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		<title>Managing Snow Removal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Winter storms can be absolutely beautiful.  Overnight, your neighborhood is transformed from a mundane grid of streets lined with houses to an ethereal, inhuman landscape of delicate white and silver.  All the children are outside laughing, and you see more of your neighbors than at any other time (except for maybe the beginning of Spring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Can I Buy Paint?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tips for purchasing paint and painting supplies from a Washington, DC/Northern Virginia area Contracting Company Navigating the coatings industry (&#8220;coating&#8221; = paint, stain, sealant, wallpaper, etc) can be a little overwhelming for the beginner.  This is mostly because what seems like a simple product to the uninformed consumer (aka, paint), is actually an intricately engineered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dirty Decks: Pressure-Washing Winter Debris</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blue Door Painters Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many things about the winter actually protect your deck from the kind of beating it gets in the summer.  There isn&#8217;t the same exposure to the beating sun (in fact, when it snows the deck actually gets a welcome break from the sun altogether), and there isn&#8217;t as much human traffic on the deck, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Challenges and Benefits of Remodeling in the Winter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blue Door Painters Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many reasons not to remodel in the winter.  The harsher the elements, the more environmental challenges are posed to an exterior job.  Exposure to extreme winter elements makes new coatings and other work so vulnerable to failure that most contractors (Blue Door Painters included) postpone exterior projects until mid-March, when temperatures become more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Can I Tell if My Wall is Insulated?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blue Door Painters Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to Check for Insulation In Exterior Walls From Washington, DC Area Drywall Experts It&#8217;s February 8.  It took a while to get cold this winter &#8211; back in November, it was balmy enough that you started to wonder if maybe there was something to the whole global warming theory.  But by February 8, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Can I Protect My Deck From Snow?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tips for winter deck care from Washington, DC / Northern Virginia area painting and deck staining contractor. Early in the morning, you peak out the window to behold a winter wonderland.  Your front lawn is a pristine sea of sparkling white.  Your sidewalk is a pristine sea of sparkling white.  Your back deck is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Decoration</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blue Door Painters Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Environmental psychologists and Feng Sui practitioners, coming from two extremely different intellectual traditions, tend to agree on two things: 1) the winter is the most challenging season for human psychology, and 2) the way that an interior is designed can play a strong role in mitigating the impact of this difficult season. What makes the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Much Color Do You Want in an Interior?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blue Door Painters Staff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[color]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tips from expert color consultants on interior design in the Washington, DC area There are six basic strategies for using the color wheel to develop harmonious color palettes. We&#8217;ve listed them below, in order from the most conservative to the most daring.  All you need is a basic subtractive color wheel (3 primary colors, 3 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Are Colors Classified?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blue Door Painters Staff</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bluedoorpainters.com/?p=409</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Artists and poets have fallen in love with color for as long as there has been human culture, and there are a million beautiful color names that have been invented to describe the rich palettes that fill our world.  However, in an attempt to standardize a language of color for optimal communication, and to bring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Is Color?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blue Door Painters Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Discussion of Color Relevant to Painting and Refinishing in the Washington, DC Area What, exactly, is color?  It is such a pervasive aspect of our lives that the question almost sounds absurd.  Color is color, and there isn&#8217;t anything else to it.  However, a deeper understanding of the physics and biology that create our experience [...]]]></description>
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