winters cozy and buttoned up securely in our homes greet the spring with opening the windows, literally and figuratively, and begin to breathe again....
