Freshly painted and wallpapered common hall space

Midtown East Co-Op Wallpaper Installation and Removal 

The advantages of wallpaper start with the almost unlimited styles, colors, shapes, prints and themes. Even if the upfront cost is a tad on the high side, today’s wallpapers can look as rich and perform as functional for 15 years or more. In this common space hallway, we removed some very old damaged wallpaper and applied and smoothed new plaster for a charming, neutral, chevron print.

We painted the ceiling, then brushed satin imprevo on the trim in Linen White. This premium, low luster product is formulated for excellence in leveling and concealing any small imperfections on the molding itself. Once all that was dry, we set up large table spaces for unrolling, cutting, pasting and preparing each wallpaper piece for precise application on the wall, making sure the designs matched at every seam. Hanging wallpapering is the perfect task for being fussy and finicky, and everyone on our team is just that on projects like this. How very cool for these co-op tenants to care enough to call in the very best - that’s us - to clean out, clean up, prime, paint, plaster, hang wallpaper, protect the floors and doors, tidy up and exceed expectations when it’s all done.

Freshly painted and ready for new wallpaper

Wallpaper cut n’ prep station

Wallpaper hanging, trimming, matching lines

Dingy, old, damaged wallpaper had to go

The job ahead of us.

The job in process.

The project nearing completion.

The very cool end result!

Uptown Co-op Wall Repair

A professionally textured wall can lend a gentle kind of rustic style, even in a stairwell or common hallway. In some cases, it camouflages imperfections that a smooth wall cannot, but overall it looks very cool except when the current coat of paint is flaking and falling off, revealing compromised plaster underneath and creating an eyesore for anyone walking the stairs or in the hallway. When a New York City co-op building determines that a stairwell needs some serious attention, many of them call us to evaluate the damage and prescribe the remedy.

 Here we had to scrape away old paint and plaster, vacuuming the debris with HEPA-filtered vacuum cleaners for the health and safety of residents and visitors. We applied a sophisticated plaster weld to ensure bonding before adding the decorative plaster in a way to match existing textures. Then our experienced painters fully primed the wall and added two coats of finish paint in Benjamin Moore’s Baby’s Breath white. Creating and painting textured walls is a skill and an art, and we like to think anyone traveling in this stairwell appreciates its fresh, new, polished look.

Condo and Co-op Door Painting

Residents all over New York City take pride in their homes, keeping up with paint, repairs, lighting, floors, wallpaper and kitchen and bath upgrades. Just as important to tenants and homeowners alike is having clean, well-maintained interior building spaces, too, like hallways, stairwells, exterior doors and entry and exit points. Here, we went right to work painting all the stairwells and lobbies for a bright and clean trek from the building front door to each condo front door.

 There are theories on color psychology and a front door’s emotional value. Without delving deeply into those, let it be seen that these front doors we painted black with fine detail in gold evoke elegance and power. Black is known for style, depth and mystery. Accenting with gold adds royalty, optimism and hope. Who wouldn’t want that for an entry into one’s private home retreat?! And at the end, we carefully re-installed all the numbers, so everyone knows which gorgeous door belongs to them.