Painting Kitchen Cabinets

One of the projects you like to get finished before the Spring pollen gets here. Painting kitchen cabinets on a cool Winter's day. Thanks Charlotte and Bill.

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Painting Green Over Red In The Kitchen

Kitchen in North Raleigh going green over red with Benjamin Moore Eggshell finish.
Thanks Helen! 

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Putnam Ivory

Finishing up this week in Durham with Benjamin Moore's Putnam Ivory. Thanks Shawana.

 

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Indoor Scaffolding

A must have for those tricky stairs. 

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How To Select Paint Colors

When selecting color for a room you always find the fabric first. These bed linen's provided the base to start from in which the owner took the grayish light color for the walls, the light green for the master bath, and the dark charcoal for the all 'round accent color. This color concept enhanced the existing green glass tinted modern style headboard and black floor lamps.

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Finished Stained Kitchen Cabinets

Refinished Kitchen Cabinets in Natural Pine Jell Stain and Urethane. 
Thanks Vicky and Wade! 

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How To Stain Kitchen Cabinets

Sanded lightly and restained with a natural oil brush on rub off "jell" stain.  Cleaned and Sanded

Rubbed on Jell Stain and Urethane

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Painting The Kitchen and Family Room

Painting the Kitchen and Family Room.
Thanks Teri and Mark!

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Interior Painting and Move in Ready

Two nice pictures from the interior painting of a townhouse before moving in.
Thanks Donna.

Dining Room

Master Bathroom
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Interior Painting With Kids and Paint

I can not remember how I happened upon this picture, but every time I see it it reminds me of a job I did years ago for a lady in my old neighborhood.

She wanted her interior trim painted in an oil gloss and as I was painting a window she was standing behind me talking casually when all of a sudden I hear her gasp. Her infant son had quietly crawled onto a drop cloth I had set up as a work station behind us on the living room floor, and he had just dumped a whole gallon of the oil base gloss trim paint all over himself. In all the excitement she proceeded to sling oil paint all over the carpet, and then the dog got excited because she was excited and ran through the paint and then tracked it all over her house.

But sometimes even a bad situation can have a happy ending. She was able to claim the damaged carpet on her homeowners insurance and ended up getting new carpeting installed throughout the house for the $250 policy deductible, three weeks before her husband took a new job that sent them to Wisconsin.

Interior Painting To Perfection

Not that often do I have a chance to post interior pictures because the rooms are never put back together until after I'm gone, but here are three from a home I did a few years ago that surfaced this week.

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The Office



Guest Room



Master Bedroom Sitting Area


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The History of Calvert Painting

I got my first painting job around 1969. I was 10 and my parents had me paint the backyard fence where we lived in Elk Grove Village, Ill. Mom said I was a natural. I never really stopped working with my hands after that.

I'd do small odd painting and carpentry jobs while attending Western Kentucky University in the late 70's and then in 1980 I officially started Calvert Painting and worked while finishing my B.S. in Communications at the University of New Haven.

My first truck was a 1977 Datsun pickup with 67,000 miles on it. I could not afford a new one at the time but I was able to stain a teachers house for it in trade.


I moved my business to Durham when I moved to North Carolina in 1988 and then to Raleigh in 1996.

Calvert Painting presently offers high quality residential and locally owned small commercial interior and exterior painting and staining, carpentry repairs, deck restoration and construction, wallpaper stripping, sheetrock repair, and pressure washing.

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