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Most people don’t realize that water damage poses the greatest threat to both the interior and exterior of your home.
As we move into the heart of the Summer season, it’s time to make sure your house is sound and protected in preparation for the colder months to come. Here are some tips on where to start and what to look for.
1 – Start at the Top: It’s always a good idea to have your roof, any flashing, tops of chimneys and gutters and downspouts inspected every few years to avoid costly repairs in the future.
2 – Out of Sight often translates to Out of Mind: If you have 2nd or 3rd story dormers, make sure to have the sides inspected for wood rot and/or peeling paint and take care of any needed repairs before things deteriorate any further.
You’ll also want to inspect all horizontal surfaces (as they wear more quickly than other areas on your home) paying particular attention to window sills and bases of doors and columns.
3 – Keep it Clean: Just like washing your car regularly helps maintain the durability of the finish, Pressure Cleaning your house every 2-3 years also helps extend the life of the paint job. Stone, stucco, brick, and siding can all be pressure cleaned as well as shutters, patios, pool surrounds, decks, and walkways.
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We serve the following areas: Center City Philadelphia, Bala Cynwyd, Merion, Wynnewood, Ardmore, Haverford, Villanova, Radnor, Wayne, Devon, Berwyn, Paoli, Malvern, Chester Springs, Media, Wallingford, West Chester, Blue Bell, Gwyned, Huntingdon Valley and Chestnut Hill.
During times of uncertainty, it’s important to find leaders who continue to move forward.
Glenna Stone of Glenna Stone Interior Design, is such a leader. She is using her time at home to create new opportunities for her clients and her team.
“We have all been so busy and rushed before all this. Now, we have a chance to slow down and decide what matters.”
“We are taking the opportunity to work with our clients to define what they love and because they have the time, they are enjoying the process.”
Our clients enjoy the fact that they now have the time and the energy to focus on completing their projects. They no longer make knee-jerk reactions due to the stress of their own work deadlines.
She also notes that everyone she is working with is enjoying the extra time spent with children as a family. Her clients are treasuring this time and working the ideas that emerge from these experiences into future home designs such as places to play games, planning outdoor spaces for gathering around fires for storytelling, etc.
Using Zoom meetings, she has moved seamlessly from live meetings to remote with hardly an interruption.
Glenna provides her clients with a defined process as well as important tech tools that move the engagement forward. These include measuring tools, instruction on how to photograph/video a room or a home, and resources for ways to use space in multiple ways.
Her clients love the convenience of meeting from their home. They receive the same process in every way that includes personal conversations, definition of the work, creating a mood board with colors, textures, lighting, fabric choices – all these delivered by mail or dropped off.
“I love the magical process of design where we start with an idea and work collaboratively to create spaces that are a reflection of the client”
Glenna can be reached at [email protected]
It’s the start of a New Year (and decade), and that means time for a fresh color palette. In researching the final selection for 2020, Benjamin Moore took a look back at the color trends over the past 100 years before deciding upon the colors that will carry us into the future.
As the social climate ebbed and flowed over the decades, so did the colors that were used throughout our homes. Remember the bold and saturated colors from the 60’s and 70’s? Or the more muted and conservative tones as we approached the new millennium that hung around for the better part of the decade? As we enter into 2020 and another new decade, many of us are considering “what’s next?” with the fresh new start. The Color of the Year – First Light – infuses an air of optimism and possibility into an untouched future.
Benjamin Moore First Light is a “rosy” hue and modern neutral that will brighten any room in your home. It also pairs well with the many grays that have been used on the interior of homes for the past few years. And according to Linda Cipriano, Benjamin Moore’s Architectural & Design Expert, “everyone looks good in pink.” With a slow shift from cool to warmer tones, the coordinating palette offers possibilities for all tastes and styles.
If you’re ready to move away from the grays and infuse some color back into your home, download our checklist on how to choose colors with confidence. And if you’d like a second opinion before updating a room in your home, our color consultant would be happy to sit down with you and help you create the home of your dreams.
“Color can convey meaning, often more effectively than words.”
– Zena O’Connor
The foundation of all design is color – and yet it’s something that makes many of us extremely nervous. Especially when we start considering what colors to bring into our homes when repainting.
We often fear choosing the “wrong” color and having it turn into a time consuming and costly mistake to fix.
And we opt for the “safe choice” – the neutrals or varying tones of gray, white, and beige as our design backdrop.
