When it comes to your business, creating a positive first impression is crucial. The appearance of your commercial space plays a significant role in attracting customers, establishing your brand identity, and creating a welcoming atmosphere. Professional commercial painting is an essential investment that can transform your […]
Changing the interior design of an Albuquerque house will be too expensive if furniture will have to be replaced. What could be the simplest solution? Change the interior painting of the house! Not only that it is the cheapest way, but it will also change the […]
What is October’s prime color? Orange, of course—the whole range of harvest shades of turning leaves and gathered crops that denote the end of the annual growing season. And the month ends with an orange-and-black holiday, where you’ll see more of the hue than at any […]
Need a painting idea for your Albuquerque home? Whether you are looking to freshen up a room or trying to increase your home’s resale value, a fresh coat of paint can work wonders. Once you have an idea of what you are looking for in a […]
Many Albuquerque homeowners shudder at the thought of interior painting. It is considering a chore: tedious, boring and not much fun. However, by utilizing the following tips, you can decrease painting time and get to the activities that you prefer. Of course you can save the […]
If you do not have much time to do house painting on your own and you have the proper budget to spend, then you can choose to get the service of a house painter. This would save you a lot of time and would surely steer […]
For types of dirt that are extremely difficult to remove, Albuquerque power washing or pressure washing is considered as the most effective method of washing them away. The reason is because power washing cleans surfaces using power, chemicals, and heat. With all these three properties working […]
In accomplishing a house painting task, to choose the right colors can be really tedious and daunting all at the same time. The exterior paint of your house would generally depend on the colors of the immediate environment that surrounds it. But of course, you can […]
A painting contractor can be anyone with a general career background. All of them, like an artist, have their own styles and techniques when it comes to various painting tasks, whether it is for home or business. So when you decide to hire a painting contractor, […]
Can the choice of paint color have an effect on the productivity of employees? What about warm color being used as a tool to enhance the comfort level of employees? Can certain paint colors promote harmony stability and yes, even camaraderie? Which paint colors will promote clear fresh thinking, […]
Painting the interior or exterior of a house is a vast project that requires a lot of preparation and challenges. Taking up this restoration work on your own is impossible. The best way to go about it is to hire a licensed, qualified painting contractor who […]
To have interior painting done in your home to improve its aesthetic value can really be a wonderful investment. This is especially true when you have the plans of selling it. It all starts with considering to do a repainting job for your home. Interior painting […]
By John Freeman – Owner, Cutting Edge Painting, Inc. Stucco finishes, while popular in the Southwest, have deep historical roots. A durable, attractive and weather-resistant wall covering, it was traditionally used both indoors and outdoors, applied in thin layers over a solid surface and textured for appearance. Stucco […]
When you were just starting out in the adult world, I’m sure you remember how your free time was spent washing your windows, landscaping your yard, or even attempting to paint your house – either for budgetary reasons or simply because you were a home improvement […]
By John Freeman – Owner, Cutting Edge Painting, Inc. We homeowners are a funny lot. A photo from the internet or an e-mail from a family member or friend with a gorgeous home design jump-starts a primal button in our brains. “It’ll only take a day at the […]
By John Freeman – Owner, Cutting Edge Painting, Inc. A couple of weeks ago, you may have seen #thedress debacle. An internet sensation, it was a photo of a dress from a wedding reception that someone was selling online. Oddly, some people saw the dress as gold and […]
By John Freeman – Owner, Cutting Edge Painting, Inc. Here in the Land of Enchantment, we usually get a “February Thaw.” For us locals, it means that our springtime plants and bulbs may start to sprout, and it’s the calm before the storm of our famous spring […]
By John Freeman – Owner, Cutting Edge Painting, Inc. You may be a weekend warrior when it comes to tasks around your house. Landscaping, cleaning, small construction projects – you’ve done them all! And painting seems to be a simple, fun way to spruce up your surroundings. However, […]
It may be difficult to understand why a deck seems to weather so quickly. It turns gray from the weather and fades quickly. Unlike your siding or roof, there is no place for snow, ice, and rain to trickle down. Your deck is horizontally exposed to […]
Estancia power washing comes along to save the day. Offered by professional power washers, it gives your Estancia home and the surrounding areas clean of stains, debris, bugs and their nests creating a clean and attractive newness to your area. Deep-seated dirt, mold, fungus, moss, soot, gum, rust […]
