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Add comment April 18th, 2012
Does your building have dirt on the exterior walls? After big storms, like hurricane Irene, the exterior of buildings often need some attention. While a complete repaint is not usually required, power-washing and small touch ups make sure that you get the most life out of your exterior paint. DJ’s painting offers extended service contracts, in addition to our outstanding painting services, that will ensure that your building always looks its best, and you get the most life out of your paint. Quarterly power-washings will also make your business look its best for your customers! Building cleanliness has a HUGE impact on how consumers view your business. Contact DJ’s painting today to find out more about what DJ’s painting can do to help your business look its best year around.
Add comment September 1st, 2011
The cleanlisness of a building has a huge impact of how customers view the business in that building. If you had the choice between two restaurants, and one had dirty, faded paint while the other looked fresh and clean, which would you pick? Luckily if your building is lacking in the looks department, DJ’s Painting can help. We’ve been making our clients look better since 1986, your account manager will be your one point of contact and has the knowledge to walk you through the entire process. With 25 years of painting nationwide under our belts, we’ve tackled just about every type of project available. We have the proper colors and specs for any kind of Quick Service Restaurants (QSR’s) .
McDonald's Before
Just take a look at our before and after pictures! Fresh Paint has a direct immediate impact on your sales. Our services are not only limited to painting, we can stripe your lot, replace rotted trim, wash your building, degrease your drive thru, paint your high sign and poles, and stain your curbs! Contact us now to get started immediately.
McDonald's After
Not sure where to start? Just contact us and we’ll walk you through everything! Just think of how many more customers will want to come into your business, because your building looks cleaner than every other business around you. Our services don’t end with paint. We want to help you get the most life out of your new paint, so we can also come and clean the exterior as needed. By power-washing your exterior we will be able to help you keep your paint looking brand new years after we painted it, which of course saves you money since you wont have to paint as often! Not sure if you can afford it? Just contact us for a free estimate!
Add comment September 1st, 2011
Planning a whole house palette is somewhat of an art. Of course, I don’t know your level of expertise. And yet, there’s one thing I’m absolutely sure of; neither novice nor expert will walk into a paint store, flash the dealer a smile and say: Surprise me!
So we need to start somewhere, which is why I created what I call a process palette–(click back for a refresher), a collection of the unchangeable colors I’m surrounded by.
Today, I’ve made up a quick drawing of my floor plan. Don’t panic on me now.:) Nothing fancy here–could be a layout of your space on the back of a Cheerios box. Let your kids draw it if you’re nervous, and then transfer each of your reference colors onto the drawing. Having a visual reference in hand which designates the placement of existing colors throughout the house will not only help you to maintain a pleasing flow, it will act as a knowledgeable and comforting friend, helping you to make your choices confidently.
Now it’s time to get busy, either working from or around the existing colors. As a practical matter, few of us can heave all of our furnishings or carpets into a dumpster and start from scratch. So we need to get our color fix in whatever rooms we have, that are willing to see it our way. In my house, the entry foyer is very willing!
Shaded by the portico outside, the entry is dark, and I’m going to use this circumstance to my color picking advantage. On a sunny day, and for most of the snowy winter, anyone who enters my house needs to take a minute to allow his or her eyes to adjust. People instinctively look up when this high contrast, light vs. dark transition thing happens. It’s sort of a “give me a sec while I get my bearings” moment. Because everyone who comes through my door needs a little time, and looks up, I’m going to add a very strong statement color to the ceiling. My guests and I will all have a color to admire while we gather ourselves.
Generally speaking, I would choose the warm blue grey of Winter Lake 2129-50 or Normandy 2129-40 for a space like this, and it would be lovely on my foyer ceiling for sure. But I don’t want to advance any kind of nautical or water inspired color reference. I also want to reduce the contrast inside the foyer as much as I possibly can, without turning it into a cave.
There’s a lot happening in this small space already. There’s lots of movement in the hand-painted black and white “wallpaper” and more pattern in the strie below (Blond Wood 1067, over Ivory White 925). The grey floor is neutral but a color all the same. The door is cherry and a tiny bit red. Plus, I have black, white, 2 beiges and a trim color. Seven colors in a 9′x9′ space; be brave my color companions!