We convince ourselves that we might tire of a “real” color too quickly, we can live with the neutrals longer, and we won’t have to worry about money wasted on a poor choice. We then further justify this reasoning by telling ourselves we can use pops of color as accents to liven things up. However, this is not the same as choosing a true color for your walls or even your ceiling.
Not fully convinced?
Think back to the last time you walked into a room painted with color… Whether bold or subtle, color creates an entirely different energy than a neutral backdrop ever can. Extensive research shows that color can make you feel energized or calm, powerful or peaceful, cheerful or cozy, and most importantly – welcome. Color adds dimension and character to a home. It can convey your style to the world and tell your story without you needing to utter a single word.
If you have a space in your home that you think would be enhanced by color, you don’t have to make the decision alone. Our color consultant has an M.A. in Interior Architecture and Design and will collaborate with you to choose colors that will fill your heart and home with joy and confidence.
Color consulting is a complementary service provided with any project you wish to complete with us. We pride ourselves not only on our exceptional craftsmanship and communication throughout each project, but also on the extra care we take with our customers to make sure they’re confident with their final color choices.
Photo Credit: Benjamin Moore Paints
It is not uncommon to run into unexpected necessary carpentry repairs that must be done before we commence painting. That is one of the reasons that preparation is so important. Rotted wood sometimes hides behind painted surfaces only to be exposed in the prep process.
This occurs with enough frequency that we and our customers, to keep continuity in the process, offer the highest level of carpentry for those carpentry repairs that emerge during a job.
Additionally, we have added the ability to make custom pieces, from bookshelves and wall units, to custom fireplace mantels, to occasional tables.
Our woodworking shop is state of the art, located near our main office to better service our Philadelphia and Main Line customers. This makes the process smoother and allows us to schedule better, all the while keeping continuity of the job, so our customers have less interruption of time.
Pat McAvinue leads this division with his team of carpenters, Tom Starrett and Hakim Gunter.
He is joined by our carpentry staff here to ensure your job is finished with the highest level of quality and attention to detail.
“We have used several painters in our homes in the last 20 years and your company was by far the best.”
Lisa Perri – Center City, Philadelphia
“Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.” – Johannes Brahms
Please visit our portfolio gallery for examples of our fine quality carpentry work.
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Susan Cosgrove – Berwyn
The truth is, that the kitchen is the gathering place and is the hub of the house. It’s where kids come for a snack when they come home from school. It’s the place where everyone congregates at parties, where the meals are made, secrets shared, late night drinks imbibed.
When there is so much activity in one place, it’s not unreasonable to think that it gets more wear. Here are some great kitchen makeover tips that can bring your kitchen back to life without having to do a complete kitchen remodel.
The finish on your cabinets, even at the highest level, will start whispering to you that a new coat of paint might be in order.
You won’t have to redo the whole kitchen, but kitchen cabinet painting and refinishing will give you the sense that you have a brand-new kitchen.
Giving your cabinets a new look means removing all cabinet doors and drawers and marking their locations. These are then carefully wrapped and transported them to the paint shop. This is a controlled environment containing a spray booth. Painting this way gives your cabinets a finish that looks brand, spanking new. During the period of spray painting, the surrounds will be painted by prior appointment s. This will be done in time for everything to be put back together. Once done, you’ll feel like you have an entirely new kitchen again and a new hub of the house.
Another way to breathe new life into your kitchen is by replacing old cabinet doors with new custom doors. The glass pane kitchen cabinet doors pictured below gave the kitchen an entirely different look and feel and really brightened up the space.
Don’t miss our next post about using color in the kitchen.
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Color, technology, innovation, and leadership define Benjamin Moore & Co. For more than a century, succeeding in these areas has motivated all who work here, and continues to inspire and direct our growth today. Since 1883, we’ve created and sold products that preserve, protect, and beautify our homes, buildings, and structures. We excel at creating a portfolio of products that our customers desire and demand.
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We serve the following areas: Center City Philadelphia, Bala Cynwyd, Gladwyne, Narberth, Penn Valley, Merion, Wynnewood, Ardmore, Haverford, Bryn Mawr, Villanova, Wayne, Devon, Berwyn, Paoli, Malvern, Chester Springs, Newtown Square, West Chester, Blue Bell, Gwynedd, Jenkintown, Rydal, Meadowbrook, and Chestnut Hill.
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