Bed–Stuy Stairwell Painter 11233

before

before

Maintain Your common spaces with Fresh Handrail Paint

When it comes to home improvement projects, sometimes it's the little things that make the biggest difference. One such underrated yet impactful project is painting handrails. Whether it's your staircase, balcony, or porch, painting handrails can instantly transform the look and feel of your space. We recently painted the walls, ceiling and handrails in this building stairwell. They wanted to refresh the common area.

after

Why Paint Your Handrails?

Handrails are not just functional elements but also significant aesthetic components of your home's architecture. Over time, handrails can become worn out, chipped, or discolored due to exposure to the elements. Painting your handrails not only enhances their appearance but also provides essential protection against rust, corrosion, and weathering.

Sophisticated entryway with wainscoting and new paint

NYC Wall Paneling and Molding Contractor 

When you’re hungry, you get something to eat. If you acquire a bunny, you buy a rabbit hutch. And once you have lived in a place for a whole year and discover how much wear and tear the entry gets, plus how boring it really is, well, you call us at Paintworks. From there, you choose new colors, and we make the entry - or exit - depending which way you are going - a more pleasant place to drop off or pick up your shoes, keys, jacket, umbrella, day pack and such.

For this family in the Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, we custom cut and installed classy new wall paneling on one side. That was painted with Benjamin Moore’s Silent Night, a medium gray with a touch of dignity. The doors, frames and walls were then covered with Benjamin Moore’s Pelican Gray, the next shade lighter. We used eggshell and satin finish paints for easy cleaning, and the whole family finds going out and coming home much more attractive and enjoyable.

Boring entryway before molding and paint

DUMBO Painting Company

Preparing a home for sale means doing a lot of things like deep cleaning, de-cluttering, de-personalizing and washing the windows, but top on the list for almost everyone – seller and buyer alike - is fresh paint. Clean walls and trim, white ceilings and smooth vertical surfaces where prospective buyers can envision their décor can even be the tipping point for an offer. The condos at One John Street on DUMBO’s waterfront in Brooklyn Bridge Park offer amenities that rival a 5-star resort. There are 42 exquisite residences in 2, 3, and 4-bedroom floor plans, and the building has the coveted LEED Gold Certification for energy and environmental design.

 We are the preferred painters for these sophisticated condo homes, which have just about the best views of Manhattan in all of Brooklyn. We love working here, and especially enjoyed preparing this residence as “show ready” to go on the market. There was some patching to be done, which we expertly addressed before painting. The Extra White paint choice from Sherwin-Williams conveys goodness, youthfulness and tranquility. The walls are eggshell for easy to keep clean without glare, and the trim was painted the same color in semi-gloss. We doubt this lovely place with its marvelous views will stay on the market very long.

NYC Home Interior Painting

The English scientist Michael Faraday [1791-1867] contributed to the study of electromagnetism and is credited with discovering the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis. That’s complex stuff. But, in simplicity, Faraday observed: “Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.”

Living on the water in the Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass neighborhood, aka DUMBO, must elicit “new feelings of wonder” every day for the residents of this home. The East River is framed by large windows, and not wishing to take away anything from this awesome view, we were instructed to paint the walls with a soft wheat neutral. It’s the perfect complement to the blue (or gray) skies and the river, which really isn’t a river at all. It is a salt water tidal estuary between Upper New York Bay and Long Island Sound. But we digress. Painting inside this home was an exceptional experience for the view, and we know the residents love what we did inside, even if not quite as much as loving their ever-flowing, peaceful water outside.

Brooklyn Interior Residential Painting

Electricians are not painters, and we at Paintworks don’t wire electrical things. They do the wiring. We do the painting. So when a sharp Bedford-Stuyvesant resident had new lights installed, the electrician left some holes crudely patched and not painted. Right away we noted the uneven walls with rough patches and went to work. Of course, we removed or added as necessary the appropriate plaster to totally camouflage the holes. Then we sanded the walls for a sleek, uniform vertical surface.

We are able to computer match colors, and that’s how we achieved painting with the identical color on the walls. For good measure, we painted the trim as well with a nice, even finish. With this tall bay window, gorgeous wood flooring and period molding, this Brooklyn townhouse is once again a very inviting space to call home. The whole Bed-Stuy neighborhood has more than 8,000 pre-1900 structures which beckon city folks with touches of nostalgia and historical architecture. This client is very happy with the home’s refreshed, interior flair.