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What are your business plans for 2013? The last few weeks have been tough; you have had to lay guys off because of the winter, you are struggling to fill up your board, you wonder if you will make it through the months ahead. Of course you will! This is because you are in the […]
Belonging to a professional organization can provide resources to any painting company, PDCA is a great example. There are many services that they offer, such as: Contractor College Find a Painter Industry news There are many benefits to belonging to this type of of group. Another example is the upcoming event event in Chicago, Advanced Shop Talk […]
Dear Contributors and Readers, Blogging Painters is now celebrating its first anniversary. In that short time, the site has become a valuable and essential online resource for the painting industry. We couldn’t have done it without you and we are grateful and appreciative. When we launched BP we hoped it would be a place for […]
I have been in the painting business for 30 years. Like many of us “old dogs” change is a foreign word analogous to using waterborne finishes on interior trim. Nevertheless, I would like to think wisdom is one of our strengths, and the waterborne finishes are actually quite nice, therefore I have accepted change into my business operations as well.
If you are a painter that likes to keep on top of trends, the latest one to emerge in color and paint is something called full-spectrum color. Basically it is color created from a minimum of five colorants and without the use of black or gray in the mix. The result is richer and bolder […]
A warm, steaming cup of coffee, mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, chicken soup, these are all foods that are very comforting – they make us feel good! That’s what we want in our homes, color that makes us feel good. What are those “feel good” colors? Grab your coffee, sit down and come with me. […]
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For many years, I ran my own firm as a general contractor doing residential remodeling in the Dallas, Texas area. Later on, I began to specialize in bathroom remodeling and published a few articles on that subject. I grew my firm to where we were doing 3 remodels at one time and I was very […]
The Blogging Painters are an eclectic group of business owners whom are passionate about the painting industry. Sounds kind of silly doesn’t it? Like a bunch of guys who like watching paint dry? But it is more than that! Let me tell you how it came about. While my husband manages the day to day […]
