Basic Tips on Dramatic Color Changes

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Are you tired of droning colors? Do you want to apply something different that will add personality and life to your home’s paint?

Follow what’s on your mind. Be unique. Be bold. To achieve the desired effect of your painting, you have to learn to paint with dramatic color schemes blending bright and contrasting colors. The mood that stirs you will help create patterns and color choices. In any color swatch development, you can always experiment using the right product and paint color that catches attention and be done with it.

Be wise. Avoid letting one color dominate an area.  Instead, use one value to stand out – it may be lighter or darker. Live with the color before you decide to buy. Instead of buying gallons for your painting needs, try to buy first small samples of the colors of your initial choice. Picking the right color can really be a challenge. The reliable way of picking a color is to find an inspiration piece and then select a complementary color for the area to be painted.

Paint like a pro. Now that you have chosen a color depending on your mood and your style, start painting! Make sure to use the right product and tools to get the job done easily and perfectly.

I hope these basic tips on dramatic color changes help you achieve a look that suits your style.

Tips on Organizing a Job Site for Painting

Organizing a job site properly will be much easier if you have an organization system. Start by organizing the job site right from the beginning to save yourself a lot of headaches in the end.

Effective and efficient organization requires:

· Appropriate training of employees

· Provision of the best materials and tools

· Proper scheduling of processes

This leads to maximum efficiency and will save much time and money. Here at Milestone Custom coatings, we have therefore created the Milestone Painting System where all our employees are trained to follow the prescribed uniform, workshop set up, painting procedure and cleanup.  You can do the same in your painting company to achieve great results.

Milestone Interior / Exterior Painting System

1.     Uniform – the company provides white company t-shirt, white painter pants or shorts and CSA “Green Triangle”.

2.     Workshop Setup – a workshop shall be set up on-site upon commencement of the project. It must be clean at the end of the day – including leaving all empty cans with their lids off. This area will be somewhere out of the way such as basement, garage or laundry room.

3.     Painting procedure – room preparation, ceiling, trim and wall washing, filling, caulking, sanding is done accordingly depending on the scheduled process. Surfaces will then be pole sanded, primed and taped, if necessary, and cleaned up afterwards.

4.     Clean up – all unused paints are to be labeled and left with the client except for white, black and primer.

This is Milestone’s way of providing consistent quality service to its customers. Call them now for free consultation 403.700.8279.

Calgary Painters – Milestone Custom Coatings Ltd.

“I am Justin Wong, the general manager of Milestone Custom Coatings, we are a local painting, wall coverings company here in Calgary, Alberta.  We do paint, wallpaper, stain, lacquers, and different types of coating processes.  Paint is obviously our bread and butter, but I wanted to showcase a little bit of our work. This was a commercial site that we did recently, over the last couple of months.  We did a few different things. One of them was wallpapers, we also did the painting here as well. What you will notice with our work on the wall vinyl is that there are no seems, no runs or lines, everything is nice and smooth, the painting of the lines was tight and the holes were filled in properly and that’s what we  go for our projects. What makes us different from most paint companies in town is we keep your informed on the process, we try to minimize disruption, we really like to be the paint company you’d like to have over for dinner, we don’t want to be a hassle in your life, we want to be a joy in your life and keep the process as painless as possible. So for all your future painting needs – call Milestone Custom Coatings – 403-700-8279″ – Justin Wong, general manager of Milestone Custom coatings Ltd.