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Internal Prep for Painting: What’s the Big Deal?

At Homm CPS, we’re often quizzed on the importance of the prep process when painting interior spaces. More specifically, our residential and commercial customers sometimes ask whether going nuts with preparation is really all that important. Is preparation truly essential, or is it something you …

Which Room Should I Paint First? (Answered)

If there’s one question that never fails to stir debate among professional painters and DIYers alike, it’s this. On one hand, you could argue that there’s no such thing as a right or wrong way of going about an interior painting project. Just as long …

Why Hire the Pros to Paint Your Business?

Making the decision to hire help for an interior makeover at your business premises is no mean feat. Particularly if it’s technically possible to tackle the painting job in-house, you may question the benefits or cost-effectiveness of bringing in the pros. From occasional touch-ups to …

How Professional Interior Painting Can Benefit Your Business

If you’ve being keeping up with our blog (of course you have!), you’ll have seen our recent post on the potential benefits of hiring help when painting commercial interiors. In our previous article, we discussed some of the benefits of hiring professional painters as opposed …

Five Reasons to Repaint and Refresh Your Home Office

Spending money on renovating or refurbishing the home office is rarely a priority for most households. In fact, it’s not uncommon for homeworkers – temporary or otherwise – to simply place a few bits of dilapidated furniture in a dank and dismal corner, rather than …

What’s the Best Paint Color for Kitchen Cabinets?

First and foremost, let’s get one thing straight – there’s no such thing as a ‘best’ paint color for any interior painting project. One thing we’ve learned over the years, it’s that tastes and preferences very massively from one person to the next. What one …

Spraying vs. Brushing: Mythbusting

Everybody has their own preferred approach to interior painting. For some, there’s nothing better (and indeed more satisfying) than getting the job done with traditional brushes. By contrast, others will tell you that unless it’s a roller, they won’t go near it. All with their …

Indispensable Tips for Interior Painting in Winter

Do the weather conditions outside need to be taken into account when painting indoors? The short answer is yes – approaching interior painting jobs strategically in the winter is important. Nevertheless, this doesn’t mean that interior painting during the colder months of the year is …

5 Easy Interior Painting Projects to Tackle this Winter

Making the best of a bad situation – isn’t that what winter is all about? When it’s grim as it gets outside, it’s not as if you’re spoilt for choice with a thousand and one activities up for grabs. You could binge all the box …

What is a Virtual Estimate (and is it Reliable?)

Right now, organizing interior painting jobs carried out by the pros isn’t as easy as it used to be. Rules and restrictions are changing all the time, making it difficult to know what to expect next. It’s perfectly possible to carry out high-quality interior painting …