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Paint Your Ceilings Like A Pro: Four Expert Insights

The benefits of hiring the experts to paint your interior spaces are extensive and relatively obvious. Along with getting the job done as quickly and painlessly as possible, professional interior painting can also save you money. It may sound contradictory, but hiring help really can …

Is Fall Really a Bad Time to Paint Your Home’s Exterior?

It’s typically assumed that fall is the worst season of the year to paint your home’s exterior, but is this really the case? The answer might surprise you – check out our fall home improvement guide!

Interior and Exterior Paint: What’s the Difference?

Meta: Is there any real difference between interior and exterior paint, or can the two be used interchangeably for a wide variety of internal and external painting projects? Working as a professional painting contractor, there are some questions you encounter from clients more regularly than …

How to Paint Faster Without Compromising Quality

Anyone can rush a home paint job to completion. Unfortunately, doing so almost always guarantees substandard results. The reason being that there’s a difference between rushing a job and carrying out the same task in a structured, strategic and savvy manner. Ask any pro painter …

Health and Safety Before, During and After Painting

Most people would say that to them, health and safety is always a priority. Indeed, it’s comparatively rare for people to throw caution to the wind and take unnecessary risks. But when it comes to interior painting and decorating, the whole thing can be a …

Five Steps to a Stunning Feature Wall at Home

A well thought out feature wall can bring a room to life like almost nothing else. Simple yet enormously effective, it’s also one of the easiest ways of transforming the dynamic of an entire room. Unfortunately, it’s also surprisingly easy to go wrong when designing …

Seven More Painting Myths You Might Be Buying Into

Here at Homm CPS, we find a lot of our customers (new and existing) are still buying into any number of bogus home painting myths. Whether we’re painting exteriors in Chevy Chase, MD, or enhancing interiors in Washington, DC, we come across the same misleading …

What Tools Are Needed to Paint Your Home?

Incredibly, it won’t be long until the worst of the winter weather gives way to the most inspiring season of the year. Decorating during winter is never a bad idea, but the spring never fails to inspire DIYers to get busy with their paint brushes. …

Five Ideas for Sprucing up a Feature Wall

Recently, we published a post outlining the various benefits of setting up a feature wall at home. Since then, we’ve received an influx of queries from customers across the region, concerning how to set up a stunning feature wall at an affordable price. From Chevy …

Interior Painting Contractors: Five Checks to Perform

You’d be forgiven for thinking that taking on an interior painting job that’s more than you can handle would be the biggest home decorating mistake you can make. In reality, it’s nothing of the sort – hiring a substandard contractor is far worse. Unfortunately, most …