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For this Florissant customer:
Removal of wallpaper in entry, stairs, living room, kitchen and hallway.
Finish removal of wallpaper in bathroom as well as hallway and bedroom borders
Sand and seal wallpaper walls (customer did most of the patching)
Prime and paint all baseboards, door frames and doors.
Repaint all walls.
Repaint master bathroom ceiling, hall bathroom ceiling and a matched color repaint of half the living room (to cover old soot marks).

Customer requested mounts on long wall in the living room to be left intact for a shelving unit that will go back up.

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A punch list completed for our customer in Des Peres.

Living Room/Kitchen:
Ceiling, crown, baseboards – no walls
Dining Room:
Ceilings, Window Trim/sill and baseboards
Sunroom:
Repair seam and corner cracks in ceiling, paint ceiling, walls and all window/base trim

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Do we do smaller projects? Absolutely. In fact this project was completed over about a month to allow the homeowner time to clear the rooms being painted. The front room was also painted twice because the customer wanted a bit of a tweak to the color so we did an additional coat in that room. All rooms were walls only except for the fireplace room which got new semigloss white on the ceiling tiles as well.

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This is the first of a three stage project for this Wildwood area homeowner. This home has absolutely stunning views of the entire area from high atop Old State Road however the interior was very dated and the recent owners were very ready for a change. And a big one.

In the first stage we have removed all wallpaper and backing from almost the entire first floor. Two story living room, dining room, foyer, family room, upper stairs and landing and a laundry room. While we were at work doing this our recommended drywall repairman and drywall repair guys did their thing to replace some weak drywall, mud and tape cracks and repair corner joints and get the area ready to later seal and paint.

Over the years many projects we completed were fairly large in the scope of painting work. This may be the largest wallpaper removal one that I can recall mostly because almost everything was two story, there was a variety of different papers installed at different times and some very odd angles and reach areas thanks to two fireplaces. Each paper came off a bit different and using different tools but thanks to very well sized walls removal was almost damage free with only existing damage and old repairs underneath. Some was done solely with water, some with steam and some which was top part penetrated then steamed off.

As we finish the last few areas the drywall repairs are underway and the entire space will be ready for the next step. In this case we will be painting ceilings, walls, baseboards and windows in the living room, dining room, stairs, upper landing and most of the foyer. At that point we will stop and wrap things up. The final trip will be the kitchen (which will be redone), family room and possibly a few other areas once some structural work is done around the fireplace area and wall.

As this part is complete those pictures will be posted here. The painting part begins soon.

A walls only repaint was done at this home off Musick in Affton .. mostly a universal grey along with accents in each bedroom, one in the front room and a matching front door color. Baseboards were removed in advance of a flooring change so most of the current floor was of no worry. During the bid we had also noticed a really weird paint job had been done on the doors with very glossy and almost faux finish look so the doors also received a fresh coat of white paint using satin instead of the usual semigloss to hide the previous paint job issues. Closet doors and headers were also returned to white using the same paint The same white was then used on the bookcase and mantle in the living room bringing all the trim on the main floor to the same paint. Finally the main grey was used to repaint the insides of the closets.

Colors used: Dark Accent: Anchors Aweigh SW9179 Blue Bedroom Accent: Peacock Plume SW0020 Purple Bedroom Accent: Brave Purple SW6823 Living Room Accent: Cloudburst SW6487 Main Color: Lazy Grey SW6254

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Note: The before pictures are those from the real estate listings however this is not the condition the unit was found in when purchased for a remodel/sale by a real estate investor.
In the end all the flooring was removed (especially the carpet in the bathrooms), vanities and toilets replaced, one shower redone, quite a bit of patching and the kitchen looks nothing at all like the before pictures here. In addition, someone had painted the stairway spindles black.

In the end this was mostly a walls only repaint. The popcorn ceilings were not done other than a few spot paints from stains. Baseboards originally goe one coat of white but after carpets were removed customer decided to rip and replace them. New vinyl floor on all three floors. Carpeting wrapping the stairs. Railings sprayed fully back to white. All wall colors from the original builders grade white to a neutral grey in Low Sheen Eg-Shel from Sherwin (used to hide some wall imperfections).