Sometime in January, long before I began my color palette planning, I was standing near a window just before dark, looking east over the river. The sky was a most amazing combination of violet, lavender and purple; twilight, or as my photographer husband calls it, ‘magic hour.’ The colors settled deep into my color reference and lo and behold, here we have it: Bonne Nuit AF-635, along with the picture I hurried my husband to capture in January.
More than a splendid color for the ceiling in my foyer, this color turns up often–over the river, in the early blooms of crocus, and the purple magnolia trees, and on my reference plan. In truth, I picked the color without considering any of this, but I love it when my reference colors support a bold decision. How could I go wrong? Bonne Nuit AF-635 it is!
There’s one more tiny tweak I can add to the foyer to settle the entire collection of colors down, and bring the foyer into the adjoining living space . . . ten colors and counting–it’s going to be glorious. : )
Re-Blogged from http://livingincolorwithsonu.typepad.com/sonu_blog/2011/03/beginning-at-the-beginning.html
1 comment May 26th, 2011
With spring making its 2011 debut, my mind’s on green. Not just any kind of green. But unmistakable kelly, lime, and sage greens. As Dorothy Draper once wrote, “Although Mother Nature hasn’t written a book, she is continually giving us visual proof of her know-how when it comes to color.”
Green always hovers at the top of my personal color ranking system. I won’t, however, call it my favorite color, because I am a Libra, prone to diplomacy and fickleness. But, on a continual basis, green captures my attention and makes me happy.
Let’s begin with kelly. Kelly is glamorous, preppy, classic. There is something about this emerald hue, in large or small doses, that just perks up my whole being. And adding rain slicker yellow to the equation, is like getting an extra shot of espresso. To tame the sensory jolt, allow for plenty of white space, and then a dark blue or black for giving it some weight. Sharon Taylor bypassed gentle baby pastels when she designed this nursery. Feeling extra playful with bold hues, she specified 6″ painted ceiling stripes that’re sure to keep an infant mesmerized for hours. I venture to say that when this chic babe grows up to be a sophisticated schoolgirl, with some minor furnishing tweaks, the preppy palette shall survive.
Lime is another shade in high esteem that makes for some very juicy décor. With turquoise, and a room full of bamboo or wicker, the mood gets predictably tropical. In this Caribbean-colored library, however, Diamond Baratta Design steer clear of the islands and have me craving a martini rather than a piña colada. They do this by emphasizing the classic architecture with bright white paint, and by using fun hues on rather formal furnishings. A Pucci-inspired rug, impressively scaled, raises the bar to a new level of chic.
Whereas kelly and lime make my heart race, sage energizes in a subtle and soothing way. Sage is easy to live with, mellow and earthy–more like a trusted companion than a flashy new beau! I like to keep the palette au natural with rich sable, taupe, and wheat. Wholesome cream keeps the vibe fresh and airy. Glints of gold or even silver make it magical. For more pop, throw in some burnt orange found in an old kilim or vintage leather chair.
Lucky for me, I have kind and stylish friends across the globe who invite me to stay at their well-decorated homes. In Seattle, Ted Kennedy Watson and Ted Sive always have a special room for me. Watson, an award winning retailer and master of merchandising, adores green too. The room was painted seven years ago and Watson says, “I still walk into that room and think how much I love it!”
Re-Blogged From http://livingincolorwithsonu.typepad.com/sonu_blog/2011/03/greens-are-good-for-you.html
Add comment May 26th, 2011
If you own a television, chances are you’ve seen the Kohler faucet commercial, where a well-heeled client plunks a trendsetting faucet onto her architect’s desk and suggests: “Design a house around this.” It’s not as far fetched an idea as you might think. Let’s suppose the thing being plunked onto a desk was a paint color. What to do? Designers might identify any color that an entire palette is planned around as a “bridge” color. In general, color experts assign the word “core,” to a single hue that links a palette together. I chose to work my whole house color palette around the winning combination of black+white. An ambitious choice for a bridge color? Take a look!
