Manhattan Carpentry and Painting

Radiators and deep stone or marble windowsills may be passé in new house construction in favor of heat pumps and small vents and, all too often, no windowsills at all. These radiators of old still deliver heat in a warm and wonderful way. Considering that much of New York City’s housing is decades and centuries old, radiators are commonplace in homes, brownstones and apartment buildings. Incorporating them into the interior décor can be fun, and we surely enjoyed this job.

 Here we reinforced a beautiful, new stone windowsill, installed the baseboard, constructed shelves on both ends and built a radiator enclosure. The radiator may be hidden from sight, but the heat from it will waft through the metal mesh, warming this living room and the residents in it all winter long. We painted the entire project in Benjamin Moore’s Super White paint for a light, bright, fresh, functional interior accent piece neatly camouflaging a radiator.

Interior Shop Painting in NYC

“Every bottle’s got a story here” at Pour Wines. On the corner of W. 75th Street and Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan’s Upper West Side, the business is approaching 15 years of its value-driven, intuitive wine mission. The knowledgeable staff curates small production, hand-crafted wines and spirits and understands making wine selection easy and enjoyable ~ and affordable. In its ongoing efforts to maintain a radiant, winsome atmosphere for the casual browser and buyer, they called us to brighten up their space. Overnight, by the way.

 With no disruption to customers or employees, our Paintworks team landed after store closing. We began right away protecting all the displays and especially all those bottles, every one of which pairs eloquently with some kind of delicious food offering. And just as many make a wonderful, stand-alone glass. But, this is about paint, not wine, and we confidently believe every paint can has a story, too. We love their color selection, and when the job was done before next day’s opening, we packed up, knowing full well it was too early for wine, so we all admired the fresh paint and inviting, attractive Pour Wines shop.  

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Kid Bedroom Painting

Going to camp is like a rite of passage for many children, grasping on to their first fragment of independence. After days of fun activities with new friends, it can be a bit of a bummer trudging back into your own bedroom. But for one Upper West Manhattan boy, the joy was compounded when he arrived back home to find his bedroom repainted and compounded again that it was done in the theme for his favorite team: The New York Mets. This major league baseball team based in Queens was formed in 1962 to replace the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants, taking for its colors blue from the Dodgers and orange from the Giants.

 We loved taking a dull beige wall and transforming it with rich medium denim blue, technically PantoneTM PMS 288C, in a Benjamin Moore product, then contrasting that with Benjamin Moore's Chantilly Lace cream shade on the trim and ceiling. Maybe this happy boy in his Mets-theme bedroom dreams of rising to the ranks of Tom "Terrific" Seaver, Darryl Strawberry or Dwight Gooden. We had such a good time laying superior coats of paint expertly on these walls, we're thinking of catching a Mets game ourselves.