At this point there are some ‘after’ pictures posted however these are really more in progress pictures as we will be returning soon once all the other contractors are done to take care of touchups from the other work that had been done and plan on taking final pictures at that time.

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Over eight years ago we painted most of the main interior area of this home so it’s always nice when someone that far back calls you when it’s time for more work.

For this trip they wanted their honey oak cabinets painted. These were like most lower end cabinets with only wood fronts. There was also a second area with cabinets that were installed at a separate time and while close in look were not the same cabinets and did not match in type or color. With the kitchen sitting back away from the natural light the darker wood cabinetry made the entire kitchen look dark.

The customer chose to go with Essential Grey from Sherwin Williams for the new color which lightened up the entire kitchen area a whole lot!

Doors were removed and labeled, all hinges removed and set aside for each door ensuring that the top and bottom were marked so every hinge would return to it’s former location which generally reduces or eliminates having to balance out the doors later. All hardware removed and set aside.

We then set up shop in the corner of their basement with drying racks and tables and racked it all up. Doors were light sanded, deglossed and cleaned, lightly sanded again then a coat of bonding primer was applied. Once cured it was lightly sanded, first coat added, lightly sanded and the second coat applied. Doors were then flipped to the fronts and the same prime/sand/paint/sand/paint process was followed.

Hardware put back on, doors hung, handles returned and a final check of all doors. boxes and sides done to ensure proper coverage.

We then painted out the small back area to match the rest of the homes interior.

The first picture was taken of the back of one of the doors after the first coat went on. The leveling ability of this paint is simply amazing, and this is the lowest end stuff we use. Two other close up shots are of a side (which is basically a laminated sticker) and one of the doors. Now the two different sets of cabinets all match in color.

Interested in making those old cabinets look new again? Give us a call and schedule a free estimate today!

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This homeowner wanted their entire main area repainted but before we started there were several areas that needed drywall repairs. We referred them to AJ’s Drywall who came in and took care of that work and prepared everything for us to come in and get things painted. Ceilings were two coated to make sure repairs blended in, baseboards one coated semigloss white and then two coats on all the wall areas. You will notice some pillars – those are not part of our paint work as they will be faux finished after our work is complete by the homeowner.

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This home in the Silver Lake Estates subdivision in Pacific, MO needed a quick refresh to prepare for a quick flip/sale. The colors used were ironically very heavily used in these homes during their original construction however the paint used was builder grade quality flat paint.

Since these homes are still fairly new the customer opted to not paint ceilings or baseboards other than areas that we had to make repairs. In this home there were several areas of need including a bad area coming in the front door area at the peak of the vault. A second bad area was found in the master bathroom ceiling and walls and a third at the vault peak of the kitchen. All three were patch repaired and smoothed out then covered with the original ceiling paint with sand still on the property.

The cabinets were also the well known builder grade units mostly built of low end boxes with wood facing and door frames. To clean up and renew them all doors and hardware were pulled, everything cleaned, sanded, primed and painted using Sherwin’s alkyd-hybrid polyurethane product and reassembled.

All the rooms were painted using Promar 200 Low Sheen Eg-Shel paint to keep the original flat paint look as intact as possible while adding quite a bit more durability to all the surfaces and allows light cleaning without disturbing the paint.

The pictures below are all ‘after’ pictures. I had before pictures but I appear to have them lost in my computers somewhere however a video of the whole project beginning and end were posted on our Facebook page.

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We not only do the big jobs – we do the small ones too.

This customer had a pretty simple problem – a glossy paint was used on the ceilings at some point and had flashing problems. This gave a chance to take care of small repairs then a repaint. In this case we did not go back to a normal flat paint but matched the wall color and stuck with a low sheen paint keeping the sheen protection in the kitchen and taking that into the living room. Cleaned up the ceiling edge and repainted the fireplace wall to match and then the whole ceiling, To ensure good coverage Sherwin Emerald wall paint was used.