Wallpaper Removal and Lime Wash Finishes in Manhattan 10003

Outdated or damaged wallpaper can detract from the beauty of your home and may not align with your current style preferences. After we removed the wallpaper, we plastered the walls and applied a primer to prepare for the lime wash.

after

before

Applying the lime wash

finishing touches on the lime wash.

When applying lime wash, the first step is to prepare the surface you'll be working on. Primer, base coats and multiple finish coats. After the finish coats are dry, we apply a sealer to protect it.

Manhattan Workplace Painting Contractor 

Multiple studies on work place environments all point to increased job productivity, satisfaction and performance in a clean, bright space. Additionally, attractive office surroundings can be a positive influence factor in reducing turnover. This new tech start-up company in Manhattan values its employees and strives to provide a pleasant, sleek, modern workplace with abundant natural daylight.

A huge part of any project, especially painting and maybe even moreso spray painting, is preparation. Activating the nozzle and being experienced in operating the equipment is imperative, but frequently protecting the surrounding spaces is equally essential.

And we work in many large spaces, like this one. The volume of plastic, brown masking paper and tape can be considerable. Once we covered floors, windows and anything which was not to be painted, we expertly applied jet black paint to the ceilings and ductwork. It matches their corporate branding and interior furnishings.

Then we painted the walls all white to provide maximum natural light reflection and the perfect contemporary contrast. We are professional painters, wallpaper hangers and interior construction contractors on the move, but if we were office operatives, we’d like to work here. Union Square is a very cool neighborhood, and Union Square Greenmarket is an awesome farmer’s market open year round. From milk, eggs and maple syrup to beef, pork, chicken, farm fresh produce and more, the market is a fantastic place to support small scale farming and the regional farmers who bring fresh food to market, for all of us.

Grand piano parlor, aka living room, with newly repaired and painted walls and ceiling

Freshly plastered and painted after mega scraping and prepping

New plaster, skim coat and paint - no more unsightly peeling, flaking, cracking walls and ceiling

Lower East Side Scraping and Plastering 

What do sneakers, paint, heat pumps, teddy bears, plaster and wood fences have in common? They all experience significant wear and tear across 25 years. Some need replacing. Some can be fixed. And in the case of paint and plaster, all can be made like new! This apartment in Manhattan was ready for the “make-it-new” outcome. Protecting furniture, fixtures and floors is imperative in our line work, and here we had a grand piano in the mix.

Once things were wrapped and covered, we scraped and scraped and scraped some more. Ceilings are always a challenge, but our arms are strong, our eyes are keen, and our experience is vast. The whole place, walls included, needed work, and when working with plaster, using the correct plaster weld product ensures that new plaster will bond well and hold a long time – ideally another 25 years. We skim coated ceilings and walls before applying final coats of paint. The client was thrilled with the results. We were thrilled with the whole project, especially not to have gotten a flake or spot of anything on the grand piano.

Flaking paint on your pillow, anyone? We fixed this ceiling like new.

Not exactly what you want to come home to, right? Right. We made it all new again.

Wolf-Gordon Manhattan Paper Hanging

With a keen eye for class and the desire to make a stylish statement in their new apartment, this family collaborated with our color consultant to determine their preference for the wall paint plus an accent wallpaper in the bedroom. Benjamin Moore’s Yukon Sky 1439 was selected for the walls, its smoky blue-gray subtly hinting at an approaching night time.

Wolf-Gordon’s wallpaper products combine excellent design with dependable performance. The wall surface must be completely smooth and uniform. There are many adhesives from which to choose depending on the thickness and material of the wallpaper. Then there’s using the precise amount of glue and lining up each sheet perfectly next to the previous one and trimming at the edges where one wall makes a corner with another one. Wallpaper installation is a demanding combination of art, science, timing and precision, and we happen to think this shimmery, dappled accent wall is very cool.

Fine Paints of Europe Restaurant Painter  

There’s no real reason the number NINE is so often found in phrases, like cloud nine, the whole nine yards and dressed to the nines. Maybe it is connected to a tailor having to use nine yards of fabric to make a suit. Maybe not. No matter. The Nines at 9 Great Jones Street adheres to a dress code “to the nines” and offers a brilliant red interior which evokes immense energy, romance, power and passion. We painted this ultra-swanky dining establishment after the gold leaf wallpaper was installed on the ceiling.

 Fine Paints of Europe has one North American importer in our neighbor state of Vermont. Manufactured in The Netherlands, the paints offer a luxury enamel finish which is exquisite and refined. Preparation is as precise a task as applying the paint using containments and air filters to keep the space clean and dust-free between coats. The tasks are tedious to achieve these stunning results, and satisfaction when the job is done takes the place one above nine to a solid 10 on a scale of one to ten.