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It's one of the first questions that comes up when you start a painting job: should you use a brush or a roller? In the photo above, you can see a situation in which a roller is your best friend. The surfaces being painted are large and flat, and it's all one color. The roller will make quick work of those areas. In the photo below, you see the ki...
When we think about the prep work for painting, we think first about preparing the surface.This is one of the most important factors in getting a really professional result on a painting job. That's not all the prep work that needs doing, though. In the picture above, a beautiful heritage job by Courtney & Wise, you can see the surface prepara...
Your mental image of painting a house may be one bloke on a ladder, but scaffolding will make all the difference in the job. You can see some scaffolding in the picture above, taken at the worksite of a job done by Sydney painters Courtney & Wise . Unlike ladders, scaffolding is a fairly solid structure built around the building being painted....
Details make all the difference in home decorating, and paint can pick out the details in a very beautiful way. Here's a heritage project Courtney & Wise did last year. Let's look at some of the special details. The lamp's a beaut, and the medallion, picked out in fresh white paint, shows it off to perfection. The scrollwork in the window, in ...
No, not that kind of wall art. We're talking about patterns for DIY embellishments for your walls! You've seen clever handpainted murals or stenciling, but these patterns are made for you to try on your own. Wattyl has a fun collection of Loony Toons wall art ideas for kids' rooms. Download the simple templates for free and follow the sugges...
This year, new Work Health & Safety rules replaced the old OH&S regulations. At Courtney & Wise, we've always taken the health and safety of our workmen and of our customers very seriously, and we're fully compliant with the new regulations, just as we were with the older ones. Here are the major changes affecting painters: Tradesmen l...
The price of any service is based on the time and skill involved in performing the service. The costs of the materials used in the service are also taken into account, but you're not just buying the materials, so that won't be the largest part of the expense. This is as true of painting as of anything else. The price of the paint is not the most i...
Choosing paint for your home or commercial building can be more complicated than it seems at first. Often, the colour is the first thing you think of. When you find a colour you love, you feel that you've found the right paint. However, paint can be custom-mixed to match that perfect colour. The first think to consider is actually whether yo...
We don't know the origin of this cartoon (please let us know if you do, and we'll credit it), but it seems like a good way to clarify the idea of tone in interior painting. A basic colour, like red or blue, is a hue . Take a red hue and add white to it and you'll end up with a tint . In this case, you'll get a lighter red and then, as you add more...
Synthetic paints have some real advantages. They don't generally react chemically with the surfaces they're painted on, or with underlying paints, as natural paints can. They can be more durable, as well, and the cost may be lower. Synthetic paints have some serious problems. Most are based on petroleum, and since they're oil-based, they're ...
Inspiration for home decorating can come from magazines, books, and television shows. It can come from things you saw on your travels or your favorite colours or a piece of pottery or your own back garden. Some inspirations are easier to translate than others, though. Seeing a room you love with a particular style of divan or a particular sort of ...
Once you've completed the evaluation and inspiration steps, you're ready to create your new room decorating plan. You need to get this down somewhere where you can refer to it in the future, so grab some paper or choose an online tool like these: BH&G Room Arranger Floorplanner Room Planner Divide the room into areas with the functions you've ...
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