“Bridge” is an accurate description for any color which will unify a palette. A good bridge color will link differing hues together and act as a buffer between even seemingly incompatible color combinations. Since maintaining a pleasing flow of color from room to room makes sense, it’s equally sensible to link your color transitions together with any single repetitive hue. Unlike a neutral color, an ambiguous color is generally much more complex. When in doubt, remember that any color that’s hard to describe or name is likely to be an ambiguous color. Here are some of the hard to describe darlings of ambiguity:
If you have a beautiful room that falls a little flat, the addition an ambiguous bridge color will solidify the color scheme and add weight or ground the palette. Beyond that, repeating an ambiguous color selection throughout a house is the easiest trick to I know to maintain the flow of color from room to room while harmonizing the color scheme overall. Test this concept in any room where the color choice appears tentative, especially a room that feels a little boring or blah, and you’ll see how powerful the repetition of a weighty color can be! The theory is simple–a good bridge color adds interest and balance to a colorful palette and, more importantly, advances the entire palette overall. How will I add black+white to six rooms without having my house appear a poor interpretation of a vintage Chanel suit? Easy–a combination of re-interpreted, classic, black+white finishes and a few enhancements to my existing black+white influences.
As predicted, Bonne Nuit AF-635 visually lowers the foyer ceiling, which adds a comforting intimacy to the entry. You’ll recall I hoped to offer my guests a reason to pause in the entry and gather themselves together. At night, the mirrored Moravian chandelier dances across the subtle semi-gloss sheen, and so far, everyone is happy to linger awhile! Take a look at how the starkness of the high contrast black and white hand painted “wallpaper” grew more subdued under its new purple “sky.” The design is borrowed from a platter I was enticed to buy at Pottery Barn. I’ll include the info of how to reproduce borrowed or found designs for you next week, when I reveal another smashing black+white paint finish I’ve been working on. Never forget that while my colors may not necessarily be your colors, the techniques themselves are no less effective!
I had to battle my love of crisp white trim and the need for a warmer, creamy white, to compliment the existing strie. Choosing any color is always a process of elimination. Once I taped up each shade of white I was considering, I forced myself to eliminate my usual favorites–Paradise Beach 911, which is too pink, and Palace White 956, which is too grey.
I looked at the chips in the daylight and at night and, knowing the purple ceiling would influence the white hues, I waited until the ceiling was finished too. One by one, I eliminated. Using scissors, I unceremoniously cut the chips to the beat of my opinions; too grey, too yellow, too white; snip, snip, snip. Finally, I arrived at a perfectly creamy beige, which is a near exact match to the existing strie combination. Refining the contrast of the trim color, to a near straight match to the wall finish, expands the wall perimeter. Each door is framed by 3 inches or more of trim on either side; 8 x 3 = 24 inches. It’s subtle, but I gained over two feet of consistent perimeter wall by virtue of my balanced trim color. This is one sure way to make a space feel larger–reduce the surrounding trim color contrast.
My final color tweak in the foyer begins to answer the call for must-have furnishings, and all the plain-old stuff a functional entry foyer, needs to have. Besides adding some heft to the diminutive nature of the salvaged closet door, the tiny band of spicy, nearly green, brown, (Buckthorn 987) will lend it’s cooperative nature to brass and wood surfaces elsewhere in the house. It will also be a great ally to me when I begin the hunt for a super practical area rug that can withstand the perils of muddy boots. Surely a trip to West Elm is in order? I have many options for a rug now, which is good, because most color pros would suggest selecting the rug before painting the walls! Ah, we’re learning how to be brave colorists around here aren’t we?
The foyer still needs a dazzling mirror, something high gloss to take the “grandma” away and a chair. For right now, I’m mesmerized by the Bonne Nuit, and thrilled I was able to enhance the big color winner in the room–the black+white wall finish. Contact DJ’s Painting today to get some new color in your home.
Re-Blogged From http://livingincolorwithsonu.typepad.com/sonu_blog/2011/04/winning-colors-for-an-entrance-foyer.html
1 comment May 26th, 2011
I’ve been fighting a bout of writer’s block today, trying to string together a compelling sentence to describe my sort of trendy, color driven, not entirely necessary, but definitely dreamy, kitchen update plans! Whew. Thanks to the future King and Queen of England, William and Kate, I’m feeling more confident with my word choice: marriage!
Having dreamed up a design in which style meets practicality, there’s simply no better way to describe how I plan to work every mix-and-match design trend, into a few well-conceived color solutions, for the few things my kitchen is lacking. By all measure, it’s looking like a marriage made in design heaven is about to unfold.
