Tag: Lakeside Painting
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Thanks for Your Help With Lakeside's Benefit Open
The 2010 Lakeside Painting 8th Annual Benefit Open raised $4,750 for research into vascular diseases and neurological disorders, including blood clots, strokes, cavernous hemangiomas, aneurisms, high-blood pressure and blood disorders, to name a few. Perhaps more than any other Benefit Open, this year’s was particularly personal in that...
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Peruvian Painter to White-Wash the Andean Mountains
At Lakeside Painting’s office, I came across this madcap idea in Painting & Wallcovering Contractor. Apparently a Peruvian man won the World Bank’s “100 Ideas to Save the Planet” with the slightly daft idea to white-wash the Andean Mountains to save the vanishing glaciers. To some the...
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Give Your Kitchen the Tuscan Look
If you’re looking to give your home’s kitchen a new and lively look, consider the Tuscan Kitchen look. This look employs a lot of earth tones like hues of yellow, burnt sienna, brown, sage green, ochre, rusty red or even even gold. A terra cotta color that resembles...
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The Advantages of Wallpaper
While painting the interior of your home is certainly cheaper, wallpapering your walls presents a number of advantages. Many people in Southeastern Wisconsin opt for wallpaper over painting their interiors. Wallpaper usually lasts longer than a paint job. Painted walls need to be touched up or completely redone every couple...
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Another Reason to Hire Painting Professionals
On October 17th in Danville, Pennsylvania, Mark Farrar, owner of Hawk Mountain Soda Blasting Co, blast-painted the exterior of a 19th century three-story building, sending a cloud of lead-based paint debris into the air that could be seen from three blocks away. Farrar was hired by the building’s owner...
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Painting With Neutral Colors
In past blog posts, we’ve talked about the use of vibrant and dynamic colors to bring life to a room. In this piece, we talk about using neutral colors. For some homeowners, there might not be a desire for an ecstatic-looking yellow or...
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Winter Project: Paint Your Outdoor Furniture
Looking for something to do with all of your spare time when the snow maroons you inside your home? Think about painting your outdoor furniture as a winter project. Your home may not need a paint job, but maybe your outdoor or patio furniture does. Any Wisconsin homeowner...
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Use Metallic Colors to Accent Your Home
Looking for a way to add a sleek and elegant look to your home? Consider using metallic accents for a decorative painting finish. At Lakeside Painting, we’ve often created accents for homes using metallic colors: gold, chrome, shimmery silver, blue pearl, steel plate, white pearl, etc. The...
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Lakeside Painting Wins Family Business Award
Lakeside Painting has been family-owned and operated for years despite conventional wisdom that suggests it is too difficult. Recently, Lakeside Painting won the Family Business Award from Summit Services, Inc., held October 7th and 8th in Boston, MA. ...
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Interior Commercial & Industrial Painting Projects During Winter
Winter is the perfect time for your business to pursue various interior painting projects, not just for a great interior look but for a healthy workplace. We've discussed in a recent post that paint...
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New Project: Interior Paint Job in Menomonee Falls
Several new projects are underway at Lakeside Painting, even as the temperature drops and the snow accumulates. We will be taking a look at several of our new painting projects over the coming months, the first of which is an interior paint job. This past week, Lakeside...
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Honeysuckle: The Color of 2011
Pantone, the authority on annual colors, has selected Honeysuckle as the color of 2011. What do you think? Pantone’s website had this to say of the color: “While the 2010 color of the year, PANTONE 15-5519 Turquoise, served as an escape...
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Painting Your Home's Ceiling
Ceilings are often overlooked during the course of an interior painting project. How can homeowners enhance the ceiling? We give our readers some tips. Many homeowners tend to forget about the ceiling, or pass...
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More Ceiling Ideas: Crown Moldings and Ceiling Medallions
We return with some additional ideas on painting your home’s ceiling. An interesting trompe l’oeil method of creating the illusion of height is by making a faux “tray.” Sketch a line anywhere from a foot...
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Lakeside Recipe: Banana Pancake Leftovers and Nutella
How often have you had leftover pancake batter, made the cakes, thrown them in the fridge and never touched them again (except to trash them)? Never again. We here at Lakeside Painting might be able to claim an original recipe. Well, perhaps it might be more...
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Lakeside Painting’s Dirty Job: Sponge-Blasting a Commercial Interior
Hope everyone had an amazing Memorial Day Weekend! We were asked by one of our many satisfied industrial accounts to take on another difficult project over MDW. The project required the painting of a large and very high exposed, structural ceiling, requiring the removal of thirty years of dirt...
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Painting Your Kid’s Room on a Budget
Lakeside Painting has some tips for budget-minded parents looking to paint their kids' rooms. The great assumption in home make-overs and redesigns is that everything is expensive. These assumptions pile up especially in hard economic times. But, hard economic times demand creativity—a way of thinking that...
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Join Lakeside Painting in Our Annual Golf Benefit
Join us at our 2011 Lakeside Painting, Inc. Annual Golf Benefit, Saturday, August 27, 2011 rain or shine. Each year Lakeside Painting, Inc. takes great care and compassion in selecting a special cause to which we and our Annual Golf Benefit participants can lend our support. (Watch the
Renew Your Deck’s Look This Summer
One of the oft-overlooked projects of the summer is refinishing an old deck or installing and putting a finish on a new one. Done right, it will give your outdoor activities such as barbeques or pool parties a classy look instead of any embarassing one that will cause homeowners to...
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Painting Your Wood or Metal Patio Furniture
A quick piece here on one of the more forgotten but essential components of a home exterior's summer look: patio furniture. Many of us have patio furniture. Many more of us have old patio furniture in need of paint jobs, stains and other vibrant looks. The patio furniture can...
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More Thoughts on Revitalizing Decks
by Joe Pangburn Decks are a maintenance item that should be cleaned often and coated every two to three years without fail. We covered them in "Renew Your Deck's Look This Summer," but I've decided to include a few more details for deck projects. If...
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Lakeside Painting’s 9th Annual Golf Benefit Open is August 27th!
Just a brief reminder: Join us at our 2011 Lakeside Painting, Inc. Annual...
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Energy-Saving Tips: Caulking and Painting Your Home or Business
Energy-efficiency and green-living are the buzz words these days, but the emphasis is usually on the macro scale—that is, national or state economies—instead of home or business owners. We take a look at how to make your home energy-efficient and thus "green" as fall and winter...
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Wallpaper of the Week: F. Schumacher’s ‘Go Baroque - Noir & Blanc’
In Lakeside Painting's latest series Wallpaper of the Week, we profile everything from the far-out and baroque to the environmentally and kid-friendly, and everywhere else in between. We here at Lakeside Painting love
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Fall Color Series 2011: Ladybug Red
If you're like us, you're anxiously awaiting the array of fall colors. Many autumn colors serve as great inspiration for a home or business's interior design. What follows is the first in Lakeside Painting's new series offering fall colors to serve as inspiration for your home...
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Wallpaper of the Week: Cole & Son’s Contemporary II
This week's Wallpaper of the Week is Cole & Son's Contemporary II. In past weeks, we've taken a look F. Schumacher's "Go Baroque" and