There are many ways one can improve his home. Perhaps one of the things that one can do is the installment of good interior design; mainly changing the paint of his home. Imagine living in a house that has a great touch of color. The feeling […]
There are two types of elastomeric coatings on the market today that can help your Santa Fe home’s siding stay in great shape no matter how hot the sun gets, how much the wind and sand scour the surfaces, or how much hail impacts your exterior. […]
Sometimes there are good reasons for living or working in a space that is smaller than the usual house or apartment: location, for one, and convenience, for another. If you go this route, you have to make choices about what’s important; can you live with a […]
We use the word “paint” in many ways. In addition to the product that we put onto walls and canvases and cars and furniture and all kinds of other surfaces, we also use the word to refer to the substances women (“paint”) and Native American braves […]
The history of paint goes back to humankind’s prehistory. As much as 16,000 years ago, cave painters in France and Spain used colors made from hematite, manganese oxide, charcoal and berry juice for their vivid depictions of animals such as mammoths and rhinoceros. Egyptian tombs were […]
Does the exterior of your house really look its best? It may have a fresh paint job, or a new oat of stucco, but you’re aware that something is lacking, or insufficient, or dull. Could it be the trim? The right kind and color of trim paint—or […]
Autumn is just about upon us, and in accordance with the change of seasons, the Pantone Color Institute, a company that does color trend forecasting and helps companies make informed decisions about color for their products, has issued its report on the Ten Top Fall Colors. […]
New Mexico’s summer weather is hard on stucco. As I write this, a huge late-afternoon “monsoon” thunderstorm is breaking over the Sandias and dumping torrents onto the Northeast Heights. And when rain—or even hail!—is not coming down in sheets, the torrid summer sun, amplified by Albuquerque’s […]
Are you considering hiring an independent contractor to inspect major home systems such as electrical, plumbing, HVAC?? I would recommend having a qualified roofer inspect the roof. Depending on the age, or if there is any evidence of structural cracking, that an engineer be consulted for […]
By John Freeman – Owner, Cutting Edge Painting, Inc. A family member of one of my customers has a brother and a sister-in-law, who live in another state. She went to visit them last week, met her baby nephew for the first time, and got to tour […]
School is back in session, which means fall is just around the corner. Before you know it, holiday season will be in full force! From Halloween to Easter, there will be plenty of opportunities to host visitors for the next several months. As the weather begins […]
With summer right around the corner, many of us are just aching to get outside and start working to make the exterior of our homes look magnificent. The possibilities are endless when it comes to giving your home the makeover it deserves this summer, and while […]
Brown is a rugged color, created by mixing all three primary colors, red, yellow and blue. It is solid, earthy and connotes strength and reliability. Also warmth, security and comfort: think of all the wonderful foods that are brown: chocolate, hot cocoa, the crust on a […]
Purple is an extremely rich and sophisticated color. It is associated with royalty, luxury, wealth and extravagance, presumably because the dyes used to produce it were once very rare and expensive. One of the secondary colors in the spectrum, combining red and blue, it combines the […]
Since it’s still autumn, let’s look at another variation on “fall colors” for decorating, either seasonally for harvest tables and Thanksgiving celebrations, or just for a room in your house, because you like autumn’s mostly subtle shades. Here are some thoughts from yet another “shelter magazine”: Try […]
Wouldn’t you think “Decorating with Autumn Colors” would mean an array of golds and oranges, with touches of red and deep wine and brown? Well, at least one “shelter magazine” this fall decided that “fall colors” means brown, brown and more brown, and makes its case […]
Benjamin Moore sells 3,500 colors of paint. So why, in the name of all that’s colorful would the company recently choose, as its Color of the Year for 2016, a shade of white? Ellen O’Neill, BM’s creative director, recently told Architectural Digest that the shade, which is […]
Gray paint on the walls of your living room, family room or indeed any room? Never! you would probably say vigorously; how depressing, how dull, how lackluster! Well, believe it or not, gray can be a most refined neutral and a means to an elegant, subtly […]
After the holidays finally come to an end, there is a large stretch of time during the winter where there isn’t really that much going on, and if you are like many homeowners out there, this slow period after all of the hustle and bustle around […]
Now that summer has finally arrived, homeowners all over the country are getting outside and diving headlong into the home improvement season. Whether you are just looking to maintain your lawn, you enjoy gardening, or summer happens to be the time you breakout your tools and […]