My kitchen is not exactly lacking. I’ve gloated a bit about my Blue Star range, custom painted to match Benjamin Moore’s August Morning.
I have more than enough cabinets, all of which are custom-made solid maple. Helpers in my kitchen find the full extension self-closing Blum hinges entertaining, while I prefer to dwell on the expert hand painted finish I applied, which is easy to keep clean, and lends a timeless dignity to the kitchen in a manner only white painted kitchen cabinetry can.
But there’s still work to be done. The backsplash has stood naked for over two years. I’ve painted it more than once but, while it has held up to the daily wear and tear of kitchen activities perfectly, it lacks enough visual interest to support it’s expanse. It seems an easy fix to tile it, but I’ve got a better idea and have planned a repurposed and salvaged backsplash. It’s a marriage of color and materials that just might work perfectly in your kitchen, too.
The pantry is roomy, and the salvaged glass door helps blur the fact that it is newly built. When the glass was mistakenly frosted, by an overzealously sprayed polyurethane finish, I left it alone and considered the resulting obscured glass a happy accident.
We all have our obsessions in the kitchen, and no other room in the house reflects our personal lifestyle more. Some of us are clean freaks, who prefer empty counter surfaces, and an “all things out of sight” philosophy. Some of us cook and some of us microwave. I once designed a six-by-nine foot kitchen for a young couple who happily prepared their every meal in the toaster oven, and decided to forgo an oven entirely in exchange for an under-counter wine cooler. I’ve had clients who claim sixty feet of counter surface is their minimum requirement, and outfit every inch of usable space with gadgets and prep stations you’d expect to find in a restaurant.
No matter your lifestyle, the one thing I know for certain about designing a great kitchen is this: it needs to function as beautifully as it looks. Having stood watch over the demolition of more kitchens than I can count, I can offer up the second thing I know for sure about keeping a kitchen up to date and efficient: it needs to be paid attention to regularly–sounds like a marriage to me! While other rooms in our homes can be fussed over for a while and then simply lived in, it pays to revisit the needs of your kitchen on a regular basis. The walls, cabinets, floors, counter surfaces, and even your choice of materials or lighting, can grow worn and tired in no time. Rather than let it all age gracefully, a systematic sprucing up to keep your kitchen looking fresh and well loved, is the single best way to avoid super expensive renovations and improvements. Contact DJ’s Painting today, to get your kitchen project started today!
ReBlogged From http://livingincolorwithsonu.typepad.com/sonu_blog/2011/05/marrying-the-best-kitchen-colors-to-trendy-updates.html
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Add comment May 11th, 2011
Brick, and stone and other masonry products are some of the most common, and durable building materials that are used, but they also absorb water like sponges. Water absorption can lead to cracks and crumbling as well as leading to ugly exteriors, with white chalky salt deposits left from water entering and evaporating through the porous surface. Also if water is entering your exterior walls, it can render your insulation useless, and increase your energy costs. This is why properly sealing your exterior surfaces is so vital. When installing new brick or stone, it is important to include sealing as part of the work scope. For existing stone and brick, have it sealed now to maintain and prolong the life of what is already in place. DJ’s painting has sealed hundreds of buildings and helped owners keep maintenance and energy costs as low as possible. Contact DJ’s Painting today to see how we can help you maintain your building.
Add comment May 11th, 2011
DJ’s painting can help save your business money through lowering your energy costs. One way we can do this is through the application of EPOX-Z NRG© cool roof coatings. EPOX-Z NRG© cool roof coatings is specifically developed to conserve energy by maintaining cooler interior temperatures, while reflecting sunlight.
Having a reflective roof, not only helps your building’s energy costs, but will also help cool the area around your building. In urban settings most buildings absorb heat and retain it, this is known as “urban island heat effect.” The phenomenon is characterized by an increase in the ambient air temperatures in cities, when compared to adjacent, less developed areas. A major cause is heat absorption and release by surfaces such as pavement and roofs, which leads to increased demand for air conditioning.
EPOX-Z NRG coatings offers benefits that many competing products do not:
EPOX-Z NRG coatings are Energy Star® compliant and meet the latest standards of the International Energy Conservation Code. They also post impressive rating on three vital ASTM roof-coating criteria: permeability, blistering and chalking.
Contact DJ’s Painting today to start saving energy costs for your building.
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