by Nigel Costolloe | Jul 13, 2018 | Boston, Kitchens
As a professional residential and commercial painting company serving Greater Boston, we are asked at least once a week to price a kitchen project. This used to mean a small and quick project – ceiling, minimal walls, maybe a few windows and a door or two. These...
by Nigel Costolloe | Mar 4, 2017 | Community Service
As a local Newton business and community partner, we are pleased to announce that Catchlight has become the official painter for all future Room to Dream Foundation projects. Over the past 10 years, Catchlight has worked on four charity paint projects with the...
by Nigel Costolloe | Feb 9, 2017 | Historic Restoration
The antique and venerable homes of historic New England are beautiful to look at and the innumerable picture postcard images of the classic clapboard homes are unmistakably of a style and vernacular unique to our region. Those of us who live in these homes are all...
by Nigel Costolloe | Dec 14, 2013 | EPA-RPP, Exterior Painting, Historic Restoration, History, Lead-Safe Certified, Wood Restoration
Old New England homes, peeling paint and a permanent, lifetime paint coating? I don’t think so. This summer we embarked upon the restoration of a 200 year old farmhouse in Stow. Initially we had assumed our city pricing would be a deterrent but further conversation...
by Nigel Costolloe | Sep 21, 2012 | Belmont, Environmentally Friendly Paints, EPA-RPP, Exterior Painting, Wood Restoration
In these photos below we have removed all flaking paint from a Belmont, MA home. The exterior walls looked sound from a distance but up close, each shingle showed a latticework of cracked paint – in painting parlance this is called ‘alligatoring’. It...
