Exterior Painting

The bulk of my business from late March through mid-October is exterior painting. I use the best low-voc exterior paint on the market. I'm also familiar with low-voc elastomeric paints, low-voc stains and clearcoats, and even environmentally friendly varnish and paint strippers. Many of these products are even locally manufactured. I know how to safely and ethically remove old lead-based paint, and have ongoing relationships with subcontractors who can repair any wood, concrete, or roofing that is beyond my considerable ability to fix. As a final touch, the last thing I do on each exterior job before I haul my ladders away is clean every exterior window.

I offer a one year guarantee on my workmanship and a lifetime warranty on the paint.

Timberlake exterior: A complex project in the Hawthorne District involving an eco-friendly varnish stripper, a plant oil-based varnish, and a discordant color scheme with eco-friendly paint. My carpenter added some of the window crowns, the fluting on the main columns, and helped design and build the solar newel post caps.

Eco-friendly varnish stripper:

Finished project - North and West elevations:

 

Discord: Split complimentary color schemes are challenging but worth the effort. This is one of my favorite project photographs:

Column detail with metallic copper:

 

I envisioned these posts having solar lights on them; my carpenter and I worked with the homeowner to come up with this design. I like sneaking metallic copper in as an accent here and there:

Newel post cap detail:

The matching chair was a gift:

This project for Metro in Forest Park also involved stripping old varnish and refinishing siding. All the products used here are not only environmentally friendly, but locally manufactured.

 

I'm not normally a fan of forest green paint, but I like it here.

Raynor exterior: This remodel/add-on in the Alberta district had to blend seamlessly with the original construction. Hours went into prepping window and door frames to bring them up to date; even more time was spent fixing irregularities in the siding to make the old look as good as the new.

Detail of knee brace and raftertails:

The near-black color of the sashes shows well in this photo:

Another example of a home with a crisp, dark line used to dramatic effect in Hawthorne:

For what it's worth... the vine in these pictures is a Porcelain Berry Vine, and yes, it encircles the entire house. No vines were harmed in the production of this painting.

One of my favorite architectural features from summer 2008 is these columns in Irvington:

I painted the raftertails with the accent color on this project:

Painting the foundation a darker shade of the body color visually anchors this house to the ground. Very feng shui.

A local company makes the stain I used on this fence out of plant oils and high quality acrylics:

I call this the Nasturtium House because the colors are so reminiscent of that popular garden flower.

In this photo, loose lead-based paint has been removed and a clear wood permanizer has been applied to stop wood degradation. The paint on the bottom section was a test for the designer on this project:

The final color, at a different location on the house, is quite dramatic against a blue sky:

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