Why Paint My Door Blue?
The Art of Painting Accent Colors for Washington, DC Area Exteriors Imagine you are driving through a brand new development of luxury townhouses. You could be just off Montrose Road in Rockville, MD, or nestled…
How To Wallpaper A Room
Wallpapering Tips From a Professional Contractor It’s all in the planning. Wallpapering a room is a simple and dramatic way to change the whole feel of your interior – and it is also a process…
Can I Paint My Bedroom the Color the Sky Is Right Now?
Discussion of Design, Color Matching, and Spectrophotometry from a Northern Virginia Painting Contractor Color is an amazing, and elusive, element of life. Our vision doesn’t necessarily depend on it, and in some ways the information…
Warm Colors for the Cold Season
Winter Color Consultation Advice from Northern Virginia / Washington DC Painting Contractor Pop quiz: what color makes a space warmer? Black, or red? If you answered “black”, then you have a good understanding of basic…
Why Can’t You Paint in the Winter?
Winter Painting Questions Answered by Washington, DC Area Contractor Who really wonders how paint dries? It seems like there couldn’t be a simpler – or more boring – process to understand. The paint is wet,…
Can I Stain Pressure-Treated Wood?
Tips for Staining Decks and Other Exterior Surfaces in Washington DC and Northern Virginia Wood is a strong and beautiful organic building material with one key weakness: being organic, it is vulnerable to organic decay. …
How do I get curb appeal?
Color Contouring: The Hot New Painting and Remodeling Strategy for Enhancing Exterior Curb Appeal The little house on Robin Road was what one keenly perceptive open-house visitor called “an architectural disaster”. The bathrooms were small,…
Do I Have To Use A Primer Before I Paint?
Painting tips for doing it yourself . . . or checking up on your painter/contractor Washington DC and Northern VA The short answer to this question is short indeed. Yes. You should pretty much always…
Halloween Exteriors
Blue Door Painters Gets You Ready for Washington, DC’s Spookiest Evening With the trees turning colors, the lively pumpkin patches, and all the fun decorations populating local drugstores and neighborhood stoops, Halloween is the spookiest…
Exotic Styles In DC: The Hunting Lodge
Blue Door Painters explores incorporating exotic styles into city life. The home was a rustic woodland paradise. Surrounded by forest and framed by a tidy garden and a liberal swath of hardscaping, the house showcased…