Best Tips for Painting Interior Doors Properly
Getting Started Painting interior doors can be a bigger project than you think if you are planning to do it yourself. Most homeowners can handle painting a few walls around the house with little to no experience. On the other hand, painting doors and other trim can...
Kitchen Cabinet Painting: Options, Colors, & Cost
One of the more popular trends in updating homes has moved from replacing kitchen cabinets to painting them instead. The cost of replacing cabinets and countertops is extremely high and sometimes does not give you a return on investment when you go to sell your...
Introducing Concrete Floor Coatings from Absolute Painting
Portland Area Concrete Floor Coatings Absolute Painting is excited about offering high performance industrial flooring to our residential, commercial and industrial contractors. We provide the highest level of preparation and give options to fit any budget or...
Choosing the Right Interior Painting Contractors
The United States painting industry’s total revenue in 2018 was over 43 billion dollars with an annual growth rate of 4.3%. With such rapid growth, the chance of contacting an interior painting contractor or company without the proper insurance and licensing is high,...
Is it Time to Paint the Exterior of Your Home?
Many homeowners in the Portland area are considering home projects this year and summer is a great time to tackle the outdoor tasks. People often ask me, "how do I know when to paint the exterior of my home?" It's not always an easy answer as every home is...
Plan your Exterior Paint Project Early
It is only March in the Portland area which means wet weather and likely lots more of that to come. You have been thinking it is about time to paint your home and 2019 is the year to do it. Not everyone thinks they need to plan this far ahead but you would be...
Cabinet Painting 101
We have been in business for 24 years this coming November which we are very excited and proud of. We started out doing small apartment painting and slowly moved into doing more residential and commercial work as we learned the ropes. Most of our work is now focused...
Painting Glossy Surfaces
An old friend of mine sent a message the other day about painting a glossy set of shelves in her classroom where she teaches. She asked is it possible to get paint to stick and be durable on a really glossy set of shelves. The answer is yes if it is done correctly....
Finding the right color
This week I had the opportunity to go to a class on color hosted by Rodda Paint. I took Beth who is our Color Expert and Carmen from our office who wants to get into color consulting and design. I had no idea how much I did not know about color and how people see it...
Building a new deck
So summer is fast approaching and you are looking outside at your old worn out deck or yard thinking this might be the year to build a new amazing deck for your home. Sounds like a fun project but you must do some serious planning and make some big choices to do a...
