Posts by Tom Saint

Hardwood floors are a beautiful style choice, and currently, more popular than any other flooring material. However, if you have hardwood floors it’s crucial that you regularly care and maintain them so that they retain their beauty for years. Whether you’ve had hardwood floors for years, just had them installed or just scheduled a hardwood…

Choosing a good interior paint is like most pursuits. If you really want to find the right one, you need to spend time doing research and understanding your options. Failure to do so might result in a bad paint job or consequences as severe as damage to your walls. With such high stakes, you may…

The roof of your home has a very important job to do. It protects you and your family against all manner of things, which means its structural integrity is paramount to your safety. To ensure your roof lasts, you must take care of it by performing all the proper maintenance a roof needs. One great…

During the winter there’s a lot to think about in terms of winter projects like shoveling driveway snow and adding salt to your sidewalks. However, unfortunately for your hardwood floors, the road salt from parking lots, streets, or sidewalks will stick to the soles of your shoes and damage your flooring.  Here are a few…

Shopping for interior paint for your home involves a lot of decision making: from color and amount, to the level of VOCs. Many may be wondering what are VOCs? VOC is the abbreviation for volatile organic compounds. These are solvents within the paint that get released as the paint dries. You may be familiar with…

There was a time when wallpaper was all the rage. Interior design focused on wallpaper designs that were far less than subtle, and styles ranged from floral to textured. Today’s most elegant homes, though, rely on interior paint and brilliant paint illusions to create stunning visual effects that are timeless. Painting, versus paper application,  diminishes…

When you decide to use house paint, how long should you wait before returning to a room that has been freshly painted? That question is one that people should consider, but often do not. Paint fumes may not seem like a serious health concern, however they have been known to cause problems. Paint products do…

What are this year’s fall painting color trends? The answers may surprise you, but they are sure to please! Whether your interior painting project is just beginning or you are looking to enhance a previous project, this year’s fall color trends are really going to make a statement.

When it comes to old homes that clearly need a new exterior paint job, it’s not always as simple as painting over the old layer with a fresh coat of paint. In many cases older homes have been repainted so many times that the wood can’t hold any more layers. This doesn’t mean that the…

If you’re planning to change up the paint job of your home’s exterior exterior, it’s best to ensure that this project is completed when the weather is right.  While many people assume that exterior painting is best to complete when the weather is hot, so that the paint dries quickly, that isn’t exactly the case.…