Author: Guy Edwards

You spend days choosing the right paint color.  The sample looks great in the store.  It looks good on the wall Saturday afternoon.  The room gets painted, you walk back in that evening, turn on the lights—and wonder if you’ve made a terrible mistake.  The warm beige suddenly looks yellow.  The soft gray has picked […]

You planned to paint the house this fall.  Then Portland did what Portland does.  A dry stretch disappeared from the forecast. The siding got wet. The project was pushed back. Another weather system appeared behind the first one.  Now you’re looking at October and wondering whether you’ve missed your chance.  This is where homeowners can […]

  You walk around the corner of your Happy Valley home and find it.  One side looks noticeably worse than the others.  The paint has faded. A few joints look tired. Maybe there’s a small area where the coating is beginning to lift.  Then comes the expensive assumption:  “I guess we have to paint the […]

Cabinet painting looks simple from across the kitchen.  There are doors. There are drawers. There are cabinet boxes.  Count everything, choose a color, and you should be able to calculate the price.  But when we evaluate a cabinet painting project in Gresham, one of the most important questions isn’t how many doors you have.  It’s […]

There is a point every fall when Portland-area homeowners start asking the same question:  “Is it too late to paint my house?”  The calendar says October. The mornings are cooler. Rain has returned to the forecast. Daylight is disappearing faster than it did a month ago.  So exterior painting season must be over, right?  Not […]

There is a big difference between seeing peeling paint and understanding peeling paint.  Imagine walking around your Portland home and finding one patch of siding where the coating is beginning to lift.  Three feet to the left, everything looks fine.  The trim above it looks fine.  The other side of the house looks fine.  So […]

If you want to learn something useful about your home’s exterior, don’t start with the side facing the street.  Walk around to the north side.  It probably isn’t the most interesting part of the property. It may be shaded by the house itself, bordered by a fence, tucked behind landscaping, or located along a side […]

There is one piece of painting advice that sounds completely reasonable and causes homeowners to wait too long:  “If the paint still looks good, the house doesn’t need painting.”  We understand why people think this way.  Exterior painting is visual. Homeowners notice color first, so it seems logical to judge the condition of a paint […]

Two Portland homeowners can call about houses that are roughly the same size and receive very different painting estimates.  That sometimes catches people off guard.  If both homes are two stories and have similar square footage, shouldn’t painting them cost about the same?  Not necessarily.  Square footage tells us how much house exists. It doesn’t […]

Homeowners don’t always know when their exterior was last painted.  Maybe you bought the house five years ago and the previous owner didn’t leave records. Maybe you remember having it painted, but whether that was seven years ago or ten has become a little fuzzy.  Fortunately, the date isn’t always the most important part.  When we walk around a home in Happy Valley, the exterior itself gives […]