Filed under Interior Painting
Paint Protects Your Home. Don’t Defer Painting.
Stop and think about what you are asking your paint to do for you. On the exterior of your home you are asking it to stand up to changes of over 100 degrees over the seasons. It has to stand up to the expansion and contraction of the wood siding and other wood surfaces. And […]
Painting Estimates
You can buy a couch for $ 15,000.00. You can also furnish a three bedroom house for the same price. What’s the difference? The materials used and who made the furniture. The same is true with a paint job. The type of firm you hire (large with high overhead, or a small painting company like […]
New Construction Painting is Not the Same as a Repaint
The skills required to do a quality repaint are not the same skills required for new construction painting. But with the slow down in new housing construction, many new home construction painters are bidding on interior repaint projects, and they may give you a price that is too good to be true to get the […]
Why Paint Before Listing Your House?
So you’ve found your dream home. It meets all the needs of your growing (or shrinking) family and even has that three car garage you have been wanting. Your next call is to your trusted Realtor® to come over and give you advice about what you need to do to get your house ready for […]
Greg Mrakich Painting: Tips to Maintain Your Wood Windows (and Save Money on Window Replacements)
I have received more and more calls lately to re-paint or touch up the interior of wood windows. Windows are subjected to the extremes of weather causing them to expand and contract every day. When you consider the ‘oven effect’ of heavy blinds, curtains, drapes and shutters, it’s a lot for the wood and the […]
Blue Tape: the Professional Painters’ Choice for Clean Edges
I got a call the other day to do a paint estimate on a rental property. Although I don’t work on a lot of rental properties, this was close to home — in the Broad Ripple area of Indianapolis, so I thought I’d check it out. As it turns out, the prior renters went nuts […]
Selecting the Best Paint Finish for Walls and Trim
It used to be that walls were always done in a flat finish paint and the trim, and by trim I mean all woodwork, was painted with a gloss finish paint. The only exceptions were kitchens and bathrooms where everything was done using gloss paint. Times have changed. Today, when a house is built, the […]
Greg Mrakich’s Tips for Painting Wood Paneling
Many homes built in the 1950s through early 1980 have wood paneling in at least one room. Some of the paneling is very high end – solid wood tongue and groove and is a great addition to the look of the home. When I lived in Los Angeles, one of my customers had me paint […]
Greg Mrakich Painting: Tips to Reduce the Cost of Your Interior Painting Project
When a painting contractor gives you a price for your interior painting project, it is based on materials, time and overhead. You never want to go cheap on materials, and you really can’t do anything about your contractor’s overhead (other than hire a small company like Greg Mrakich Painting, Indianapolis, IN). Since I have no […]
Greg’s Interior Painting Tips: Bold Colors and Accent Walls
If you watch any home improvement programs (especially on HGTV), you may have noticed that bold room colors and accent walls are popular. Designers love to use bold colors. My Indianapolis area customers often ask me “is this color too much for this room?” So, today’s topic, when is a bold color right for a […]
